English
Through the study of English, St Aidan’s pupils will develop a joy of reading. They will learn to express themselves clearly and with confidence – both orally and in writing – using standard English. They will develop the skill to listen to others and reflect upon their own ideas to become effective communicators.
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For more information about our phonics scheme, the teaching of reading and a list of common exception words for each year group, click on this link: https://staidanscofe.org/teaching-of-reading/
Northern Children’s Book Festival
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...
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...
National Poetry Day Celebrations
Our unit of work this week in English was Performance Poetry. We listened to, rehearsed and performed a number of poems about plastic pollution. We enjoyed working in groups to decide on the different techniques that we were going to use when performing the poem 'Just...
Poetry Week
This week, we celebrated Poetry Day on Thursday 3rd October. Each class in school were asked to learn a poem throughout the week. This was when performed in front of the rest of the school and to the children’s parents and carers at the end of the school day. Our poem...
Our School Councillor Speeches
Today in class, the children who had prepared and planned their school councillor speeches had the chance to speak to their peers about why they should be chosen as Year 5 school councillor. The children showed so much confidence! We have so many children who have put...
Our Year 5 Collective Worship Assembly
This morning, Year 5 took part in their first collective worship assembly of the year. The theme for our assembly was ‘Kindness.’ First, as a whole school, we sang a hymn called ‘Who put the colours in the rainbow?’. We chose this hymn because we as children, a school...