Reading: Blog items

Year 5 - Learning about the Lionesses

Date: 24th Jun 2025 @ 10:14am

As part of Health Week, our class explored the inspiring journey of an England Lioness, learning about her achievements both on and off the pitch. We discovered how her dedication, resilience, and healthy lifestyle contributed to her success in women's football. Through this lesson, we gained a deeper understanding of the importance of physical and mental wellbeing in reaching personal goals. The session also highlighted the value of teamwork, perseverance, and having strong role models in sport, encouraging us to lead active, healthy lives ourselves.

 
 

Acorns - Oh! Dear

Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:23pm

This week Acorns have been reading "Oh! Dear" and learning about the life cycle of a duck. We have loved observing the ducks over the last two weeks, watching them hatch and grow. 
We have also been exploring farm animals and the babies, developing our understanding of animal names, sounds, and what their young were called. We enjoyed matching objects to pictures and matching the adults to their young. 
we made our own hatching ducks in art, getting messy and using our handprints for their wings. Wow! It's been a busy week. Enjoy looking. 

Acorns - Sam plants a sunflower

Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 2:58pm

Acorns have enjoyed listening and interacting with this weeks story "Sam plants a sunflower". We have used the story to continue to develop our learning in small group activities and sensory activities.

We loved planting our own sunflowers and learning how a plant grows. Especially the water spray!

In art, we developed our cutting skills, creating our own sunflowers. 

Year 5 - Nathan Parker visit

Date: 6th May 2025 @ 2:09pm

We were thrilled to welcome local poet and author Nathan Parker to our school, where he shared his inspiring journey into writing with the children. Hailing from Blackpool, Nathan spoke passionately about how his love for poetry began at a young age, sparked by his surroundings and a desire to tell stories. He captivated the students with tales of how Blackpool, with its vibrant culture and seaside atmosphere, influences much of his work. Nathan didn’t just talk about poetry—he worked closely with the children to create their own poem, encouraging them to use their imaginations and express their unique voices. The students loved the hands-on experience, and their faces lit up as their ideas came together into something truly special. Nathan’s visit was a wonderful reminder of the power of creativity, and he left the children with the message to keep writing and never stop dreaming—no matter where their own creative journeys take them.

Acorns - The Hungry Caterpillar

Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 8:02am

Acorns have enjoyed listening to the Hungry Caterpillar this week and engaging in a variety of multisensory activities to develop their understanding and engagement.

We have loved looking at our very own caterpillars and watching them grow bigger and bigger and learning about the butterfly life cycle.

 

Year 4 - Poems

Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 10:18am

For no pen morning, we used our oracy skills in both Reading into Writing and Guided Reading. We are learning about poems on a theme in Reading into Writing and we had a poem about Spring in Guided Reading. In Reading into Writing, it was over to us! It was time for our shared write. We used our figurative language skills and typed a few verses ecah. Then we put them together as one poem and performed them.

Acorns - Walking through the Jungle

Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:18pm

Acorns have loved exploring animals and their habitats this week. We have enjoyed multi sensory activities along with our story, Walking Through the Jungle, to support our learning, understanding and engagement. 

We enjoyed exploring that people live in homes and different animals live in different places including jungles, oceans, mountains and deserts, but we all lived together on Earth. 

Reception applying our phonics knowledge

Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 9:41pm

Over the past few weeks the children have been busy applying their phonics knowledge to a range of different indpendent activities in the classroom.  We have been practicing reading and writing our tricky words on sight to help our reading become more fluent.  We have also been identifying diagraphs in words and segmenting and blanding them to read the and reading simple sentences including phase 3 diagraphs.

Acorns - Whatever Next!

Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 10:48am

Acorns have been exploring the concept of space over the last two weeks. Our sensory story Whatever Next! follows a teddy bear who flies to the moon in a cardboard box for a picnic. We have had lots of fun trying on our space helmet and flying to the moon in our own box, developing our imaginations, engagement in group activities and taking turns with a rocket to play with. 
We have been busy making space rockets and aliens during arts and crafts, counting backwards in maths as we blast into space and developing our focus and concentration with space themed 'Bucket' activities. 

Year 6 - Narrative Writing

Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 9:25am

This half term we have written a narrative story called 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'. We watched a short silent video based around the relationship between main characters: Rock, Paper, Scissors. We then had to write the story that went with the video. Have a read through some of our stories.

Nursery and World Book Day

Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 10:17pm

Nursery made a superb effort for World Book Day! We had Willy Wonka, but he forgot to bring his chocolate, Dorothy who had lost her way from the yellow brick road and Zog who was taking a break from his dragon training! We had a wonderful day sharing our favourite stoires, drawing book characters and making book marks. 

