May 19, 2022 | Early Years, English Activities, Science & Technology Activities
We’ve had great fun growing cress, sunflowers and beans and are really pleased with our plants. We enjoyed “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Jasper’s Beanstalk” and did some excellent independent writing in response. We built beanstalks...
May 17, 2022 | Arts Activities, English Activities, Year 1
This week Year 1 were again fortunate enough to attend an online session hosted by the Scottish Book Trust. Today’s event featured Mark Bradley, writer/artist of the comic book series, ‘Bumble and Snug’. The session began with Mark reading us the...
May 13, 2022 | Arts Activities, English Activities, Year 1, Year 2
This week in Key Stage 1 we were fortunate enough to attend an online session hosted by the Scottish Book Trust. They have free, regular events where various authors and illustrators talk to primary-aged children about their stories and how they began writing/drawing....
Mar 25, 2022 | English Activities, School News, Year 4
Recently, Year 4 have been doing some fantastic literacy work surrounding the book How to Train Your Dragon. Today, we have been lucky enough to join an event hosted by the Author of this book Cressida Cowell! In this event the author talked about her popular...
Mar 23, 2022 | English Activities, Year 6
In Year 6 for National Poetry Day we read together and annotated the poem ‘The Gentleman in Grey’ by Emily Huntington Miller It was an abstract poem in which the ‘gentleman’ is believed to actually be a mouse. We annotated the poem and...
Mar 7, 2022 | Arts Activities, English Activities, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Early Years enjoyed the books we shared on World Book Day. Reading stories is one of our favourite times of the day. Two of our children bumped into each other, when they went to the book store to spend their voucher. They even chose the same book! Year 1 had a...
