Curriculum Impact Tag: English

This half term the children have been reading the story of 'The Three Little Pigs'. They are having lots of fun with their friends building new homes using bricks, sticks, straw and playdough for the pigs. The children are talking about the strongest house and sharing their ideas of what to do…

Our young writers have been exploring the world of tigers through poetry. We began by developing our vocabulary, sorting a range of descriptive words into three categories: movement, appearance and behaviour. Next, we used our vocabulary to create descriptive phrases about tigers, experimenting…

The children have enjoyed seeing all their friends again today after our half term break.  They have settled back in superbly and particularly impressed us with the way they remembered the sign of the cross and daily prayers.  Throughout the day they have been deeply engaged in many different…

As one of our focused activities this week we have been playing ‘I spy’ with some of the objects found in the Three Little Pigs story.  

Lancashire Hawks and Owls visited Y2 to tell them all about these amazing birds.

Given the weather forecast for the rest of the week, we took advantage of the beautiful autumn sunshine yesterday and took our play to our forest school area.  The children used their muscles to lift and carry pumpkins and explore cause and effect.  We found a large number of ladybirds so we…

In English we are reading ‘Home’ by Carson Ellis which is a wonderful book about different homes around the world. The children have enjoyed looking at the pictures and have used some of these to create their own homes. They have been describing their creations and sharing their images with…

In Reception we have been learning a poem all about mini beasts.  This afternoon we went into the hall and performed it for the All Day Nursery children.  Reception have worked really hard on their ‘Poetry Voices’ and Nursery loved listening to it.  Well done Reception! Great Performance.…

This week we are looking at poetry around mini beasts

and as part of our work we all going on a mini beast hunt.  The children have loved being in the garden and searching for all the places that the little beasts may be hiding.  We have been learning some new vocabulary related to mini…

Using the natural objects around us the children are using tools to practise their pre writing skills. 

After reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy, some of the children chose to explore and build a rocket with the wooden blocks.  They explored how to position the blocks in different ways using the language big, bigger, small, smaller.  

As part of our introduction to nursery we have been creating some spoon friends, this is also a chance for the adults in nursery to have some one-to-one time with the children and we build relationships and connections.

Look at our amazing creations.