Developing the “Storyteller Voice” with Elvis the Elf

6th November 2025Abigale Crawford

This week, our children have been diving into the delightful story of Elvis the Elf. As we’ve been reading, the focus has been on developing fluency â€” reading smoothly, with expression, and understanding the meaning behind the words.

Today, we took this a step further by introducing something special: the Storyteller Voice

The storyteller voice helps bring a story to life! It’s how readers use expression, tone, and pacing to make the story more engaging for the listener. For example, when Elvis feels excited or surprised, our voices might sound brighter or faster. When something mysterious happens, our voices might slow down and become softer.

By using their storyteller voices, children are not only making their reading more interesting to hear, but also deepening their understanding of the characters and events in the story. Thinking about how Elvis might sound, or why a moment feels happy, sad, or funny, helps them connect more deeply with the text.

You can support this at home by:

  • Encouraging your child to read aloud to you, using their storyteller voice.
  • Taking turns reading different characters or sections.
  • Talking together about how the story made you feel and why the characters might act or speak a certain way.

We’re so proud of how confidently the children are growing as expressive, thoughtful readers. Elvis the Elf has certainly helped us sprinkle a little storytelling magic into our reading this week! 

KS1 Attendance Matters

16th October 2025Stuart Longley

As we approach the end of a fantastic first half term, we would like to recognise some amazing attendance achievements across KS1!

Tomorrow, children who have achieved good, great or awesome attendance will receive their attendance postcard.

Our target for GREAT attendance is 97%

Year 1 – 93% Attendance

17 Children have AWESOME attendance (100%)

11 Children have GREAT attendance (98% and 97%)

1 Child has GOOD attendance (95%)

Year 2 – 96% Attendance

27 Children have AWESOME attendance (100%)

11 Children have GREAT attendance (98% and 97%)

1 Child has GOOD attendance (95%)

Thank you for your invaluable support in ensuring your child’s excellent school attendance.

Fantastic Home Learning!

14th October 2025Abigale Crawford

A huge well done to Isaac, who has been a real hero in our community with his little sister. They have been litter picking around the area. He has also been a hero in his house, helping keep his bedroom tidy and making his own bed. Keep it up Isaac!

Also, to share some of the wonderful home learning going on around our Great Fire of London topic. Well done for Hana and her fantastic tudor style house. Well done to Paizlee for her fantastic posters too. Amazing! Well done to Edith too, for her poster!

If you have any pictures that you would like to share with us, we would love to see what you are getting up to and celebrating your wonderful achievements! If you would like to share, please could you send them via email.

KS1 Pride of Plover

14th October 2025Mr Pickering

Congratulations to this week’s Pride of Plover winners. We heard a lot about respect this week, which was the character trait that was being focused on. It was brilliant to hear how our winners showed respect in many different ways – to their friends, to adults and even to the learning! Well done, everyone!

#LovePlover

What can you see?

13th October 2025Abigale Crawford

This morning Year 1 received a letter from Rosa Parks asking if they would help her remember what happened on the bus. The children worked collaboratively to write their own labels and stick them to a picture from the scene.

World Mental Health Day

10th October 2025elister

We have celebrated World Mental Health Day completing some of our favourite activities. The children wore yellow and the activities we have explored help us to regulate ourselves and keep us calm such as blowing bubbles, calm breathing, colouring, jigsaws, arts and crafts and exercising our bodies.

KS1 Pride of Plover

5th October 2025Mr Pickering

Well done to this week’s Pride of Plover winners in Key Stage 1. We loved hearing about your courage in your learning. Whether this was through challenging yourself to try something harder and being brave to have a go at something new. Well done everyone!

#LovePlover

We are ARTISTS!

4th October 2025Abigale Crawford

This week we have been working very hard on our painting skills. We learned about the different parts of the paint brush (the toe, the ferrule and the handle). We then talked about Primary and Secondary colours and how they can be made. We then created our own colour wheels.

The next day we talked about how colours can represent mood; talking about warm colours and cool colours. We painted a sun and moon; deciding which colours would be most appropriate.

Today we have created a final piece of art to end our journey, learning about the Great Fire of London. The children talked about the warm colours representing the fire. We used a sponge to create an ombre effect for the background, making sure to dab to make it appear textured. The children then used their best cutting skills to cut out a design to represent the houses.

TADA!

4th October 2025Abigale Crawford

Our beautiful gallery deserved a post of its very own. The children worked so hard to create the finished piece; they look wonderful! They were so proud of their work and we are so proud of them! Well done 1C.