Cricket

Over the past few weeks Y5/6C has been receiving cricket training from a professional coach. The children have had fun working on skills such as batting, catching and fielding. Check out the videos below, we may have some cricket stars of the future!

Book Week

This week is book week. Children from different classes have joined together to share stories. Below are some photos of children from Y5/6C & Y2S enjoying books together.






Did you know 2008 is the national year of reading?

Below are some website links

Click here for some online picture stories

Click here to for reading challenges -Why not take a book quiz?

Click here for reading ideas

Get blogging!

Last week Year 2 learned how to find this blog on the internet and how to read and add comments to the stories that are published. It's lovely to read all the comments that they made. You too can make a comment on any of the stories in this blog. Start by clicking on the blue 'comments' link at the bottom of the story you want to comment on. Happy blogging!

Year 5 and 6 have been writing stories about what it must have been like in an air raid during World War Two. Morgan's story really captured the atmosphere. Here's an extract:.

Charlie didn’t know what to do. He couldn’t find his mum or his brother Tom. “Why? Why do I have to go there?” The air raid warden just looked very angry.
“Just do it!” he said sharply. So Charlie did.

Nervously, the boy scampered down to the shelter and shut the door behind him. Charlie thought his heart was going to come out of his chest. Do this; do that; he didn’t know who to listen to. The eight year old boy was all alone. People running around; no one took any notice of poor Charlie. With that, he saw his brother, Tom. “Come on, you lazy thing,” said Tom. “Mum’s been looking for you everywhere.”

Courageously, Charlie walked outside to meet his mother. BANG! “Aww!” said Charlie, “what was that for?”

“That was for not listening to me when I said ‘bombs’,” said his mother.

As Charlie walked into his house, he heard a faint explosion in the distance. Charlie turned round. All around was silence. “Mum! Mum!” There was no reply. He had done it again: lost his mum and brother Tom. “Mum, Mum. Please reply, Mum. I’m scared! MUM!”

What a brilliant piece of writing! Well done, Morgan.

3D shape drawings

In maths this week Year 5 & 6 have been finding out more about shapes. In this lesson the children needed to create various shapes from cubes. The children were asked to draw their shapes in 3D from different views. Some of the children enjoyed the task so much, they have set themselves a project of producing more 3D pictures.

Year 3/4's stories in familiar settings

Mine and Mrs Mantle's Literacy groups have been looking at stories set in places that we are familiar with. This week we've taken our groups out into the playground to see how it can be so different when it is empty and when it is full with children!



We then used this as inspiration to write the setting of a story. Here is an extract of Agnel's story.


The sky was baby blue with fluffy white clouds in the breezy, cold, peaceful playground. In the background I could hear sirens and motorcycles. Butterflies fluttered around drinking pollen. The autumn leaves swooshed around. Sunlight was beating on the ground. Trucks passed quickly, birds sung their beautiful songs.

Excellent descriptive writing Agnel!

Reception's Class Pets!

As well as having 30 new children in Reception, we are also looking forward to the birth of hundreds of baby snails! The little white eggs, which look like polystyrene balls appeared in their cage this morning. Anyone with any tips or desire to home one (or more) of these delightful, low maintainance pets can speak to Mrs. Rollings.