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Category Archives: Literacy

Class 6 investigate ‘changing solids’ in science

Thursday, 2nd Februaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Within yesterdays learning, Year 5 have been learning about what happens to solids when mixed with liquids During our most recent science lessons, the children have planned their investigation and […]

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Oracy, Our learning, Science, Year 5

Working systematically with NRICH maths challenges in Class 6

Thursday, 26th Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

As part of our reasoning and applying our knowledge within mastery maths sessions, the children in Year 5 have completed another investigative NRICH reasoning investigation using their systematic thinking and […]

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Creating our own extended metaphors in Y6!

Wednesday, 25th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Year 6 have been putting their knowledge of extended metaphors into practise in Literacy today. We analysed a video of a railway train, similar to the ones evacuees would travel […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Reading, Writing, Year 6

P4C in Y6 – World War 2

Wednesday, 25th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

This afternoon, the children in Class 8 participated in a P4C discussion about WW2. First, we explored some pictures of evacuees and recorded our first thoughts down on a post-it […]

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Oracy, Philosophy for Children, Year 6

WHOLE SCHOOL SPECIAL MENTIONS ASSEMBLY – WEEK 3

Saturday, 21st Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

As we reflect on what has been fabulous week of achievements across school, the children at Roughwood have been showcasing their achievements, using their oracy to discuss what learning has […]

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Literacy, Maths, News and Events, Oracy, Our learning, Sports, Year 1, Year 2, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Y6 use drama to explore thoughts and feelings

Thursday, 19th Januaryby Leave a comment

This week, we have started our new unit of Literacy. In preparation for our narrative writing, we have been learning about evacuees and the diverse range of experiences the children […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Writing, Year 6

Excellent writing in Y3S

Monday, 16th Januaryby Leave a comment

Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]

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Literacy, Writing

Excellent writing in Y3S

Monday, 16th Januaryby Leave a comment

Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]

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Excellent writing in Y3S

Monday, 16th Januaryby Leave a comment

Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]

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Literacy, Writing

Freeze-Frames in Drama

Wednesday, 4th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 5 had a fantastic drama lesson this morning, acting out different scenarios linked to our new book, Meet me by the Steelmen. Take a look at our freeze-frames… Well […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Drama in Y3S

Wednesday, 4th Januaryby Leave a comment

Today Class 4 completed many different drama activities in relation to a setting from our new class text ”meet me by the steelmen”. The setting was Meadowhall. Children were given […]

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Literacy, Oracy

Performance Poetry in Class 5

Wednesday, 14th Decemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 5 have been working incredibly hard over the last couple of weeks, learning about and performing a poem called, ‘The Victorian Little Match Girl’. It’s based on the traditional […]

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Art, Computing, History, Literacy, Media & Films, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

KS2 panto rehearsals underway for the big performance on Monday

Friday, 9th Decemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

All children in KS2 have practised their pantomime performance (oh yes they have) in this mornings dress rehearsal of ‘Snow White.‘ All children have sang beautifully and all children with […]

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Christmas, Music, Oracy, Our learning, Seasonal, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion

Tuesday, 6th Decemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Writing, Year 6

Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion

Tuesday, 6th Decemberby Leave a comment

Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]

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Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion

Tuesday, 6th Decemberby Leave a comment

Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]

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Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion

Tuesday, 6th Decemberby Leave a comment

Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Writing, Year 6

Reading with expression and fluency in Y3S

Monday, 5th Decemberby Leave a comment

These two children have worked incredibly hard on improving their fluency and intonation in their reading. Both children reflected on their autumn fluency video and thought their reading must have […]

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Oracy, Reading

Key stage 1 Road Safety Bands

Monday, 28th Novemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

Key stage 1 were amazed to see that their learning in NEMESIS and Literacy has resulted in a delivery from Brightkidz. We have received a pack of reflective bands to […]

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Literacy, Social Innovation, Year 1, Year 2

Kahoot with Mr Hood

Friday, 25th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in Y6 have been learning about erosion and the Kahoot quiz was used to test our knowledge before our writing. Everyone loves a quiz!

