WANTED: Nibbles the Book Monster!
This week in English, Class 1 became book detectives on a very important mission… to catch the mischievous Nibbles the Book Monster!
After discovering some very suspicious bite marks in our reading corner and noticing some well-loved stories mysteriously nibbled, our EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2…
Window by Jeannie Baker
In English we have been learning about how our world is changing through reading the book ‘Window’ by Jeannie Baker. This made us consider changes that are happening to the environment in our local area. We have discovered that since 2020, 1000 houses have been built in Tamworth and many…
EYFS: Signs of Spring Hunt
Today, EYFS enjoyed going on a ‘signs of Spring’ walk around the school grounds. They looked high and low to find signs of Spring and were delighted to find birds, daffodils, a nest, flowers, green leaves on trees and some buds. Back in the classroom the children did some fantastic writing to…
Poetry in Motion: Senses in Action
To wrap up our week of poetry, the children in Class One put on an incredible performance of their nature senses poems! After exploring the outdoors on a welly walk at Forest School, they crafted poems full of vibrant sensory details.
The final lesson saw our young poets perform their poems in…
Wellie Wonders: A Sensory Adventure in Nature
Class One had a wellie good time in today’s English lesson, inspired by the delightful book Where My Wellies Take Me by Clare and Michael Morpurgo. After slipping on their trusty wellies, the children headed outside for a sensory walk through forest school. With sights, sounds, smells and things…
Mayan facts through poetry.
To help remember some of our Mayan facts, we put them into an acrostic style poem.
Oracy in Action: Hot Seating
Today, Class One took a deep dive into the world of crayons when we explored the whimsical story of The Day The Crayons Quit by Dew Daywalt, where crayons have had enough and decide to voice their frustrations.
Our oracy focussed lesson saw the children stepping into the shoes of the crayon…
Debating accepting the Roman rule or not.
We have been learning about the Celts reaction to the Roman invasion in 43AD. Using all the evidence we have gathered we then had to make a decision: Would we have accepted the Roman rule or not?
We had a very successful debate as a class, where we confidently shared our opinions using our…
Super-tastic Story Mapping
Today in English, we took a deep dive into the world of Supertato with a fun, creative twist! First, we read the story and then our brilliant minds drew a story map, illustrating the exciting adventures of the heroic Supertato and his arch-nemesis, the Evil Pea. The Reception children joined in…
Rainforest poems.
This week we have created poems about the rainforest. We have used our knowledge from our Geography topic and from reading the story ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ to help us with our ideas.
Peas-fully Evil: Unleashing Creativity in Character Descriptions!
In today’s English lesson, our young writers got to work describing the villainous Evil Pea from Supertato! Armed with adjectives and expanded noun phrases, they transformed the sneaky, little pea into a full-blown menace. From “his slimy, villainous grin” to “the mean, green chaos-creator”, the…
