Archive for November, 2017
November 27, 2017 @ 10:16 pm
· Filed under Parents as partners, Patron of Reading, Reading, Writing
We have had a wonderful day of family learning and reading challenges! Over 80 parents came to school today to take part in our parent and child workshop. Our patron reader; Conrad Burdekin read his poems to our families and told a story about a tortoise that gatecrashed a party in the sky! Children and […]
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November 27, 2017 @ 10:04 pm
· Filed under Early Years, Patron of Reading, Reading, Writing
Today we have enjoyed reading The Night Box for this first time. We were fascinated by the book and enjoyed looking at the nocturnal animals and thinking about day / night, sunrise / sunset. There were lots of new words for us to learn. Miss Chilton had a Night Box, with all the things she […]
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November 27, 2017 @ 9:43 pm
· Filed under Class Challenges, Early Years, Patron of Reading, Reading
Today, one of our challenges was to be ‘Caught Reading’. All these children were caught on camera reading.
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November 27, 2017 @ 9:06 pm
· Filed under Early Years, Maths, Outdoors, Phonics, Reading, Writing
We loved reading Oliver Jeffer’s book – How to catch a star. We tried to think of some different ways to catch a star and what we would do with the star if we had a star for a friend. We took our stars all around the school and showed them where we liked to […]
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November 27, 2017 @ 8:39 pm
· Filed under Early Years, Patron of Reading, Reading
We read Tim Hopgood’s book “Unpoppable”. We talked about what a book review was and how some people might like the book and some people might not like the book. We talked about who we would like to read the story to. Thumbs up, across or down to show if they liked the book. The […]
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