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Computing, Literacy, News and Events, Writing

Extended Writing in Year 4

Thursday, 24th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

We are so proud of our Class 5 writers this week! Take a look at their wonderfully emotive, finished letters from Jim Jarvis

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History, Literacy, News and Events, Writing, Year 4

Using iMovie for the 1st time in Y3S

Thursday, 17th Novemberby Leave a comment

Today Class 4 used the iMovie app for the first time ever to sequence and order some drama clips we had created using the green screen the previous day. The […]

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Computing, Literacy, Oracy

Movie Magic in Class 5!

Sunday, 13th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 5 worked incredibly hard last week, to create their own films about Jim’s life in the Victorian workhouse. We are so proud of the finished videos! Children used iMovie […]

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Computing, History, Literacy, News and Events, Year 4

Exploring our immersive reading area – Y6

Friday, 11th Novemberby Leave a comment

Our Year 6’s were able to fully immerse themselves in our class text ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ this morning, by referring to our reading area and finding clues whilst reading our class […]

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Reading, Year 6

Nemesis in Class 3

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week Class 3 have started their NEMESIS project all about road safety outside of our school grounds. We began our week learning about what road safety is and how […]

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Educational Visit, Literacy, Oracy, Social Innovation, Well-being, Year 2

Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Leave a comment

Our lucky Year 6 children are participating in a project exploring creative reading and writing with help from mentors from Pontefract College, working in partnership with Wingfield Academy. Each week, […]

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Reading, Writing, Year 6

Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Leave a comment

Our lucky Year 6 children are participating in a project exploring creative reading and writing with help from mentors from Pontefract College, working in partnership with Wingfield Academy. Each week, […]

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Reading, Writing, Year 6

Nemesis in Class 2

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week Class 2 have started their NEMESIS project of road safety. We began our week learning about what road safety is and how we can be safe near roads. […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Social Innovation, Well-being, Year 1, Year 2

Using iMovie to recount events in Literacy

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 5 have had a fantastic morning in Literacy today, piecing together their green screen drama using iMovie! The children worked together in pairs to order events chronologically, and then […]

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Computing, Literacy, Media & Films, News and Events, Year 4

Peter Thorpe – in Year 5, we have blast off!

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Peter Thorpe is known for his art work that features rockets and elements of space. This week, we have continued our learning all about space-themed abstract art. We focused on […]

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Art, Literacy, Writing, Year 5

Drama on the Green Screen

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a fantastic morning Class 5 had today in Drama! We have been thinking about Jim, a character from our class text, and his daily routine in a Victorian workhouse […]

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Computing, History, Literacy, Media & Films, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Class 1 fairy tale poetry

Friday, 4th Novemberby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

In Class 1 we have been learning all about Hans Christian Andersen and all of the fabulous fairy tales he wrote. We have written and performed some poetry about him […]

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Literacy, Media & Films, Oracy, Writing, Year 1

Panto Rehearsals 2022 Commence at Roughwood!

Thursday, 3rd Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Oh yes they have! KS2 came together today at lunchtime to begin their rehearsals for (hopefully) a performance no one will forget of this years school panto… Snow White. This […]

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Christmas, Music, Oracy, Outdoors Club, Seasonal, Year 4, Year 5

‘Author of the week’ in Y3

Friday, 7th Octoberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Every week in Class 4, Miss Sare chooses a new member of the class to be this week’s author of the week. Their job is to take home and look […]

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Literacy, Well-being, Writing

Poetry Basket

Monday, 3rd Octoberby misshsingleton Leave a comment

The children in Chestnuts Class have been busy learning Autumn poems from our Poetry Basket. Last week we learnt the poem ‘Autumn Leaves’. We performed it outside today on our […]

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Chesnuts, Oracy, Seasonal

T4W In Class 4

Thursday, 29th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Children are at the final stage of their narrative writing and are beginning to think about writing their story ending. To help us put ideas into sentences, we are starting […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Reading, Writing

Improving Presentation in Class 5

Thursday, 29th Septemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 5 have been working especially hard on their presentation over the past few weeks, and we are already seeing a huge improvement! Take a look … Well done, Class […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Writing, Year 4

Making faces in nature

Tuesday, 27th Septemberby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Acorns and Little acorns this term we are asking the question what makes me,me? As part of this we went into the outdoor classroom on a joint welly walk […]

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Acorns, Art, Design & Technology, Literacy, Little Acorns

Florence’s Hospital T4W

Monday, 26th Septemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

In class 2 we have been learning about setting descriptions. We decided to describe the hospital Florence Nightingale visited in Germany. We focused on adding adjectives to describe and conjunctions […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Writing, Year 1, Year 2

Virtual Visit from author Suzy Senior

Friday, 23rd Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today children from key stage one and foundation stage were very lucky and to got to meet the author Suzy Senior. Suzy is a local author from Sheffield. We listened […]

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Chesnuts, Reading, Year 1, Year 2

Excellent writing in year 2

Tuesday, 20th Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Over the last couple of weeks, Class 3 have been working on producing excellent writing. This doesn’t mean that it has to be perfect but it does mean that it […]

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Writing, Year 2

Excellent writing in Y3S

Friday, 16th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Over the last few weeks, Class 4 have been working on completing learning that is excellent. We have discussed that this doesn’t necessarily mean perfect but something which the children […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Writing

Let’s make faces

Friday, 16th Septemberby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Little Acorns we have been using the text ‘Let’s make faces’ by Hanoch Piven as a stimulus for our learning. This week when we have been on our welly […]

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Art, Literacy, Little Acorns, Our learning

Drama in Year 4

Tuesday, 13th Septemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 5 had a fantastic morning today, acting in role to explore the character, Jim Jarvis … We thought carefully about our facial expressions and body language as we acted […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Year 5 Astronaut Training Day

Tuesday, 13th Septemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Today, the children in Year 5 competed a range of resilience challenges during their astronaut training day. The children wrote postcards and asked questions about the unknown about different planets […]

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Oracy, Our learning, Year 5

Class 3 – Future Aspirations

Friday, 9th Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today class 3 came to school dressed as a famous person. Children dressed as musicians, actors and sports people. We spoke about what being famous meant to us and the […]

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News and Events, Oracy, Philosophy for Children, Year 2

Creating ‘synonym’ rolls in Y3

Friday, 9th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 looked at some vocabulary that we would have probably used in our character description and decided to make them even better! We used the iPads and thesaurus’ […]

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Literacy

Class 2 Comparing numbers

Thursday, 8th Septemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

Class 2 combined maths with PE to help us learn how to compare numbers. We introduced the > and < signs with a catchy song. After, we went outside and […]

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Sports, Writing, Year 1, Year 2

T4W in Year 6 – The Giants’ Necklace

Tuesday, 19th Julyby missdungworth Leave a comment

At the beginning of transition, the children in Y6 were introduced to the short novel ‘A Giant’s Necklace’ by Michael Morpurgo, which follows a girl named Cherry who’s ambition is […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Year 6

P4C in Year 6

Tuesday, 19th Julyby missdungworth Leave a comment

During our transition in Y6, we have begun to learn about plastic pollution and how this can damage our environment, especially our oceans. We were introduced to the “Place for […]

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Oracy, Philosophy for Children, Year 6

Class 3’s talk for write

Friday, 15th Julyby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In literacy today we looked at how we could edit and improve our writing. We added in adjectives and interesting vocabulary to make our setting description more exciting for the […]

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Oracy, Writing, Year 2

Year 5 – Designing and measuring rockets using perimeter

Friday, 15th Julyby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

During transition, the children in Year 5 have been using and applying their maths learning and deepening their thinking using perimeter. Using their prior knowledge of measurement, the children have […]

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Y3S – Inputting and presenting data

Wednesday, 13th Julyby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Class 4 worked in pairs to input some primary data which we collected from each other and then presented it through a pie chart on Google sheets. The data […]

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Computing, Maths, Oracy

Class 2 Talk 4 Write

Wednesday, 13th Julyby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week class 2 have started learning about talk 4 write. We started the lesson by drawing pictures to represent words. We then progressed onto adding actions to our pictures. […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Year 1, Year 2

P4C – Something Else

Wednesday, 6th Julyby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

We had a fantastic first P4C today in our class! We read our transition text, ‘Something Else’ as the stimulus, and generated lots of philosophical questions about the themes of […]

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News and Events, Oracy, Philosophy for Children, PSHCE, Year 4

Class 7 begin their balanced arguments

Wednesday, 29th Juneby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Before transition to Year 6 begins, the children in Year 5 begin their balanced arguments by engaging in the debate, ‘Is social media a good thing? There were some extremely […]

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Computing, Literacy, Oracy, Philosophy for Children, PSHCE, Writing, Year 5

Class 8 use their oracy skills to debate!

