This afternoon in school, the children from Key Stage 2 were visited by Steve from The Northern Children’s Book Festival. First, he asked us what we already knew about the job of an author and illustrator. He then asked if we have heard of the author Dr Seuss and what...
English
Lunchtime Library Club
A very successful first week of lunchtime library club led by Mrs Fraser and our Year 5 and 6 pupil librarians! We welcomed children from across the school to enjoy reading together in our newly-revamped library. Our librarians were fantastic reading ambassadors,...
St Aidan’s Library
Last week, we were finally able to visit our recently-revamped library which we have been very excited about! Before the summer holidays, Mrs Fraser asked our opinions of the library and although children shared that there was a fantastic range of fiction, non-fiction...
Frieze Frames
As part of our Ancient Greek myths topic in English, we have been reading and discussing Odysseus and the Cyclops. We sequenced images of the story, verbally retelling the story in partners. Then in groups, we created a frieze frame for different key events using our...
Sleeping Beauty Drama
In English this week, we found out that our next fairytale we would be focusing on this half term would be ‘Sleeping Beauty’. In groups, we annotated what we already knew about the fairytale. We focused on characters, beginning, dilemma, how the dilemma is solved and...
National Poetry Day
This week in Year 3 we have been celebrating National Poetry Day. Throughout the week we have focused on performance poetry and have thought about different ways in which a variety of poems can be performed. We had a go at learning a poem called ‘Ocean Rhyming’ off by...