Wow! What a flurry of award-winning readers we have had recently. Congratulations to Sophie in Y4 and Jayden and Archie in Y6 who are now Word Millionaires and also to Maximus, Harry and Hallie in Y4; Betsy in Y5 and Jade and Max in Y6 who are now Half Millionaires. We are so proud of them all!
Congratulations to Louie in Year 6 who is now a Half Millionaire. Louie said he is determined to be a Word Millionaire by July and we know he can do it!
Y2L had lots of fun at Seven Stories today. We were illustrators to our own story, took part in a traditional tales workshop and explored many books and authors.
Congratulations to Maisy in Year 6 on achieving her Half Millionaire award. Maisy won this last year also, along with her Word Millionaire award and she is off to a great start towards achieving her Millionaire status yet again.
Y2L visited The Oriental Museum to learn about and explore the culture of China, including Chinese New Year, symbolism, shadow puppets and the Chinese Zodiac. We even took part in a dragon dance. We also discussed the similarities and differences between China and the UK.
As part of our Literacy this half term Year 1 have been reading Hansel and Gretel. We visited Seven Stories in Newcastle to explore Traditional Tales.
We journeyed deep into enchanted woods to discover how stories are crafted to captivate and inspire. We carried out a workshop to unravel the secrets of story structure and unleash creativity to piece together a tornado of tangled tales.
This was inspired by a host of traditional tales from our collection of work including Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and much more!
We had a great day exploring, we were also able to see the Tiger Who Came to Tea Exhibition with story and Mog, the forgetful cat.
Congratulations to two of our Sophies who are now Half Millionaires: Sophie in Year 4 and Sophie in Year 6. The girls are now aiming for that Word Millionaire award. Keep up the amazing reading!
Year 6 are writing lots about tigers this half term in English. At the start of the half term children conducted lots of research and wrote non-chronological reports about tigers and last week the children created their own persuasive adverts for a tiger charity and I am sure you will agree, they are fantastic! We have also been using our sketching skills to create tiger portraits in art lessons. We have some very talented artists!
Congratulations to James, Eva, Sienna and Bonnie in Y6 who are Half Millionaires. The girls have loved the Lottie Brooks books by Katie Kirby and they have all loved reading lots of David Walliams books. Keep up the regular reading!
We have our first Word Millionaire of the academic year 2024-2025.
Congratulations to Esme in Year 6, our very first Millionaire this year. This is an excellent achievement at any point of the year, but to have read over 1,000,000 words in a term is outstanding!
Well done to Oliver and Jayden in Year 6 also for becoming Half Millionaires . The boys have read so much this half term and we know they will be Word Millionaires in no time!
