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...
English
Dear Diary…
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...
KS2 Nativity – ‘Straw and Order’
This week in school, the children across EYFS, KS1 and KS2 have performed their nativities in front of their parents and carers. KS2 performance was called ‘Straw and Order’, a lawfully good nativity, with a fun twist on the classic nativity story. The story begins in...
English – The Christmas Story
In English this morning, we found out that we would be concentrating on The Christmas Story, in preparation for us to write a diary entry towards the end of half term. In our lesson today, we focused on speaking and listening. We watched a video of The Christmas...
Writing our Non-Chronological Report
This week in English, we have been writing our draft and final piece of our non-chronological report about rivers. First, we all came up with a heading for our report. Some of our headers included; ‘The journey of a river’ or ‘All about rivers’. We then wrote an...
Scholastic Book Fair
This week, St Aidan's has hosted the Scholastic Book Fair for children and parents to browse and buy a range of popular children's books. On Friday, children were given the opportunity to browse the books throughout the school day before the book fair opened...