Image of Year 5 - English - Reading Plus Work
11 December 2025

Year 5 - English - Reading Plus Work

Children in years 5 and 6 are always working on their reading fluency using Reading Plus.

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Image of Year 6 (Class 15) - English - Theseus and the Minotaur
8 December 2025

Year 6 (Class 15) - English - Theseus and the Minotaur

Mr Needham was very impressed with the work children in Mrs Smith’s reading group completed on Theseus and the Minotaur.

Children completed questions on fact retrieval, inference, word meaning, summary and structure.

Mr Needham and the children discussed their answers and recapped skills…

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Image of Year 1 (Class 4) - English - Bonfire Night Poem
28 November 2025

Year 1 (Class 4) - English - Bonfire Night Poem

Class 3 and 4 have enjoyed learning all about bonfire night.

They made up their own bonfire night poems and performed them for each other.

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Image of Year 1 (Class 3) - English - Bonfire Night Poem
27 November 2025

Year 1 (Class 3) - English - Bonfire Night Poem

Class 3 and 4 have enjoyed learning all about bonfire night.

They made up their own bonfire night poems and performed them for each other.

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Image of Year 1 (Class 3) - English - Nouns
27 November 2025

Year 1 (Class 3) - English - Nouns

Class 3 really enjoyed looking for nouns in the classroom and then working with a partner to write them down.

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Image of Year 2 (Class 5) - English - Armley Library Visit
25 November 2025

Year 2 (Class 5) - English - Armley Library Visit

Class 5 enjoyed their visit to Armley library, where they watched a performance of 'All the world were...' by Joseph Coelho.

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Image of Year 6 (Class 15) - English - Exploring Kirkstall Abbey for Scary Story Inspiration
20 November 2025

Year 6 (Class 15) - English - Exploring Kirkstall Abbey for Scary Story Inspiration

Our Year 5 and Year 6 pupils had an unforgettable experience visiting the historic Kirkstall Abbey as part of their creative writing project.

The trip was designed to spark imagination and help the children gather ideas for their own scary stories.

During the visit, the children explored the…

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Image of Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Exploring Kirkstall Abbey for Scary Story Inspiration
20 November 2025

Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Exploring Kirkstall Abbey for Scary Story Inspiration

Our Year 5 and Year 6 pupils had an unforgettable experience visiting the historic Kirkstall Abbey as part of their creative writing project. The trip was designed to spark imagination and help the children gather ideas for their own scary stories.

During the visit, the children explored the…

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Image of Year 6 (Class 16) - English - Exploring Kirkstall Abbey for Scary Story Inspiration
19 November 2025

Year 6 (Class 16) - English - Exploring Kirkstall Abbey for Scary Story Inspiration

Our Year 5 and Year 6 pupils had an unforgettable experience visiting the historic Kirkstall Abbey as part of their creative writing project.

The trip was designed to spark imagination and help the children gather ideas for their own scary stories.
During the visit, the children explored the…

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Image of Year 2 (Class 6) - History / Literacy - Skipton Castle
14 November 2025

Year 2 (Class 6) - History / Literacy - Skipton Castle

Class 6 have just visited Skipton Castle as part of their history and literacy topics.

When they arrived they met their tour guides and learnt all about the castles history. They went inside and found maker marks on the stone, learnt about murder holes, where the drawbridge would have been and…

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Image of Year 4 (Class 10) - English - Play Scripts
22 October 2025

Year 4 (Class 10) - English - Play Scripts

In Class 10, we have been writing play scripts in English. 

In groups, we have planned and written a scene from a book or film, thinking about stage directions and body language, as well as what the characters will say. 

We can't wait to perform them tomorrow!

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Image of Year 2 (Class 6) - English - The Paper Bag Princess
17 October 2025

Year 2 (Class 6) - English - The Paper Bag Princess

Class 6 have been reading The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, and we finally read the ending of the story.

It turns out one of the main characters isn’t very nice and the children explained why using a stem sentence for support and explained using ‘because’.

They have loved the story…

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