We have enjoyed our first English unit of the year – Rose Blanche. We have written diary entries and bravery award speeches; drawing on our World War Two knowledge. We have also worked hard this half term to peer edit our work by working in a group of three using the writer hints and editing key as a guide.
Year 6 were so excited to discover clues about their new book today. They ventured into the woodland area and found: a loaf of bread; an old lady; a house with farmland and a pile of fire wood. Do you know what our new story could be???
Our new book in Y6 is Hansel and Gretel – we are thrilled and can’t wait to see what Neil Gaiman’s version is all about!
Year 2 enjoyed our zoom with Lucy Farfort reading her book she has written and illustrated, In Our Hands. The children enjoyed designing their own character to help their community and showcasing their work to the rest of the class on the visualiser.
Well Done Year 2!
Year 1 enjoyed our zoom with JARVIS, we enjoyed hearing his story and learning to draw with him. It was very interesting!
Y6 attended a brilliant online session with Jeffrey Boakye! We learned all about the 1990’s and explored the characters and settings within his book, Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer.
As part of the Liverpool Learning partnership event, Year 4 had a virtual visit from Liverpool author Natalie Denny. She talked to us about her first book and what inspired her to become a writer.
We took part in a conscience alley activity trying to influence the woodcutter in the story.
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Nursery Class had lots of fun joining in with World Book Day celebrations.
Y6 enjoyed taking part in a World Book Day quiz today and played a great game of ‘Which book am I?’ It was great to hear so many Y6 children talking about their favourite authors and books!
Year 2 are very excited to have had a response from 10 Downing Street following our persuasive letters about stopping plastic pollution.
As part of our daily spelling lesson, we use “Supermovers”. It’s a fun way to learn spelling rules and exercise at the same time. Year 4 love it!
Year 4 have had a busy first week, we developed our own class charter, we picked articles from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that we thought we needed in our class. We created pictures of a famous Liverpool landmark using a variety of techniques (can you guess where it is?), consolidated our knowledge of 4-digit numbers using manipulatives, learned what partitive nouns are and found out that ‘Being different is the best thing ever!’ What a week!
Year 5 and 6 took part in a writing workshop led by children’s author Marie Basting. The children produced some fantastic stories during the workshop.
Year 5 spent their English lesson considering the thoughts and emotions of runaway slave Henry ‘Box’ Brown.
Y6 have worked hard to edit their diary entries today. They focused on the grammar and punctuation objectives and supported their friends to improve their work.
We have been using role play to explore why the Woodcutter and his wife left their children in the forest. We came up with lots of ideas and even persuaded the Woodcutter to change their mind!
Y6 enjoyed their first reading for pleasure club meeting. They have chosen to read ‘The Eye of the Wolf.’
Y6 took part in a live webinar session with Jacqueline Wilson today. She talked about the inspiration for her stories and discussed her books. We are excited to read more of her stories!
We carefully followed a set of instructions to make our very own healthy vegetable soup for snack. It tasted absolutely delicious!
Today as part of no pens day Y6 took part in a debate asking if money on space travel should be spent on people on Earth instead? There were lots of strong arguments on both sides. Well done Y6!
In Y6 we learned about Benjamin Zephaniah and his passion for poetry. We listened to some of his poems and worked in groups and as a class to perform ‘Talking Turkeys’.
During English, we analysed extracts from ‘The Girl of Ink and Stars’, identifying what language features make a good setting description.
We love looking at books and talking about what we can see on the pages. We can hold the books the correct way up and can carefully turn the pages.
Year five really enjoyed acting out the model text, it helped them to understand how the character reacted to his environment.
Nursery class had lots of fun using props to re-tell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
