Blog by Tag: English

Last Monday, Mr Darbyshire led our assembly and we learned about the traditional Hindu festival ‘The Holi Festival’. Some of us got to have a turn using powder paint to create colour clouds. 

Back in Oak class we explored colour through lots of activities. Miss Cross did an Attention…

Last Friday, Oak had their belated Rainbow Day and celebrated how we are all different. 

First we read the story ‘We Are All Different’. We took turns using mirrors to talk about how we all look and what we had that was the same or different. Oscar told us he had glasses and Tig said he…

What a fantastic day!!!

If you have been following our blogs you will know 10R have been studying David Walliams in parts of their English sessions. We have read some of his stories, looked at David himself and even written to him. One of the stories we first read together as a class was…

What a fantastic day we had celebrating World Book Day. We had a wonderful, busy, fun-filled day!

In Oak we had lots of wonderful characters walk through the door! We had a unicorn, sonic, dinosaurs, Mary Popins, a Cat, a Lion, a Princess, Shine, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hulk and…

We read the story of The Wizard of Oz. We focused on the story of the lion and learned about courage. We had a class discussion about times we need courage and what helps us get through.

some pupils identified that the lion didn’t drink a magic potion to have courage. The potion was a…

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…

10R had a brilliant surprise in the post recently!!!

Last term during our English sessions we all wrote letters to David Walliams to practice a range of skills. These included writing and forming sentences including conjunctions, formatting a letter, spelling and perfecting our handwriting…

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…

9G have been fantastic day being Romans today. In the morning we learnt all about Roman Mosaics, who had them and what they looked like. We then made our own Roman Mosaics using glue and different coloured seeds. In the afternoon we then learnt all about Roman soldiers, what life was like for them…

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…

Well done 9G! Today we all worked really hard to try and read lots of different books and look at all of the pictures all by ourselves whilst sat in the comfy seats at the library. We were all very well behaved and Miss Robertson and Miss Holden read lots of stories to everyone. Then at the end…

9G enjoyed a trip to McDonalds yesterday. We walked safely and talked about crossing safely and not talking to strangers. When we arrived We had a choice of chips or McFlurry and a drink. Everyone ordered their own choice, paid for it and collected their order showing some amazing independence and…