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/
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...
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...