This week was Book Week and Reception class have taken part in lots of fun reading activities throughout the week. We invited our parents into the classroom to share some of our favourite book and new stories. We had visitors from The library service to read us a...
This week we have been celebrating World Book Week in school. On Tuesday, we visited Dunston library where we looked at how the books were organised and then had the opportunity to choose a book to take back to school with us. Today, we came to school dressed as a...
This morning, Year 4 were thinking about Mental Health Week. The children listened to the Story 'The Day the Crayon's Quit' and thought about the feelings of each of the crayons and how they were feeling. After considering all of their emotions, the children thought...
This half term in English, Year 3 are reading the novel ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. At the beginning of the week, we read the first chapter and explored the description of the Iron Man. In the coming weeks, we are going to use the text to write a set of instructions...
What a wonderful last day of term we have had! This morning, we celebrated the children who had achieved between 98%-100% attendance in a celebration assembly. Across the day, the children have enjoyed watching Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone movie (along...
Our last written piece of English work this half term has been linked to ‘The Nativity Story’. The children wrote diary entries, portraying the role of Joseph. In their writing, they wrote in chronological order and also included; contractions, parentheses, personal...