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Hedgehog experts
Year 1 become hedgehog experts in the Autumn term. We researched hedgehogs and write our own fact files. At the end of the week we presented our report to the rest of the class.
The Fantastic Book Awards Launch
Year 5 and 6 pupils had a great time today at the launch of the FBA (The Fantastic Book Awards), where we looked at new books over a glass of grape juice and a few nibbles! Run by the Lancashire Schools' Library Service, the FBA is an annual book event designed to...
Year 4 Water voles reports
Year 4 share their water vole reports! Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed sharing their water voles reports that they have worked hard on all this week, with children from Year 1. It was a real pleasure to see the enthusiastic way they described the river dwelling mammal to...
Where the wild things are…
English in Year 2Year two have been reading the story ‘Where the Wild Things are’. This week we have been sequencing the story and discussing the main events. We were very good at retelling the story in our own words.
We love Reading in Year 2
Who doesn’t love a good book? Well Year 2 certainly do! We have read a lot of our reading spine books this year and we have said what we like and don’t like about them. The most popular was ‘The Twits’. We are looking forward to the next book! I wonder what it will...
Story Writing in Year 2
This half term we have written a lot of stories inspired by African Folktales, including ‘How the elephant got his trunk’, ‘Why monkey’s swing in trees’ and ‘Tortoise’s Gift’. We have also enjoyed learning about African animals and created our own fact...
Step with boys Quality Award 2018
We are very proud to have been presented with the Step with Boys Quality Award this week. This award is in recognition of work undertaken in Reception to encourage boy’s writing. Mrs Dixon and Mr O’Beirne have commented the programme has had a real impact on the boy’s...
Literacy Live 2018
What an amazing day we had on Friday. The children took part in lots of different workshops – Shakespeare, wise up drama, poetry, performance rap, storytelling, creative writing to name a few! Thank you to all the parents who joined us after school too.
