Year 1 have been busy practising reading and spelling the 100 common exception words they are learning. They have tested each other, written them in different ways and played games to support this.

Year 1 have started their new writing journey this week. It is based on the book Winnie and Wilbur under the sea. Today the children worked collaboratively to create story maps. They will use these tomorrow to retell the story using sentences and actions.

Year 1 have been very busy writing instructions about how to plant beans! The children worked hard to order the instructions carefully and use bossy adjectives to help make their writing clear!

In our writing lesson today, the children practised their instructional language by creating a video on how to plant a bean. They then used their own instructions to plant up their own beans that they have been growing in science.

It was wonderful to see parents getting involved in our Writing for Pleasure workshop. Thank you for working together to inspire a love of writing for the children.

This week in our writing lessons, Year 1 have been exploring the use of the conjunction 'and'. They practised saying the word when joining 2 ideas together, then they created sentences using the conjunction by selecting strips of writing. Finally they have written sentences themselves using and.

The children are really increasing in confidence are exploring their sentence writing skills.

The children worked exceptionally hard last week in Year 1 to write about their trip to the safari park. The children focussed on using adverbs of time and making sure they use accurate punctuation in their sentences.

Year 1 have been working on their oral sentence building this week in English, in preparation for writing about their trip to the Safari Park. The children selected pictures and used sentence stems to share their ideas about these animals. Then they planned their recount and used this to rehearse sentences that they will write.

The Year 1 children have been busy creating book reviews and explaining why their books are their favourite during our World Book Week celebrations.

The Year 1 children were thrilled to visit the book fair and select their own books today to bring home as part of World Book Week at school. They chose a wide variety of fiction and non fiction to enjoy!

We had a really successful parent workshop last week in Year 1, that focussed on handwriting and oral story telling. It was fantastic to see so many families attending!

The children have been using their oracy skills to retell the section of Zog that they will be writing about next week. They created their 's' plans before telling their friends what was happening.

Reception have been practising their understanding of prepositions.

The children were inspired by their poetry week and spent time planning and creating their own poems based on what makes them happy.

Y6 have produced some fantastic diary entries based on the amazing book Oranges in No Mans Land. Well done :)

Y5 children have published their final pieces of writing based on the Highway man. We are very pleased with the final results :)

Year 1 have been busy in their writing lesson today. They had an immersive session with snow and ice to help them generate adjectives for their writing next week.

We have been busy collecting adjectives about what we can see in the South Pole part of our story Lost and Found. The children worked collaboratively and creatively to create some fantastic adjective word banks.