In English, we are reading Grace and family by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch. Grace goes to stay with her father in The Gambia and while there she visits a market.This morning, we created our own ‘African market’ and the children tasted different fruits, smelt spices, saw bright, colourful fabrics and heard music and the hustle and bustle of a busy market. We used this as inspiration to write expanded noun phrases which we will include in a setting description of an African market.
Congratulations to Charlie and Archie in Year 6, our 2nd and 3rd Half Millionaires of the year.
We are sure the boys will be Word Millionaires in no time! Keep up the fantastic reading!
Thank you to everyone who attended our book fair recently.
It was wonderful to see the children so enthused about new books.
Thanks to the fantastic turnout, we have raised £370.08 to buy more books for school to support the children and their love of reading.
We look forward to hosting another book fair in April.
A huge congratulations to Esme in Year 6.
Esme is the first Accelerated Reader award winner of the year, having read over 500,000 words already since returning to school in September! As she has achieved this in only 6 weeks, Esme is setting herself the challenge of becoming our first Word Millionaire before Christmas.
Just a reminder that our Scholastic Book Fair begins tomorrow afternoon. Parents and children are invited to come into school and into the Studio (via the fire exit door) to look at the books and make any purchases during the following times:
Nursery & Reception – Friday 4th October– 3.15pm – 3.45pm or Monday 7th October – 8.30am – 8:50am
Year 1 – Monday 7th October – 3.15pm – 3.45pm
Year 2 – Tuesday 8th October – 8.30am – 8:50am
Year 3 – Tuesday 8th October – 3.15pm – 3.45pm
Year 4 – Wednesday 9th October – 8.30am – 8:50am
Year 5 & Year 6 – Wednesday 9th October – 3.15pm – 3.45pm
Please also remember that our Book Fair is cashless.
We look forward to seeing lots of you there.
Look at all of these AR Award winners! Lots of Half millionaires and a special mention to Abbey and Imogen from Y6 and Esme and Bonnie from Year 5 who are now Word Millionaires.
Today, YRW had a special visit to our local library. We walked to the library using the road safety rules. During our visit we listened to the Librarian read ‘Tickly Octopus’ then we explored a range of books. We even coloured and made our own bookmarks.
Congratulations to Nathan, Elizabeth and Maizie who are now Word Millionaires!
Our AR Word Millionaires are always presented with a trophy, a certificate and they get a book of their choice as a prize.
We are incredibly proud of our year 3, 4, 5 and 6 pupils who participated in the national Leaders Award competition, where children are posed the question ‘If you were an engineer, what would you do?’ The children are tasked with identifying a problem and designing an invention to solve that problem. They created labelled diagrams of their invention and wrote letters to a panel of judges explaining what their invention did and the inspiration behind it. Out of thousands of children who took part, over 70 of our children were shortlisted to the final round of judging and had their work displayed at Sunderland University.
We are also delighted to announce that Carter, in year 6, was announced as the winner for the north east of England for his invention of the Emergency Stop System! Carter’s invention would help people cross the road safely and it would be especially beneficial for people with visual impairments.
Check out the amazing entries!
Thank you to everyone who attended our book fair recently.
It was wonderful to see the children so enthused about new books.
Thanks to the fantastic turnout, we have raised £554.68 to buy more books for school to support the children and their love of reading.
We look forward to hosting another book fair next academic year.
