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7 March 2024

World Book Day

We have took part in lots of activities today to celebrate world book day. We sequenced the story, made caterpillar hats, had buddy reading with year 3 and ended out day with hot chocolate and biscuits and a lovely story. 
We had so much fun sharing our teddies, blankets and favourite books.…

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7 March 2024

Book in a Jar competition

We are amazed by the entries for our Book in a Jar competition. Our winner will be announced tomorrow!

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7 March 2024

World Book Day

We celebrate World Book Day by cosying up with a good book and a hot chocolate.

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23 February 2024

Book Club

Every Friday, we have our book club. In this session, we work together to share, read and discuss our favourite books.  

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21 February 2024

Talk for writing- Cave Baby

In book talk the children were looking at the story cave baby. We then completed a talk for writing activity where the children thought of a picture for each part of the story. We then retold the story from the beginning to the end using the pictures the children had decided upon. We love talk for…

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1 December 2023

Features of a book

This week we have been reading one of our treasure stories ‘What About Me’. We listened to the story and took part in extended discussions about the characters and key events in the story. 
To begin with we discussed the two features of a book we have been focusing on - the title and…

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24 November 2023

Resounding Reading!

We were so impressed by the children’s independent reading answers this week! They have worked so hard on using their own opinions in their answers but also being able to use the text to support their opinions too. Well done Year 5! 

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15 November 2023

Story Time

In our literacy adult Led this week, we have looked closely at one of our treasure books - We're Going on a Bear Hunt. We loved sitting down and listening to the story, we could even join in with familiar words/phrases in the book.

We have been focusing on 2 features of a book - The title and…

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11 October 2023

Role play - Whatever Next!

We have been looking at the story Whatever Next! and today we used masks and props to role play different parts of the story. We pretended to be baby bear getting ready for his trip to the moon, baby bear in his rocket ship, baby bear and owl having a picnic on the moon and then mother bear…

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6 October 2023

Finding evidence in Reading

In our Reading lessons, we have been learning how to agree or disagree with statements finding evidence from the text through skimming and scanning.

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29 September 2023

Exploring synonyms!

In our Reading lessons this week, we have read a non-fiction text all about rainforests! Y6 have engaged really well with this text and have enjoyed delving deeper into the reasons as to why our rainforests are at risk. As part of our Reading learning, we have focused on developing our…

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27 September 2023

Talk for writing - Whatever next

Today in reception we read the story Whatever next! and then retold the story through pictures and actions. The children loved coming up with their own ideas for how to retell the story through drawings. 

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