Reading

World Book Day in Year 5

World Book Day in Year 5

We’ve had the most wonderful World Book Day! We started the day with a word search and a bookmark design. Then, we joined a live quiz on zoom - in collaboration with the Premier League - and answered quiz questions. We were in a battle against hundreds of schools...

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Descriptive Imagery

Descriptive Imagery

Today, year 5 began their new English topic. They will be spending the next few weeks writing setting descriptions, based on illustrations. Before we were introduced to the book (FArTHER), Miss Steel read the first page to us. We closed our eyes so we could...

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A Love of Reading

A Love of Reading

  Yesterday, our Nursery class had a wonderful time listening to a Year 4 guest reader share an exciting story. Year 4 guest readers always bring lots of joy with their storytelling!...

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Tuck Shop at Stella

Tuck Shop at Stella

Today, we had a Tuck Shop in our School where Stella Extreme Readers could exchange their hard earned reading points for small treats, such as stickers or books. We are so proud of our Extreme Readers! Please keep reading everyone! We would love to see even more...

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Maisie Chan

Maisie Chan

Last week an award winning author, Maisie Chan, visited our school and delivered an interesting workshop for Year 3. Maisie talked about her series Tiger Warrior, she taught the children about the Chinese Zodiac animals and their superpowers. Then, the children...

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Performance Poetry

Performance Poetry

The class have been studying poetry and have given an excellent recital of "From a Railway Carriage" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The children analysed the poem before practising their verses and actions....

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A woolly mammoth?!

A woolly mammoth?!

Another unexpected visitor made an appearance in school, but this time it was a woolly mammoth! It left in a hurry but left us a new book to read together. We can see it’s quite a challenge to wash a woolly mammoth. Year 1 are going to explore the features of...

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Poetry – Nut Tree

Poetry – Nut Tree

As part if our nature poetry study we have enjoyed learning and performing Julia Donaldson’s ‘Nut Tree’. We started this unit by reading the poem together and understanding the story of the poem. We then worked in small groups to rehearse the poem. We performed to...

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Goldilocks and the 3 bears

Goldilocks and the 3 bears

Our first class text that we explored together was Goldilocks and the three bears. It all started with a visit from a mysterious character who left a mess and a note for us to find. We solved the mystery and explored her story. Through this unit of work we learned...

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Leaf Man

Leaf Man

Our current class text is Leaf Man. We have enjoyed reading the story together and talking about what leaf man could see on his journey. We have spent time looking at signs if autumn outside and have collected different leaves to create our own leaf...

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Giraffes can’t dance

Giraffes can’t dance

In our first term one of our class texts that we enjoyed reading was ‘Giraffes can’t dance’. We read the story and talked about the characters and what happened to them. We had to retell the story in the small world and make stick puppets. We also enjoyed thinking...

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