Blog by Tag: Communication Language and Literacy

Hi everybody,

I hope you are all enjoying our new topic - dinosaurs! I love the research you have done this week and look forward to hearing what else you find out over the coming weeks. Have a look at each other’s work below. Tyler and Kristen have added questions to their fact files for you…

Good news in the post this week. Mrs James Rebound refresher training certificate has arrived.

Thank you to Miss Della Fera, Mrs Brereton and Mr Flavell for helping Mrs James produce the videos to enable her to complete and pass the course.

I couldn’t of done it without your…

Secondary pupils who have been in school this week have been busy doing lots of fun activities and learning. Robyn created a wonderful ‘stay at home, stay safe’ rainbow to thank all NHS staff and key workers! We have done some fun maths and English learning, looking at how to create letters and…

11R have been communicating in all different ways this week.

some have drawn pictures, some have emailed on Purple Mash and others have used mobile devices to send social media messages and texts.

It is so important at this time that we stay in touch. 

Make sure you reach…

Willow class celebrated Rainbow Day by wearing bright clothes to create a class rainbow and learning all about how people are different.

We discussed how rainbows have lots of different colours that all come together to make something brilliant- just like all our friends making one…

Today we all came in different coloured clothes for Rainbow Day but we didn’t really understand why. We had a discussion about LGBT History Month and why it is important that we celebrate Rainbow Day. We learnt what LGBT stands for and what the words mean. We then played a circle time game,…

Today 7R celebrated “History day” as we missed it last week due to our Calvert residential trip. We have had a fantastic day!

This morning, Mrs Crouch split us into research teams. Each team was given research questions to find out the answer to. The teams had to delegate roles to decide a…

This week Willow learnt all about how we can stay safe on different games and websites when we are on our computers and iPads! 
We discussed what information we could share on the internet (e.g. a cartoon avatar and code name on a game) and what information we only tell friends and family. We…

Last Thursday was our first history day of the year and all primary phase classes learnt about the Victorians.

Willow class learnt all about what it was like to be a child in the Victorian era, looking at Victorian schools and workhouses for children. The children loved learning about all the…

Today 7R have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We spent the morning reading a story that taught us about the animals that the years are named after. We used masks to act out the story once we had listened to it and practiced playing parts by thinking of something the different animals…

We visited Devonshire Road Park today, it was a little cold, wet and windy but it didn't stop us having a brilliant trip. We went on the slides, swings, roundabouts, climbing frames, balancing beams trampoline and even made some music using the equipment. A group of children wanted to play…

Welcome back and a Happy New Year!

7R have lots to look forward to this term. Our new theme is "Food, Glorious, Food". 

Communication, Language and Literacy

In our "Communication, Language and Literacy" lessons we will be exploring the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald…