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Each Friday after school, the children and families are welcome to stay for a story told by Megan, our Reader in Residence from Seven Stories. The children love this opportunity to share a story with their families – older and younger siblings are welcome too. A lovely way to end the week. Continue Reading
This week, we held our grand final of the St Lawrence’s Big Spell 2020. For the last four weeks, we have all been working very hard to learn our Spelling lists. We went through several knockout rounds – a big test to show our starting point, a big test to show how much progress we… Continue Reading
This half term, Year 1 have been reading lots of well known traditional tales. One of our favourites was the tale of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We listened carefully to the story and acted it out in small groups in front of our peers. We thought about each character in the story and tried to use… Continue Reading
As a part of Children’s Mental Health Week, and thinking about the motto, ‘Find Your Brave,’ Year 3 looked at the story ‘The Wolf’s Colourful Coat,’ by Avril McDonald. The story encourages children to find their inner strength and to try to be brave when something worries them. In the story, the character Spider showed… Continue Reading
Years 1 and 2 have enjoyed taking part in The Big Spell during January. Each child has been learning a list of High Frequency words from the phonic phase at which they are currently working. We have planned lots of activities at school in each of our daily phonic sessions to help the children to… Continue Reading
Our Reader in Residence, Megan, will be starting a Storytelling session on Friday after school. This is open to all Reception children, their parents and siblings and is a fantastic way to engage in and enjoy stories – please come along! Continue Reading
In Year 5, our first writing focus of 2020 was newspaper reports. Our reports were based on our brand-new class text, Street Child. We began by studying chapter 2 of Street Child, titled The Stick Man. As we read, we noted down questions we had about what was happening in the text and why certain… Continue Reading
During this half term Year 2 have really been enjoying reading; The Diary of The Killer Cat by Anne Fine. We found out a little about the author; Anne Fine since this was the first book which we have read in Year 2 by this author. . We made a fact file about Anne Fine.… Continue Reading
Last term, Year 6 studied ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. Before looking at the actual text, we explored the question: Who was Charles Dickens? We researched his background and considered what life was like for people living in Victorian England. Dickens was writing during the Industrial Revolution in London and there was a huge contrast… Continue Reading
In Year 3, we have been enjoying reading Hansel and Gretel by Anthony Browne. We split the story into three parts; the beginning, the middle and the ending. We have discussed in small groups the features of a fairytale and how Browne’s version also includes these conventions. Over this topic, we have developed our skills… Continue Reading
