It was lovely to take some of our crew coin winners to visit a local care home this morning. The children enjoyed sharing stories, listening to stories and make the elderly community smile. We met a special four legged visitor too! #LovePlover
Category : English
Working Hard
Well done to the boys in green phonics group who were working hard on reading correctly and speedy in their phonics this morning. #LovePlover
Getting Smart
We are looking forward to the next Young Readers event.
A few weeks ago, we were visited by staff from Amazon who launched their Young Readers event with us. We listened to a great story about super heroes then designed our own super hero in small groups. We even got to dress a person from each group up as the super hero that we designed! It was great fun!
Later on, every child was lucky enough to be able to choose a book to keep. There was a huge selection to choose from and everyone seemed to enjoy their choice as they relaxed with a biscuit and quiet book reading time…
The next event is next week…I can’t wait! I love books.
Mrs Haycock
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Where are you Wolfy?
Last week we had a very special visitor from the book ‘The Great Fairytale Disaster’. We noticed wolf footprints in the classroom and saw videos of Wolfy around our playground. We have a few letters Wolf had written and the children wanted to help. They wrote kind messages to Wolf, made him food and built him a house to live in as his had been blown down! #LovePlover
Pompeii and Pebbles
This week we have been learning about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD that buried the city of Pompeii.
We read the book ‘Escape from Pompeii’ and acted out some role plays as the main characters.
We have also been learning about rocks and the rock cycle this week, which culminated in our very own ‘Rock Museum’. We made posters to describe the rocks on display and the toured round looking at the different types of rocks and their properties. Who would have thought the rubble under our feet could be so interesting!
Mrs Graves
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Expert visitor
We loved having Catharine back in from the National Literacy Trust. She shared our key text ‘The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster’ with the children and enjoyed singing a range of rhymes. Catharine very kindly brought all the children a copy of Goldilocks and the three bears to take home as well, to share with their families.
Mrs Williams
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Expert Author and Illustrator: Phil Sheppard
Reading Superstars
The children in my Reading group have been working so hard with their reading fluency and comprehension and together have read over 1,250,000 words!
Today we had a fruit party to celebrate and the children had a great time.
We’re already working towards our next target of 1,500,000 and planning our next reward.
Mrs Lewis
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LKS2 Young Readers – Books, Biscuits and Superheroes!
Today, we were so pleased to welcome volunteers from Amazon into our school for our first Young Readers event.
The volunteers shared a quiz and a story with the children and then challenged them the create their very own Superhero.
Everyone was so engaged in the task, as paper and tape were turned into capes and masks! It was great to hear how imaginative the children were , when coming up with their superhero names and super powers.
This was followed by a visit to our magical book room, where children were able to select a book of their choice to take home. Everyone was so excited and couldn’t wait to get started reading their book – so that’s just what we did – with a biscuit of course.
A huge ‘Thank You’ goes to all the Amazon volunteers, who delivered their workshops with real pizazz, and another ‘Thank you’ goes to the National Literacy Trust’s Young Readers Programme and Vicki, who made it all happen.
This is the first of three event that we are so lucky to be able to share with Year 3 and 4 this summer. We can’t wait for the next one in a few weeks.
Mrs Graves
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