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...
Happy New Year! Year 5 have had a wonderful start to the new year. The children have been incredibly busy the last two days. In English, they re-capped what they learnt in the previous half term. The children also worked in small groups with an adult to complete a...
This week, as part of the Northern Children’s Book Festival, our Year 1 and Year 2 pupils had the wonderful opportunity to meet a real author! Nishani Reed, writer of the delightful children’s book No Cheese Please!, joined us to share her story and inspire our young...
In Year 1, we have been learning about verbs and using them to write instructions for baking gingerbread cookies, inspired by our story The Gingerbread Man.. The children enjoyed mixing the ingredients together, cutting the different shapes with the cutter and of...
We are delighted to share that we have become a Little Wandle Champion School! This means our school has met the Little Wandle Standards of Excellence in the teaching of early reading and phonics. We will now be working closely with Little Wandle to share the...