Macbeth Theatre Workshop

21st March 2023D Fawkes

Last week, Y6 took part in a Macbeth Workshop with Splats Entertainment. This was to help support the children with their creative writing around the play of Macbeth. The children acted out four scenes adopting different roles such as Macbeth, Banquo, King Duncan and the witches.

The children also helped to make make parts of their costumes including raven masks and helmets.

Henry in 6T said “I really enjoyed making the costumes and found doing the performance for Y4 and Y5 exciting and they all seemed to enjoy it”.

Witches worth watching

20th March 2023R Errington

While reading Roald Dahl’s story The Witches, we were inspired to read, write and perform playscripts. We understood how important it was to speak clearly, use expression in our voice and to think about our actions as well as facial expressions.

Oriental Museum -Year 2

20th March 2023H Langley

Last half term Year 2 learned all about China.  We visited The Oriental Museum and took part in Chinese dragon dancing, explored Chinese artefacts, completed Tangrams and found out the symbolic meanings of some animals to find hidden messages in pictures

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WORLD BOOK DAY 2023

3rd March 2023D Fawkes

World Book Day 2023

We have loved to see the children in their wonderful outfits, celebrating their favourite books and authors for World Book Day. All of the children have completed a range of book related activities in school.

Ella in Year 6 said she enjoys World Book Day. “I love reading and it’s fun to be the characters you love for the day”.

Sadie in Year 4 said she enjoys World Book Day because she loves reading and it’s a day all about celebrating reading.

 

Graphic Novels

16th February 2023D Fawkes
                       

Graphic novels are longer stories written and illustrated in the style of a comic, combining a sequence of engaging visual elements that drive the plot, coupled with short pockets of text in the form of captions and dialogue. The format has seen a burst in popularity in recent years and we have recently ordered a wealth of new graphic novels for both of our Accelerated Reader libraries for our children to enjoy in school and at home.

Check out these BooksforTopics links with recommended texts for 7-9 year olds and 9-11 year olds.

https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/topics/literacy-reading/graphic-novels-lower-ks2/

https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/topics/literacy-reading/graphic-novels-upper-ks2/

The Gingerbread Man

2nd December 2022L Moore

This week we have been reading the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’. We used puppets to retell the story and made our own Gingerbread men. They were delicious!

Our latest AR superstars!

29th June 2022D Fawkes

Wow! Even more AR award winners! Mrs Fawkes is delighted to say she is struggling to keep up with them, there are so many!

What an amazing year we are having with reading achievements and it is wonderful to see our children so enthusiastic about reading!

Congratulations to James (Y5F), Jack (Y5F), Erin (Y5L), Mia (Y5L) and Conner (Y6F) who have become our latest Word Millionaires and to Bonnie (Y3W), Elizabeth (Y4C), Maizie (Y4C), Ethan (Y6F), Ryan (Y6F) and Alfie (Y6A) who are now Half Millionaires!