Tuesday, 28th Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our Literacy session today, Class 8 made a great start to their new unit of balanced arguments by engaging in the debate: “Is social media a good thing?” We […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Year 5

We’re off to … make a biscuit

Friday, 24th Juneby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Little Acorns we have been reading the story ‘We’re off to see the wizard’ we have drawn our favourite characters. We then decorated biscuits to look like our favourite […]

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Design & Technology, Little Acorns, Reading

A Disgusting Sandwich

Tuesday, 14th Juneby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In class 3 we have started a new unit of work on instructions. Our instructions are all based around a book called The Disgusting Sandwich. Today we started to plan […]

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Oracy, Writing, Year 2

Who’s been eating my porridge?

Friday, 10th Juneby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Little Acorns this week we have been using the story Goldilocks and the three bears as a stimulus for our learning. We have really enjoyed this story and learning […]

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Little Acorns, Reading

Filming in Class 4

Wednesday, 25th Mayby Mr Perry Leave a comment

Throughout this terms topic, year 3&4 have been learning about the outbreak of the plague in Eyam. To help us understand what that might have been like, we have interviewed […]

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Class 2 Singing in French

Friday, 20th Mayby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

Today class 2 have been learning how to tell the weather in french. We started with some word matching games and progressed onto singing a weather song in french. We […]

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Languages, Music, Oracy, Year 1, Year 2

Story Spoons on the Green Screen!

Thursday, 19th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 took their drama learning to the next level today, using the story spoons to conduct their eye-witness interviews on the green screen! Take a look at their fantastic […]

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Computing, History, Literacy, Media & Films, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

Eye-Witness Interviews in Drama

Wednesday, 18th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 3 & 4 have become journalists this week, preparing for writing a newspaper report about the outbreak of plague in Eyam … In Drama today, children interviewed eye-witnesses for […]

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History, Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Year 4

The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs

Friday, 13th Mayby misshsingleton Leave a comment

Everyone has heard the story of the 3 Little Pigs, but have you heard the True Story? We have been using Talk for Writing to orally retell the story. Watch […]

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Chesnuts, Oracy

Fairytale crafts

Friday, 13th Mayby jodie712 Leave a comment

In Acorns and little acorns we have been learning about fairytales and the characters in the stories. We wanted to immerse ourselves into the stories so we created character masks. […]

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Acorns, Art, Little Acorns, Reading

Using and creating spreadsheets and data in Year 5

Thursday, 12th Mayby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

During our computing sessions in our ICT suite, the children in class 7 have been using excel this week to create spreadsheets and present key data about the characters from […]

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Computing, Oracy, Reading, Year 5

Sharing stories in the sunshine

Friday, 29th Aprilby jodie712 Leave a comment

We’ve had a fantastic time sharing stories in the sunshine in Little Acorns today. We love to share stories and had a lovely time sharing some of our favourite books […]

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Little Acorns, News and Events, Reading

T4W all about the Digestive system!

Thursday, 31st Marchby mrnhood Leave a comment

Class 5 have had lots of fun recently learning all about the Digestive System and today we used Talk For Writing to retell all the steps that take place. First, […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Year 3, Year 4

Bolsover Castle Recount

Tuesday, 22nd Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today in literacy we have started writing our recount for our visit to Bolsover castle. We have used talk for write to begin to learn our opening paragraph. We have […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Writing, Year 2

Class 2 Dinnertime Talk for Write

Wednesday, 16th Marchby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

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Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Year 1, Year 2

P4C in Year 5 – recycling and caring for animals and sea creatures

Thursday, 10th Marchby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

This week, children in Year 5 have focused on recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our P4C session, […]

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Oracy, Philosophy for Children, Year 5

Using drama to explore character thoughts and feelings

Wednesday, 9th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

Year 5/6 have made a great start in their Literacy unit by using freeze frames within drama to explore our characters thoughts and feelings from our class book, Treason. We […]

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Oracy, Year 5

Freeze Frames in Drama

Wednesday, 9th Marchby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 have been been working on their facial expressions and body language this morning in Drama, linked to their story writing in Literacy … Children split up into groups […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Year 4

World Book Day

Thursday, 3rd Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today we have been celebrating the 25th anniversary of World Book Day. Children and teachers dressed up as characters from their favourite book. The costumes were fantastic and very colourful.

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