Blog by Tag: English

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 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 enjoyed their visit to their local library. They are becoming increasingly independent by returning books themselves and withdrawing their next book to read. 

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…

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…

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…

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. 
 

Year 5 enjoyed recreating freeze frame scenes from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. We  then tried to guess which scene it was. 
 

Year 3 and 4 had a fantastic time at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. They watched their Christmas production of The Borrowers. What a marvellous show! They were amazed by how they made the actors seem like miniature people hiding under the floorboards. They enjoyed, singing, clapping, dancing along…

What a wonderful, memorable experience we all had at the theatre to watch the live performance of the much-loved classic tale The Borrowers, by Mary Norton! Thank you to Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, for their faultless hospitality and inviting us to to meet the cast. 
 

In Reception we read the story of the Gingerbread man during our topic, 'Once upon a time'. The children retold the story, acted it out and we then made our own gingerbread man. These ones had no chance to run away though as the children had eaten them all up!

In English the Year 2 children have been looking at the features of a formal invitation. Today they used their computing skills to create a template for a formal invitation that they will use in future lessons to write their own formal invitation.