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Bonfire Vocabulary
In Year 2, we have been reading different Bonfire Night poems. We use the rhyme 'Remember, remember the 5th November....'. We talked about how we can remember new things? We thought actions would help us to learn new vocabulary that we can use in our poems. Below are...
Made the Moon visit to Sunderland point
Year 5M took part in a series of different workshops, linked to the text Made by the Moon, recently when they visited Sunderland point as part of our work with the Morecambe Bay partnership. In the summer term, as part of the curriculum, the children used the text by...
Gnomeo and Juliet
For Shakespeare Week in March, Year 2 learned about a famous play called Romeo and Juliet. We started by have a playtime! However, there were special rules to follow - greens had to keep away from the reds. No talking, playing or sharing was allowed between the two...
The Storm Whale
Year 2 have been reading stories linked to our local area of living on the coast. We have looked at The Storm Whale by Benji Davies and Dear Greenpeace by Simon James. We looked at the character of Noi from The Storm Whale in detail. Noi found a whale washed up on the...
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes in Year One
Over the last couple of weeks Year One have been reading the story 'Mr Wolf's pancakes' by Jan Fearnley. We loved the ending. We have been writing about Mr Wolf's feelings and adding -ing o verbs to show what Mr Wolf was doing. Have a look at some of our writing. Well...
What is the Read Write inc Phonics programme we are using in school?
The link below gives parents an overview of our Read Write inc phonics scheme used in school - watch the video and if you have any questions ask a member of staff or Mrs Lupton who is our Read Write inc Reading leader in school. ...
Read Write Inc Learning Set 1 and 2 sounds – Sound Pronunciation
Follow the link below to the short film to help you and your child with the correct pronunciations of the Set 1 and 2 sounds used in our Read Write inc programme. https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/resources/watch/373/ ...
William Wordsworth ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’
Today marks 250 years since the birth of the poet William Wordsworth. Year 6 studied some of his poetry earlier this year. He took his inspiration for one of his most famous poems 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' (sometimes know also as Daffodils) whilst walking with...
