Story Telling
To mark National Storytelling week our school librarians ran a competition across school to celebrate and showcase our amazing story tellers. Take a look at some of our amazing story […]
Category Archives: Reading
Our work linked to reading within the academy
World Book Day
We’ve had an amazing day today celebrating all things books. Our celebration of books and reading is lasting the whole week because we love books so much! The children have […]
Meet us by the steelmen
Y3SE had a great day exploring their steelmen trail around Sheffield. Using their Geo Doodle books they looked for answers to the clues which led them to Meadowhall, where they […]
Hilary Ford Award 📚⭐️
Well done to all of our Hilary Ford Award winners for the hard work and dedication they have shown towards their reading this term!
Reading breakfast in Y4B 🥐📖
Y4B welcomed parents for a breakfast reading session with the children, continental style with croissants and orange juice.
Reading Breakfast in Y3
A wonderful start to the week- sharing our reading experiences with our grown ups and showing them the wonderful opportunities we have in school! What a fantastic turn out!
Reading Buddies
This afternoon Y4G went up to visit our buddies in Y6J. We had fun sharing books and reading to each other!
Y4B Stone Age Story maps 📖
We enjoyed creating a ‘Crood’ story map together, then had a go at publishing our own…
Y4B do drama and dialogue 🎭
Using drama to rehearse dialogue was great fun today! Our immersive reading area and desks became caves and groups sat around a campfire to mimic our model text.
Guided reading with a poetry focus in Y4B 📖
Our class immersive text has a poetry epigraph, which we have enjoyed exploring this week 📖
Drama in Y6G
In our literacy lesson today, we acted out different sections from our class text – Wonder – to explore August’s feelings throughout his first day of school. This will help […]
World Book Day: Michael Rosen Live
We were very lucky to have the opportunity to join Michael Rosen’s live World Book Day event yesterday. It was wonderful to listen to him performing some of his poems, […]
Happy readers!
Big smiles all round as some pupils choose themselves a new book from our reading chest for all their hard work. They can’t wait to get reading them!
Year 6 Vocabulary Parade for World Book Day📚
It has been wonderful having our pupils dress up as words for World Book Day to help develop their vocabulary. Year 6 loved sharing their costumes in our ‘Vocabulary Parade’ […]
Y5F World Book Day 2022
To celebrate World Book Day we thought about how we could represent different words. Y5F did a brilliant job! We had words such as “ exhausted”, “ unique”, “eccentric” and […]
Drop everything and read! 📚
We’ve loved spending lots of time today reading our favourite books during our stop everything and read time📚 It’s also been wonderful to hear pupils recommending books to others and […]
Science ambassador meeting
In this week’s meeting the science ambassadors sorted through some new science fiction books ready for them to be delivered to each classroom. They can’t wait to share them with […]
No technology day in Y6
In literacy, Y6 worked collaboratively to read and retrieve information from a range of different sources to develop their understanding of the Sheffield Blitz. They worked incredibly hard in their […]
Mokee Joe is coming… a very exciting author visit ✍️
Today, we had the great pleasure of spending the morning with the amazing Peter J. Murray. Keeping us gripping onto the edge of our seats with his nail biting tales […]