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English, EYFS

Our Latest EYFS Library Visit

10th July 2023

The children of EYFS all enjoyed a fabulous trip to the library today which tied into our Explorer theme. The children of F1 sharing their Walking Through the Jungle book and F2 shared our “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. The librarian commented on what amazing storytellers that we all are! We really enjoyed our story sessions and exploring...
English

Easter Activities

28th March 2023
English, Nursery

F1 Stay and Play

27th March 2023

F1 have had a lovely week inviting parents in to join us for some phonics based stay & play sessions. The children loved sharing their learning with their grown ups and tried really hard with some new phonics activities. Thank you to all that came along and I really hope you found it useful and enjoyed seeing how your...
English, EYFS

Designing a boat for Noi's Dad

17th February 2023

As part of our learning about The Storm Whale in Winter, we have been designing a new boat for Noi's Dad. We began with some floating and sinking experiments, making predictions about different objects and testing them out. Then, we looked at photos of a variety of different boats and talked about their features. Next we designed our own...
English, Y4, Y6

Virtual Author

17th February 2023

Year 4 and Year 6 enjoyed a virtual author visit with Robin Scott-Elliot as part of Tameside's Ready Steady Read festival. The children enjoyed listening to what inspired Robin to become an author and found out about his latest release - Hide and Seek. They were even treated to an exclusive cover reveal of his future book - Sweet...
English, EYFS, Y4

Preparation for our Celebration of Writing in 4P

8th February 2023

4P have peer revising and editing their writing before they share their journey stories with F2 this week as part of their celebration of writing. The children ensured they followed our writing success criteria and made changes to their writing to make it entertaining for others.
English, EYFS

Talk for Writing in F2

31st January 2023

In the first part of our Winter topic, the children of F2 loved engaging in our class text of Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. The children re-enacted the text on our small world table and look part in some creative Talk for Writing activities. We played freeze framing, where the children froze as various scenes in the story and...
English, EYFS, Nursery

EYFS Reading

30th January 2023

Booktrust Storytime Denton Library
English, Y3, Y5

Y5 & Y3 'Wolves in the wall'

9th December 2022

The children in Year 5 have been writing nightmare stories over the last few weeks based around the book ‘Wolves in the Wall’. Once they had finished their stories, they read them to the Year 3’s. The Year 5’s really enjoyed having an audience to read their stories to and the Year 3’s all agreed that the stories were...
English

December news from Tameside Libraries

8th December 2022

Tameside Winter Mini Challenge poster December BB Theres an elf in your library Dec 22
English, Y3, Y5

‘Wolves in the Wall’

28th November 2022

The children in Year 5 have been writing nightmare stories over the last few weeks based around the book ‘Wolves in the Wall’. Once they had finished their stories, they read them to the Year 3’s. The Year 5’s really enjoyed having an audience to read their stories to and the Year 3’s all agreed that the stories were...
Art, English, Maths, Y5

Posters, poems and comprehension!

14th May 2020

More fantastic work from Year 5 submitted to Class Dojo. Cody has written a wonderful poem about his time in lockdown, how much he misses everyone and his frizzy hair! Amelie has designed an excellent poster encouraging everyone to stay happy and demonstrating social distancing with monsters! Finally, Ella has been hard at work completing extra comprehensions and maths...
English, EYFS, Nursery

Jack and the Beanstalk and Goldilocks

12th May 2020

Before school closed children in F1 took home a seed and planted it. Ellen has sent in this photo of hers which is now 45cm high! Each morning she is counting the leaves t see if it has grown. also, Lottie has been enjoying reading about Jack and the Beanstalk, rearranging jumbled sentences, making story maps and written her...
English, Maths

Phonics at home

11th May 2020

Alba has been using plastic cups for her phonic work, blending letters to make words. She has also been counting Lego brick and putting them into the correct number cup. Keep up the hard work.
English, History, Maths, Y1, Y3

Year 3 Hard at work...

11th May 2020

Year 3 continue to lead the way with their exceptionally hard work. Raymond has been working hard learning about the parts of a plant and keeping up with his RE work; at home Connor has been concentrating really hard and produced some brilliant work; whilst Fern has written a wonderful poem about walking in the PE district; Logan and...
English

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

5th May 2020

Sofia has been listening to Goldilocks and the Three Bears story which she really enjoyed. She has then done some role play with the bears sat at the table with their porridge and Sofia playing Goldilocks. It looks like you had a wonderful time.
All Pupils, English, History

VE Day celebration

5th May 2020

Jessica and Mollie have been hard at work learning about WW2. To help celebrate the girls decided to organise a 'Stay At Home Street Party' to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. They wrote a letter and posted to their neighbours to encourage them to remember our heroes. they even had a...
English, Maths, Y3

Wonderful reading and maths

5th May 2020

Our Year 3 pupils continue to be busy, which Mrs Farrell is most impressed with. James has continued to work very hard at home and has especially been enjoying reading the The Midnight Gang by David Walliams and has completed lots of maths work including work on fractions and using part-whole models. Brilliant work and keep it up.
Curriculum, English, EYFS, Nursery

Rainbows and The Hungry Caterpillar

1st May 2020

More brilliant work has been sent in this time a wonderful lego rainbow to thank all of the key workers and brilliant lego work to go along with F1's story of the Hungry Caterpillar
Curriculum, English, History, Science, Y1, Y4

Brilliant Home Learning

1st May 2020

Isabella and Jasmine continue to be busy keeping up with their home learning. Isabella has produced a fantastic report all about St. George, whilst Jasmine has been finding out where our food comes from. Well done girls and keep up the hard work.