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Category Archives: Literacy

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 3, 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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Class 2 pancake day!

Tuesday, 1st Marchby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

To begin our topic of instructions Class 2 have been looking at a pancake recipe. We learnt about the history of Shrove Tuesday and the importance of lent. Afterwards, we […]

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History, Literacy, Year 1, Year 2

Greater Depth Writing

Thursday, 10th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Our Greater Depth Writing group have been writing some amazing pieces linked to their topic about WWII. Children have brought the evacuation of children to life with their words.

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Literacy, News and Events, Writing, Year 6

Class 2 Non-fiction talk for write

Wednesday, 2nd Februaryby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week class 2 have been learning about non-fiction texts and their features. We are going to be creating a non-chronological report about castles. Our talk for write is our […]

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History, Literacy, Oracy, Year 1, Year 2

Video Editing in Year 4

Thursday, 27th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

This week, we’ve been creating our very own TV documentaries all about the Stone Age, in preparation for writing a non-chronological report next week. The children have used their oracy […]

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

Class 3 Performance Poetry

Wednesday, 26th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week we have been learning about poetry. We have been focusing on rhyming words. We created actions to perform a poem called There is a dragon in my classroom. […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Year 2

Class 2 performing poetry

Tuesday, 25th Januaryby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week class 2 have been learning about poetry. We have been focusing on rhyming words and how to perform a poem. We separated into groups and independently created our […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Year 1, Year 2

After School Clubs

Tuesday, 18th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Great clubs today after school. Children have been learning lots of maths and literacy skills with the help of teachers in school. Thank you teachers! The PE and health and […]

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Literacy, Maths, News and Events, Sports, Well-being

Author Visit: Peter J Murray

Featuredby Mr Williams Leave a comment

We’re really proud and pleased to have welcomed Peter J Murray back into school to talk to children about his books. All of the books in the Mokee Joe series […]

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Educational Visit, Reading

Class 3’s Talk for Write

Monday, 10th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In literacy we have been working in small groups to create a story opened for the story The Tunnel. Children focussed on using expanded noun phrases to describe the tunnel. […]

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Oracy, Writing, Year 2

Class 2 Outdoor literacy

Monday, 10th Januaryby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week class 2 are learning to write a setting description. We imagined Shrek’s swamp by adventuring to the outdoor classroom. We used our 5 senses to aid our learning […]

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Literacy, Year 1, Year 2

Year 5 begins ‘hot seating’ as we are introduced to the characters in the book…

Thursday, 6th Januaryby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

As Year 5 begin their new topic learning about the Elizabethans and Tudors, we begin studying our new class text ‘Treason’ (by Berlie Doherty). The children carefully created questions to […]

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Literacy, Oracy, Year 5

Year 6 Drama

Thursday, 6th Januaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

As part of our literacy this week we have been learning some drama techniques while learning about the start of WWII. We have used freeze frames and focused on expression […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Oracy, Year 6

Year 3/4 become archaeologists!

Wednesday, 5th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What an amazing start to a new term we’ve had in Lower Key Stage Two today! Year 3 and 4 became archaeologists, uncovering hidden treasures of the Stone Age, by […]

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

Class 3 trip to the postbox

Thursday, 25th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

To finish our unit on letter writing we have posted our published work so that our grown ups can read it when it comes through the post. We walked very […]

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Literacy, Year 2

Class 3 Instructions

Thursday, 25th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week Class 3 have been learning about instructions. To immerse the children in this topic we followed a recipe to make chocolate rice crispy buns. Before we made them […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Year 2

Class 2 Letters home

Wednesday, 24th Novemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

To conclude our letters topic we posted our published work so that our grown ups can read it when it comes through the post. We walked very sensibly to the […]

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Literacy, Year 1, Year 2

Class 2 Following a recipe

Tuesday, 23rd Novemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week Class 2 have been learning about instructions. To immerse the children in this topic we followed a recipe to make chocolate rice crispy buns. We focused on the […]

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Literacy, Well-being, Year 1, Year 2

Class 2 Brazil day!

Monday, 15th Novemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

Today Class 2 have been on a fabulous adventure to Brazil! We transformed the classroom into a plane and even saw the plane take off. We then learnt about Brazil’s […]

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Geography, Literacy, Music, Science, Year 1, Year 2

Class 3 achievements

Friday, 12th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today in class three we have shown fantastic resilience and determination to score amazing results on our spelling and arithmetic test. A huge well done to all children.