World Book Day

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 5:22pm

Year 4 celebrated World Book Day by talking part in a BBC Live Lesson. During the live lesson, children from around the UK were reading at the same time! The childremn discussed their favourite genres and places to read.

The class then read an information text about the benefits of reading and created an acrostic poem using the information gathered. 

 

Year 5 - World Book Day

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 4:32pm

We had an exciting and interesting World Book Day - we were visited by Princesses, witches and wizards, authors and many, many more. We talked about our favourite books, authors and books that had been made into films. We then took part in a fun quiz about our last class novel 'Kensuke's Kingdom' and then a special World Book Day quiz.

Year 6 - The Attic

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 3:34pm

This afternoon, Year 6 spent time in our library picking new books. We dicussed which books they had chosen and why? We finished the session by reading our class novel 'Pig Heart Boy'. 

Year 3- World Book Day!

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 2:28pm

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, the children were invited to come in dressed up as a book character. We had a range of creative costumes from Harry Potter to an Ancient Egyptian! The children enjoyed going up into the library and reading a book, we also completed a book review and spoke about who we were dressed up as.

Acorns - World book day

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 2:13pm

Acorns loved engaging in world book day activities. We looked fantastic in our outfits.


We enjoyed lots of mark making with crayons until they quit and we had to use different mediums including paint and chalk instead.

We all engaged in listening to the story for a short burst and loved listening to each other’s stories that we came dressed up in.

Year 2 World Book Day!

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 1:57pm

How incredible do we all look?! What a turn out for World Book Day 2025. Today we all dressed as our favourite book characters. We used our oracy skills to talk about who we were and why we picked our character. We then solved some book themed riddles and wrote our own riddle about our character. 

World Book Day - Beech Class

Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 11:01am

We were very excited to come to school today dressed as our favourite book characters. We started the day by taking part in our whole school assembly, before coming back to class to complete lots of World Book Day related activities! We drew pictures of us in our costumes, wrote sentences to explain who we were, read different stories and made World Book Day bookmarks. 

Nursery Try to Capture the Evil Pea!

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:42pm

We have been reading the story "Supertato" and came to school to find that the Evil Pea had captured all the veggies and then disappeared! We decided we needed to find the Evil Pea so we made some Wanted Posters. The children drew a picture of the Evil Pea and then wrote P for pea. Let's hope it helps to capture the Evil Pea! 

Nursery Visit the Library

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:33pm

Nursery had a visit from Zoe who works for the library service. We were very excitied to show her our school Library and Zoe was equally excited to see it! While she was here, Zoe read us a Supertato story and then we were given a Bookstart pack to take home with some lovely stories to share at home. 

Year 5 - Up in the Attic

Date: 3rd Feb 2025 @ 7:42pm

This week pupils in year 5 visited The Attic to select a reading book from the school's library. After finding a book and discussing it with friends, pupils spent time reading in the relaxing, comfortable space.

Nursery Create Story Maps

Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 9:47pm

In Nursery we have a focus story that we base our learning around for 1 - 2 weeks.The children become familair with the story and are able to retell it using probs and pictures. To support this, we have started to create story maps where the children place pictures in the correct order to retell the story. The chidlren are becoming familair with the vocabulary of first, next, then and finally, 

 

Book Club

Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 12:39pm

This half term, the Book Club has been getting comfortable in The Attic and immersing themselves in the book, 'The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams - Big Berry Robbery' by our local, visiting author Shane Hegarty. In the story so far, we have met some very interesting characters including, Liam (aka Limpet, who is often dressed as a cucumber and smells of onions), the eccentric Mrs Cricket (who lives on a roundabout inhabited by fairies), the evil, rival ice cream shop owner Mr Fluffy and a chicken that walks around on a dogs lead called Curtis! Every Tuesday, we look forward to hearing the latest escapades of Limpet and his friends in their quest to discover who indeed has stolen the Miracle Berry- an essential ingredient for any ice cream parlour taking part in the Golden Sprinkle Awards!

Year 2- Visit to the library

Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 8:15am

This week we went up to the library, we read a story as a class before we all chose a book to bring back to class and enjoy.

Nursery and the Pirates

Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 2:47pm

This week nursery were lucky enough to listen to a story told my the author Dan Worsley. The story had a pirate theme and the chidlren were hooked! When we got back to nursery, we decdied to carry on the Pirate theme and raided our Pirate box! The chidlren made up their own stories using small world figures and then made a pirate ship out of wooden blocks.We had such a wonderful time that we decided to carry on the pirate theme next week! 

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