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Welcome Back! I hope that you have all had a wonderful break over the past 2 weeks and are ready for the term ahead.  The Summer Term is always a busy term in school with Year 6 and Year 2 SATs, phonics screening, school productions, trips and of course lots of learning. This half term we have 2…

In our English learning this week, we began by learning the correct way to use of hyphens when joining prefixes to a route word beginning with a vowel, for example, re-examine and co-ordinate.

We then moved onto our new writing genre, journalistic writing. We investigated the expected features…

Dyslexia

What is Dyslexia? 

Dyslexia covers a wide range of difficulties and it is unique for each individual. It causes difficulty in the skills needed for learning to read, spell and write; but it is much more than that. It can also cause issues with organisation or forgetting what someone…

Mental Health 

This week has been an important week in school for Social, emotional and mental health as it has been Children's Mental Health week.  Mental health affects around 1 out of 10 children and young people, and can be seen in many different ways.  It is important as a school that we…

Spelling 

This week have had the pleasure of looking through the children's books, and I was blown away by the progress that your children are making.  They are growing in confidence and this is clear to see in their learning.  Many children are now accessing their year group curriculum and…

What is Inclusion? 

I often get asked the question - What is Inclusion? Inclusion in it's simplest terms in Education is where all children are provided with an equal education despite of their individual needs. At Waterside, Inclusion seamlessly weaves through our school and is embedded in all…

A super final spring term week of learning in Dolphin Class!

Our English learning has seen us continue with our investigations of 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes. We began the week by polishing up out modal verbs understanding, before then working on our planning for an alternative…

The final week of our second Spring term has finally arrived. It has already been a super busy week with Y3 and Y4 preparing for their performance of ‘What’s the Crime Mr Wolf?’ We are all so excited to watch the children perform as they have worked so hard to prepare for this performance. We hope…

What a fantastic week we have had in Nursery this week! We have enjoyed talking about Easter and learning all about The Easter Story, as well as thinking about how Easter and Spring relate to each other. We were able to use The Easter Story to promote lots of good discussion and show our story…

In our English lessons, we have discussed the importance of planning and how this skill is necessary throughout our lives. Sharks then chose their own method to plan for their alternative perspective narrative, retelling ‘Wonder’.

This week in Duck class we have been looking at how people celebrate Easter. We took part in lots of different activities such as decorating eggs, learning about the Easter Story, traditional foods such as hot cross buns and chocolate eggs.It has been a very busy week and we wanted to…

Writing

This week in writing we moved on to our new genre of narrative writing. We discussed features which make narrative writing engaging, before discussing the features of ‘building suspense and tension’ in more detail, we discussed how ‘show not tell’ can make our writing more engaging and…