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Year 4 (Class 11) - English - Author Visit
Class 11’s first trip into the newly opened school library was introduced by best selling author James Nicol.
He told the children of where he got the inspiration for his latest book ‘The Spell Tailors’ and some other interesting memories about his life.
The children were all looking forward…
Category: Year 4
Year 3 (Class 9) - English - Author Visit
Today we were visited by James Nicol in our beautiful new library who shared his books with us and told us how he came up with all of his wonderful ideas.
He shared pictures of his life and told us how they influenced his characters and plot lines.
Category: Year 3
Year 4 (Class 10) - English - Charles Dickens
We have been working collaboratively to answer retrieval questions about Charles Dickens, who wrote Oliver Twist.
In our groups of 3, we each had a different section of information about his life such as his childhood or other jobs that he had.
We had to work together to find the answers to…
Category: Year 4
Year 3 (Class 10) - English - Charles Dickens
We have been working collaboratively to answer retrieval questions about Charles Dickens, who wrote Oliver Twist.
In our groups of 3, we each had a different section of information about his life such as his childhood or other jobs that he had.
We had to work together to find the answers to…
Category: Year 3
Year 2 (Class 5) - English - Author Visit
Yesterday, we had a visit from the author Bethan Woollvin.
We had a great time with her, she read her version of Rapunzel, year two really enjoyed it. Bethan then showed us how to draw the main characters.
We had a great time it was so exciting to meet a real author.
Category: Year 2
Year 6 (Class 16) - English - Characters
Class 16 have been looking at how characters feel in the text they are reading.
They have been plotting the characters emotions on a graph and then completing sentences justifying their reasons.
Category: Year 6
Year 6 (Class 15) - English - Handwriting
Mrs Dyer is very impressed with the attitude and dedication of some boys in class 15 who are working hard to improve their handwriting.
Well done.
Category: Year 6
Year 5 (Class 15) - English - Handwriting
Mrs Dyer is very impressed with the attitude and dedication of some boys in class 15 who are working hard to improve their handwriting.
Well done.
Category: Year 5
Year 6 (Class 16) - English - Titanic Book
Class 16 enjoyed reading the opening chapters of ‘I survived the sinking of the Titanic, 1912.’
Children used their inference skills to explain why characters might have behaved as they did and children also highlighted unfamiliar words and used the text around the words to explain the meaning…
Category: Year 6
Year 2 (Class 7) - English - Author Visit
Year 2 had an author visit. They listened to a twisted fairy tale by Bethan Woollvin, learnt about the process of writing and illustrating a book and learnt how to draw the characters.
We will be continuing to do work on her version of Rapunzel in class.
Category: Year 2
Year 1 (Class 3) - English - Alphabet Puzzle
Some children in class 3 decided to try the alphabet caterpillar puzzle today.
Myself and Miss O'Brien are very impressed with the teamwork they showed to complete it.
Category: Year 1
Year 4 (Class 11) - English - Oliver Twist Vocabulary
Class 11 worked in their collaborative pairs to find new vocabulary in a chapter of Oliver Twist.
We then discussed the new words and what we thought they meant by reading the sentence they were in.
Category: Year 4
