Our visit from an author
An author called Sean Perkins came to visit us in school and shared his book called, ‘Oscar and Ben and the Birthday Party’. He shared the story, sang a song and taught the children how to draw one of the cat characters. The children loved the story and some even bought a signed copy of the book.
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The Little Red Hen make some bread
After reading the story of The Little Red Hen, the children made their own bread. They helped each other to mix the bread flour with the water, unlike the characters in the story. The bread was put in the oven and the children got to take it home when it was still nice and warm. Yummy!
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Local Poet Visit
Year 4 had a fabulous morning working with Lucy Burnett, a local poet. They read a range of poems written by different poets aloud and were able to respond about how each one made them feel. Lucy then shared lots of different ways to write poetry and showed us how much fun it is to be creative…
Local Poet Visits Year 5
Year 5 have had a fantastic afternoon working with local poet Lucy Burnett. They studied 3 different poems and were able to express which one they liked best and why. They learnt lots of new vocabulary and were able to use this in their own weather poems. They also went outside to gather their own…
Reception on the library bus
Reception had a visit to the library bus to change the books that we got last term. They each chose a book to read on the bus and then the librarian read them a story. At the end she let the Reception children scan their own books out. With a little support using the scanner they scanned the books…
Visual representations of text
Today Year 2 read a paragraph from the text The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker-Smith. They practised reading it in unison before using collage materials to create a visual representation of what it told them about the water cycle.
Year 5 Visit to Egremont Library
Year 5 visited Egremont Library today to choose a book. They read the blog to see if they were interested in the book and if they were they checked it out. They had some quiet time to enjoy reading their chosen book.
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…