The Nowhere Emporium

The burning question today is who will get the copies of the sequel to Class 6’s whole class read book. We have never seen children so enthused about a series before.

Reading Buddy Training

Today our new reading buddies had some training from their peers who ran demo sessions and offered some advice to help the sessions run smoothly. We can’t wait to get our new buddies out and about in school every morning.

Reading Newsletter – Autumn 2023

The Journey

We enjoyed looking at our hook reveal and making some amazing predictions on what our story could be about. What could all these items mean?

This term class 4 have the pleasure in reading “The Journey” by Francesca Sanna. This book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war.

Reading Buddies visit JMU

Some of our reading buddies were invited to John Moores University library to talk about reading and books with some Childhood Studies University students. They discussed some of the books in the library, why they selected them and their thoughts on the content and illustrations.

Author Event

Mental Health and Well-being Week

Today we have been very lucky to listen to Natalie Denny, Natalie went into amazing detail of her characters and what goes into writing a published book. We then had the pleasure of listening to the first chapter of Natalie Denny’s new book, Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature!

This book is about when Keisha discovers that the trees in a nearby park are going to be cut down to make way for a carpark, the Bee Squad has its next cause. It’s time for some green activism to save the VITs … that’s Very Important Trees!

Book Week in Reception

In Reception we were read a lovely story ‘Archie’s grand plan’ online by the author Ray Lowthian. Reception then drew a hat for Archie and pretended to be ants and anteaters. Thank you Ray for our lovely story.

World Book Day??

Class three have enjoyed world book day! It has been so fun and interesting seeing and hearing about each others costumes and favourite books?

World Book Day

We have had great discussions in class today on some interesting books and watched a live stream where the author John Patrick Green told us all about his ideas for his books and his inspiration for becoming an author.

World Book Day

The children wore some wonderful costumes and outfits today, as they celebrated World Book Day in style. There were superheroes in class, along with wizards and princesses! The children were also excited to take home their free book.

World Book Day

The children wore some wonderful costumes and outfits today, as they celebrated World Book Day. The children were also excited to take home their free book.

World Book Day

Reception celebrated world book day by reading the story Little Red Riding Hood this year, we had a fun day with lots of different activities such as role playing the story and sequencing the story in to order, we also made our own little red riding hoods.

Spine Building visit

Little Red

In English this term we are exploring the book “Little Red”. In our choose time the children have loved to dress up as all the characters in the story.

This week the children have been working so hard to write all about the story. Today for our sentence snake we wrote “Red went into the woods” the children worked independently to write their sentence, they did a fantastic job.

Michael Rosen Event

Class 3 enjoyed a trip to The Florrie on Friday to take part in poetry activities and to listen to Michael Rosen talk and recite some poetry. We took part in a workshop to create our own animal poems, played poetry games and listened to a man called George reading his favourite poems. We had a brilliant time and loved hearing some of our favourite poems including Chocolate Cake and No Breathing in Class!

Michael Rosen book signing!

Thank you!

We were so grateful to one of our Y6 pupils who decided to choose a selection of books for the school library to help other love reading as much as her. Thank you to you and your family for such a generous gift, we wish you every success for the future!

Oliver’s Vegetables

This week we have been reading Oliver’s Vegetables, we discussed what vegetables we already know and some new. To find out wether the children liked or disliked the vegetables we did a taste test.

Fantastic storyboard English work.

In English Reception have been reading and exploring the story ‘Juniper Jupiter’. Reception have drew pictures of what happened within the story on to a storyboard. Reception worked so hard to remember what parts of the story and what to draw.

Reading Buddies

Our reading buddies have enjoyed reading together again this year. Some pupils enjoyed sharing some brand new non-fiction books together, finding out lots of information about plants and flowers.

Comprehension

After reading our comprehension text, we worked together to label a diagram, using the information from the text to help.