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World Book Day 📚

12-03-2025

We had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day📚 We did lots of fun activities, we read with our reading buddies and we even read a story in the den we built as a team.
We all made our book mark and read our favourite story the colour monster, as for World Book Day we focused on colours. We know now how to mix different colours to make new colours!

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Problem Penguin

21-03-2025

We are a couple of weeks into our half term, and we have now sequenced our Problem Penguin! Only the Elephant Ending to go and then we will have yet another story under our belts 📕

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Linking letters to sounds

21-03-2025

We have been learning pictures sounds for a while, and now we are learning how to link those pictures to letters. The children were so excited when they realised that letter sounds are all around us! Some children found some sounds in our fine motor activity!

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Year 5 – Exploring and responding to clues from the text

24-04-2025

We began our new narrative in English today by immersing ourselves into the narrative, identifying what the clues told us and forming links between the objects and images. Then we made a prediction.

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English- hook

24-04-2025

Today we looked at the different items that introduce our new story. We then wrote a prediction about what we think our story is about using the items.

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Class 6MR

25-04-2025

Publishing our writing. We wrote a balanced argument about the reintroduction of wolves into the U.K.

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Year 3 – English

25-04-2025

This week we enjoyed exploring the clues to predict what our next text is about.

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Year 2 English

25-04-2025

This week we started reading The King Who Banned the Dark. We used drama to persuade the king that banning the dark world not be good.

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The Journey

28-04-2025

The first lesson of our new English unit was all about making predictions. The children enjoyed lots of discussion as we collected our ideas, making links to between objects.

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Y2 English

28-04-2025

Using our ideas for and against banning the dark, we completed a conscience alley activity.

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Y2 English

06-05-2025

2D used role play to come up with ideas about why the dark shouldn’t be banned- the King didn’t always agree with his advisors!

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How to catch a wolf🐺

08-05-2025

This week in literacy we have been following instruction on how to catch a wolf! We got everything we needed and set up our own trap. We hope we catch a wolf. 🐺

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Dictionary work

12-05-2025

4D have been using their dictionary skills to help them understand vocabulary in English.

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Year 5 star readers

17-05-2025

We loved our recent National literacy book event and sadly forgot to post about it…

We also have some star readers of our own in 5M!

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All about out half term ☀️

06-06-2025

We have done some independent writing this week! We have written all about our half term and all the fun we had. 😁

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Author Visit

09-06-2025

Y6 enjoyed finding out about Luke Temple’s books in our author visit today!

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KS2 Author visit – Luke Temple

09-06-2025

Luke shared his fantastic adventure stories with us this morning. The main character is called Felix Dashwood and Luke helped us to bring the characters to life and explore the problems that they come across.

We had a chance to ask Luke some great questions and see how the illustrator brings his characters to life too!

Signed books about Felix’s adventures and the characters she meets on her way, will be on sale in school tomorrow!

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Author Visit

09-06-2025

Such a lovely time today with our visiting Author Luke Temple. We listened carefully to different extracts from three of his books and asked a range of questions. Which book would you like to read in full?

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The Storm Whale 🐋

11-06-2025

Reception have been enjoying our English book The Storm Whale 🐋! We have been writing lots of sentences with the help of our story friends. Today Wise Owl helped us to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

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Meeting an author!

12-06-2025

Some of us met the author Luke Temple and got our book signed.
We were also excited to find his stories in our library for us to choose for reading for pleasure.

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Year One Writing

13-06-2025

Super proud of Year One and their publishing skills. Amazing diary entries all about Erin wanting to save Black Rock!

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Wolf Hunt – Year One

20-06-2025

There’s a wolf on the loose. Have you seen a wolf? Eyewitness account from Mr Boyd and evidence of scratch marks, a red cloak and a bin bag.

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Independent Writing✍️

23-06-2025

This week we have been working on our independent writing. We have had lots of fun writing this week. We have wrote all about our creations, our amazing pictures and we have even wrote about our phonics friend Fred. We are super writers !

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Reading for pleasure

27-06-2025

Every Thursday, we bring our book bags into school and choose a new book to share with our family ❤️

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English – A balanced argument

01-07-2025

Our new writing focus is to write a balanced argument, where two sides of a debate are discussed in detail.

This morning, we researched gorillas and the positives and negatives of keeping them in captivity or the wild.
Then we attempted our first debate to gather ideas for our writing.

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Ready Steady Write

02-07-2025

Octopus Opening helps us to plan our writing. Using the planning circle we planned our very own opening to our story.

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Author Zoom with Matt Goodfellow

09-07-2025

We have really enjoyed reading Matt’s book- The Final Year. He tells the story through poetry and it was brilliant to see him talking about the book on our author zoom!

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Phonics

14-07-2025

We played a great game this morning – we looked t a picture and had to listen to the sound we could hear at the beginning of the word, then we had to put the picture on top of the letter it begins with! It was tricky, but we did it so well!

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Ready Steady Read Together!

14-07-2025

5M enjoyed performing some of their favourite Stanzas in this week’s poems.

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Year One

07-09-2025

Year One have enjoyed the return to school and seeing all of their friends again. They have been sharing their summer news, taking turns when playing, practising counting skills and creating self portraits!

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Year 2 English

08-09-2025

We came in today to find clues all about our new mystery book. We had to guess what our story was about and make predictions.

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Kenning Poem

10-09-2025

Today in English, 3M wrote a kenning poem about the Iron Man. Children were then given the opportunity to perform their poem to the class.

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Ready Steady Write – Freeze frames!

15-09-2025

Today we further explored the scenes in our text to give us a better sense of the atmosphere and how our character was feeling at that moment – gathering ideas for our final piece of writing.

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Newspaper Reports

25-09-2025

Today we’ve started looking at newspaper reports in our English. We enjoyed reading exploring ‘First News’.

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Phonics

26-09-2025

Reception have been working hard on their phonics! This week they have been helping Fred 🐸 to blend CVC words and learn their first 10 sounds.

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English

29-09-2025

Reception had a visitor today! Build up Bear came to help us plan our own version of The Something. We have enjoyed reading The Something for English and can’t wait to write our very own story!

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English- planning circles

01-10-2025

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Alex Wharton Author Zoom

01-10-2025

Year 3 enjoyed listening to some of Alex Wharton’s poetry today while also finding out more about how to write poetry!

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We are Reporters…

01-10-2025

This week we have been sharing our news reports about marine mammals found around Liverpool.

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English skills

02-10-2025

4D were using a thesaurus in today’s English lesson about synonyms.

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