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...
Christmas has started in Nursery!
This week, we have focused on the story, Bear Stays Up which tells the tale of a bear struggling to stay awake in the lead up to Christmas. However, with the help of his friends and some teamwork he succeeds to stay awake. We have had a great time using props to...
Year 5 poetry!
Last week, Year 5 learnt all about poetry. At the start of the week, we had explored a number of war poems and began to unpick the features that are commonly used e.g. simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration etc. Children then created their own word banks and used...
Another busy week in Nursery!
We have continued to focus on the book, You be You and independently produce fish themed artwork as well as sculpting fish from play dough. Some of our children made their own register this week after observing the adults in nursery which led to other children making...
You be You!
On Monday, we participated in 'Odd Socks Day' and attended nursery wearing a pair of odd socks. We also designed a collage pair of odd socks at the creative table and clipped two socks together at the finger gym table with a peg to make a pair. To continue the...