Describing Rumpelstiltskin
The Bees have been reading traditional tales this half term such as Rumpelstilitskin. Today we sorted adjectives into appearance and character. We learned lots of new words such as furious and generous and had a lot of discussion about why Rumpelstiltskin was both...
Year 5 Macbeth Drama!
The last two weeks in year 5, we have been learning about Shakespeare and in particular his play, Macbeth. We were looking at the first 2 acts and began the topic by exploring the story and getting to know the characters. As children got more confident with the...
Perfect Pairs
This week in English we are learning all about our chosen author, Jill Murphy. We have enjoyed many stories written and illustrated by Jill Murphy in class, including 'Five Minutes Peace' which we have been focusing on for the last two weeks in our English lessons....
More Winter Activities
We have continued to focus on our Winter topic this week. We made some beautiful paintings of snowflakes which we have displayed in nursery. By reading our Secretes of Winter book , we learned what an evergreen tree is and during our Friday outdoor session we explored...
Romeo and Juliet Drama in Year 6
Over the past couple of weeks, Year 6 have been reading and enjoying Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. This week, we developed our speaking and listening skills by acting out the fight scene between Tybalt, Mercutio and Romeo. The hall became our theatre and...
Fantastic phonics in the Bees!
Bees have been focusing on their spellings. Our phonological awareness is fantastic! Today we used the aplhabet to help us find -ull words. We followed this up by brainstorming ay, ing, all and at words. We are getting very fast! Article 29: Your education...
Owls enjoy Five Minutes Peace
In English this week the children have enjoyed reading the text Five Minutes Peace by Jill Murphy. They looked at enriched vocabulary from the text and matched it to the correct meaning, sequenced the story using pictures then read the text to match to the correct...
Welcome New Nursery Friends!
We have had a great first week back in nursery and have been as busy as ever! We have welcomed some new friends who have settled really well. We have continued to take turns at being a Special Helper and work together by communicating with each other to complete tasks...
Christmas Service at St. Alban’s
On Tuesday, Years 3-6 delivered a superb Christmas Nativity Service at St. Alban's Church. Our actors, speakers, singers and Sign Squad all played their parts wonderfully well. The church was packed and the congregation was certainly impressed with the quality of the...
Excitable Edgar shared writing in Owls
Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 17: You have the right to get information that is important to your well-being,...
Christmas is Coming!
We have had another super busy week in nursery preparing for Christmas! We completed our snowmen Christmas cards which not only look fantastic they were great fun to make and incorporated counting, creativity, communication skills, social skills, self-help skills and...
More Christmas Preparations in Nursery
This week we have completed our calendars, made reindeer food to sell at the school fair, practised our Christmas sing-a-long and made a special hat to wear for our sing-a-long. We have incorporated maths and phonics into our Christmas preparations. For example we...