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Literacy, Maths, Year 2

Class 2 Talk for Write

Wednesday, 10th Novemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week class 2 have been learning how to write letters. We were amazed when we received a letter from Sunny the meerkat asking us to write to his family. […]

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Literacy, Year 1, Year 2

Postcards

Thursday, 4th Novemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Class 3 have been reading Meerkat Mail. This week we have focussed on the features of a postcard and the sort of sentences we might include in them. Today we […]

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Literacy, Year 2

Class 2 – Animal poetry performance

Thursday, 21st Octoberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

This week class 2 have been learning about performance poetry. We have focused on alliteration and rhyming words. We separated into our animal groups and created actions. We then performed […]

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Literacy, Media & Films, Year 1, Year 2

Fantastic Lions

Wednesday, 6th Octoberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In literacy we have been focusing on non chronological reports. Last we researched lions and today we have used talk for writing to create a model text using talk for […]

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Literacy, Year 2

Research in Literacy

Monday, 4th Octoberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Today in Class 6, children carried out their own research, using a variety of sources, in preparation for writing a non-chronological report about the rainforest. Children used iPads, library books, […]

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Computing, Literacy, News and Events, Year 4

Class 4 Talk for Writing

Friday, 1st Octoberby Mr Perry Leave a comment

In literacy this week, class 4 have created and rehearsed a Talk for Writing to make their own set of instructions. Following our topic of ‘Into the Forest’, our writing […]

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Literacy, Year 3

Survival Skills Investigation in Class 6

Wednesday, 29th Septemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 6 have had a wonderful week this week, writing our instructions on how to survive the rainforest. During that Literacy learning, we thought about how we might find and […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Science, Year 4

Class 8 Remote learning

Thursday, 23rd Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Miss Sare has had the pleasure of teaching the wonderful Class 8 this week. It has been great to see children continuing to show their resilience and hard work during […]

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Geography, Literacy, Our learning, Science, Year 5

Year 3/4 Survival Skills – Shelter Building

Wednesday, 22nd Septemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Classes 4, 5 and 6 have been learning all about how to survive in the rainforest, ready to write instructions next week. Today’s objective was to follow a set of […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Year 3, Year 4

Talk for writing

Wednesday, 8th Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

In literacy we have been thinking about setting descriptions and using adjectives to describe. Children came up with words like abandoned, old and wooden to name just a few. Today […]

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Literacy, Year 2

Year 3 and 4 take their Drama learning ‘Into the Forest’ …

Tuesday, 7th Septemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

What a wonderful morning we’ve had in Year 3 and 4 today! As part of their new ‘Into the Forest’ topic, Lower Key Stage Two took their learning outside, into […]

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Literacy, Year 3, Year 4

Class 2 Talk for write

Wednesday, 14th Julyby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week Class 2 have been learning about the Paralympian David Weir. We learnt about the event he takes part in and investigated the medals he won and where he […]

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Literacy, Year 1, Year 2

A letter arrives in class 3

Monday, 28th Juneby Miss Brown Leave a comment

A very exciting letter appeared on my desk this morning addressed to class 3. Children began predicting who it might have been from. Lots of children thought the letter might […]

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Literacy, Year 2

Persuasive writing

Friday, 25th Juneby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week in literacy class 3 have been working very hard. We have created adverts using our persuasive skills to persuade someone to visit a landmark in Rotherham. We used […]

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Literacy, Year 2

Innovating our T4W text map

Thursday, 17th Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Over the last two week, Class 4 have been writing their very own narrative based on creating an alternate event from our class story, Street Child. We created a class […]

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Literacy, Year 3

Year 4 Eyam Drama

Thursday, 10th Juneby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

On Monday, Class 6 recreated a significant event in our history topic – the village meeting, on the 24th of June 1666, where William Mompesson called for Eyam to quarantine […]

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History, Literacy, Philosophy for Children, Year 4

Y3 Outdoor Literacy/Drama

Thursday, 10th Juneby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 have begun their new genre, narrative. Over the next few weeks they will be writing their own alternate ending to a scene from the class text, Street Child. […]

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Literacy, Year 3

Year 4 on the Green Screen!

Monday, 24th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

The children in Year 4 had a wonderful afternoon today, as they started filming their entry for the Willow Tree Film Festival! They’ve made an amazing start! Take a look […]

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Computing, Literacy, News and Events, Year 4

Class 2 News Report

Friday, 14th Mayby Miss Brown Leave a comment

This week Class 2 have been continuing their learning about news paper reports. We have used our ICT skills to take videos of each other giving eye witness accounts and […]

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Computing, Literacy, Year 1, Year 2

Mental Health Awareness week and the outdoor classroom at Roughwood Primary School.

Thursday, 13th Mayby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

As part of ‘Mental Awareness Week’, class 7 have immersed ourselves into the wilderness of outdoor spaces, as we complete our immersive reading within Roughwood’s outdoor learning classroom. As we […]

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Our learning, Reading, Year 5

Taking reading outdoors

Thursday, 13th Mayby Miss Brown Leave a comment

As this week is mental heath week and all about nature we decided today to take the opportunity to read outside. Some children shared with us what book they were […]

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Literacy, Well-being, Year 2

Star Reporters in Class 6!

