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 […]
Our work linked to reading within the academy
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Well done to all of our Hilary Ford Award winners for the hard work and dedication they have shown towards their reading this term!
Y4B welcomed parents for a breakfast reading session with the children, continental style with croissants and orange juice.
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!
This afternoon Y4G went up to visit our buddies in Y6J. We had fun sharing books and reading to each other!
We enjoyed creating a ‘Crood’ story map together, then had a go at publishing our own…
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.
Our class immersive text has a poetry epigraph, which we have enjoyed exploring this week 📖
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 […]
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, […]
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!
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’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]