This week Year 3 have enjoyed celebrating World Book Week. We started off our week by walking to Dunston Library to have a look around before choosing a book to bring back to school and read. We were able to look at how the library was organised and learnt about the...
On the last day of term in Spring 1, Year 5 led their very own collective worship in front of the rest of the school as well as their parents and carers. The theme for their collective worship was based on ‘Chinese New Year’. We spoke about how Chinese New Year is the...
Year One have enjoyed exploring What the Ladybird Heard this half term in English. Through shared reading, drama, and discussion, children built vocabulary and confidence. They planned and wrote their own narratives, imagining new adventures for the clever ladybird....
On Friday morning in English, Year 5 began planning the writing of a formal letter. Our piece of writing this half term is based on ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. The children are writing a letter, pretending to apply for a job on board Shackleton’s ship, ‘The Endurance’, to...
Today, two children from Year 5 and two children from Year 6 were selected to take part in an Able Writer's Day at Kelvin Grove Primary School. Once we arrived, we were greeted by the author Thomas Rodgers. The children were set away with a task to demonstrate their...
This half term in literacy, we are reading The Tunnel by Anthony Browne. This week, we have been taking part in a range of listening and speaking activities to help us become familiar with the text. We made predictions about what might be in the tunnel and...