Reception’s World Book Day
After reading our story of the week ‘Dear Zoo’, the children were given clues that we had to read to help them find the missing animals. The children worked as a team to find them all and even stopped the Big Bad Wolf from eating the puppy! The children came in dressed as their favourite character…
Y1 World Book Day
Year 1 loved celebrating World Book Day. We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters. In class we made our own poems and shared our work together. It was fun sharing our favourite stories and listening to new ones.
World Book Day in Year 2 2023
What a wonderful day we had in Year 2 for World Book Day! We used our class text ‘The Rhythm of the Rain’ to inspire us to create our own rhythm of the rain using body percussion. Then we read some more of the text pausing at the point where the main character, Issac, followed his jar to the…
World Book Day Y4 2023
For World Book Day, Year 4 studied the poem ‘Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou. First we found out about Maya Angelou, which helped us understand the poem. After reading the poem together, we discussed the central themes and messages of the poem and the different poetic devices and vocabulary used to…
World Book Day in Nursery
What a super day we have had celebrating world book day! We have read our favourite stories and came to Nursery dressed as our favourite characters too!
We have also had two special treats today! This morning we visited year 3 who read some of their favourite picture books and stories to us…
Year 5 World Book Day 2023
Year 5 have enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day 2023 and taking part in lots of book related activities. We designed a new book cover for the book we are reading ‘Boy in the Tower’ by Poly Ho-Yen. We also became synonym detectives and searched in the book for words with a similar meaning to the…
Year 1 Visit Bowness-on-Windermere
Year 1 enjoyed an action packed day in Bowness-on-Windermere. First, we visited The World of Beatrix Potter. In English we have been reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit so it was amazing to learn more about the author and the other stories she created. We enjoyed getting up close with the different…
Year 4’s Spring Term Library Visit
Year 4 enjoyed their visit to their local library. They are becoming increasingly independent by returning books themselves and withdrawing their next book to read.
Visiting Egremont Library
On Thursday 2nd February Year 1 enjoyed visiting Egremont Library. Tracey the Librarian explained all about her job. We learnt we could borrow a book and then return it in 3 weeks time. We enjoyed exploring fiction and non-fiction. After we had enjoyed sharing books we checked out the book we had…
Exploring Non Fiction
This week Year 2 have started to read ‘The Street Beneath My Feet’ by Charlotte Guillain in their reading lessons. They were amazed to find out about what is going on deep in the ground under their feet and we’re even more surprised at how the pages unfolded in front of them. What a fascinating…
Year 2 Library Visit
This afternoon Year 2 visited Egremont Library to return their books and choose new ones to borrow. They had lots of fun sharing books with each other whilst choosing the books they would take home. The visit ended with a whole class story about a wolf who liked to bake. What an interesting take…
Reading Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
In our reading lessons Year 1 have had such a wonderful time reading the heritage text ‘Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit’. We have been practising using our pace and volume to emphasise the story. Soon we will enjoy a trip to ‘The World of Beatrix Potter’ to see the story come to life.