Friday, 7th Mayby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 6 have been working so hard on their newspaper reports this week! The children have written using formal language and used their drama learning to include eye-witness accounts, with […]

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History, Literacy, Reading, Year 4

Nature Crowns

Friday, 7th Mayby misshsingleton Leave a comment

‘So here is a very fine crown, to go with the sandals and gown of the KINDEST giant in town’. Today we finished reading our class text. At the end […]

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News and Events, Reading

Our love of reading

Friday, 7th Mayby Miss Burgin Leave a comment

In Acorns we love to explore our library in the school, taking a look at all of the different types of books as well as getting into character through role […]

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Acorns, Reading

Using discussion language in Class 8

Wednesday, 5th Mayby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our literacy session today, we have engaged in multiple discussions to practise using key words and phrases in preparation for our balanced argument writing next week. We have explored […]

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Literacy, Year 6

Disaster Strikes in London

Wednesday, 5th Mayby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Over the past week children in class 3 have been learning about newspaper reports. We have looked at the features included and learnt about the timeline of events for The […]

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Literacy, Year 2

The Smartest Giant in Town

Tuesday, 4th Mayby misshsingleton Leave a comment

Despite the weather, we have had the most wonderful afternoon with Pops Outdoor Adventures. Pops created us a fun filled afternoon based around our class text, The Smartest Giant in […]

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News and Events, Reading

Drama in Class 6

Wednesday, 28th Aprilby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Today, Class 6 used their acting skills to imagine how the villagers of Eyam felt, in September 1665, on hearing that one of their neighbours had contracted the disease … […]

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Literacy, Year 4

From relative pronouns to relative clauses in Year 5…

Wednesday, 21st Aprilby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Based on our class text ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, we have learnt about relative pronouns in our English session and used relative clauses to add detail to the main […]

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Literacy, Year 5

Circulatory system STEM in Class 9

Wednesday, 21st Aprilby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Today, we created a reconstruction of the way the human heart pumps in our STEM session. We found that only by using steady, rhythmic beat, we were able to pump […]

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News and Events, Reading, Science

ORACY Skills and Persuasion

Thursday, 11th Marchby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Year 5 & 6 have been using their Oracy skills to creat a video to persuade people to embark on a three-year voyage around teh world with captain Cook. Children […]

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Literacy, Year 5, Year 6

Class 7 celebrate their love for reading during World Book Week 2021

Friday, 5th Marchby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

From making our favourite characters out of fruit and vegetables, stitching out favourite book characters and finding out favourite places to read, what a week we’ve had! The children learning […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Year 5

Talk 4 Writing in Year 4

Thursday, 25th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 had a fantastic morning today, learning to explain the 4 steps of the water cycle using Talk 4 Writing. We were all amazed at how fast we could […]

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Literacy, Year 4

Peer critique in Class 9

Wednesday, 10th Februaryby Mrs Wheeler Leave a comment

Over the last 2 weeks, class 9 have been writing detailed setting descriptions using extended metaphors based on our class text, Stowaway. Today we have praised each other’s efforts and […]

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Literacy, News and Events

Persuasive Posters in Year 4

Friday, 5th Februaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Year 4 have made a fantastic start to their new Literacy learning this week on persuasion! Take a look at their persuasive posters about taking care of our world …

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Literacy, Year 4

Interesting Open ended Discussions in Y3S

Thursday, 4th Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today in Literacy Miss Sare decided to host an oracy based live lesson whereby children had the chance to give their opinions on really open ended philosophical style questions. Children […]

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Distance Learning, Literacy, Philosophy for Children, Year 3

Some beautifully presented published pieces in Y3S

Tuesday, 2nd Februaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Class 4 have finished their instructional writing genre and made time to publish their learning to the highest quality! Miss Sare was proud that the children continued to remember their […]

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Literacy, Year 3

Authors, Illustrators and Story Book Makers …

Featuredby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Y4G have become all 3! Mrs Graham is so proud she’s even starting to rhyme! We’ve been writing our own stories, based on our class text, Stig of the Dump, […]

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Literacy, Year 4

Live Handwriting Lesson in Y3S

Friday, 29th Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Miss Sare thoroughly enjoyed doing a live handwriting session today in preparation for the children publishing their instructions learning from the last 2 weeks. The children loved holding up their […]

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Literacy, Year 3

Professor Puffendorf

Tuesday, 26th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Today in literacy we started our new text Professor Puffendorf’s secret potions. Children were asked to draw the main character and around her use expanded noun phrases and adjectives to […]

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Distance Learning, Literacy, Year 2

Oracy Instructional Videos from Y3S

Thursday, 21st Januaryby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Today Miss Sare asked the children to film themselves giving some spoken instructions. Following the live lesson, Miss Sare asked them to ensure they included time conjunctions aswell as imperative […]

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Literacy, Year 3

Class 2 – Learning in the snow

Friday, 15th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Snow days can be a distraction when learning but in class 2 we have been using it to our advantage. We have been practising our addition and times table in […]

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Distance Learning, Maths, Reading, Year 1, Year 2

Descriptive Writing in Y4

Friday, 15th Januaryby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Classes 5 & 6 have really wowed us this week with their descriptive writing about Stig from Stig of the Dump! They’ve been so creative with their language choices and […]

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Literacy, Year 4

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