The Nowhere Emporium – Year 5

By Sophie Porteous15th September 2025

The children in Year 5 received a mysterious golden invitation inviting them to visit and explore the wonders of the “Nowhere Emporium”. They excitedly entered the smaller classroom in the Y56 POD only to discover that it had transformed – as if by magic – into an emporium of wonders!

There were dragons and owls, cards and potions, a well-dress mannequin, jewels and an array of other intriguing objects that captured our attention and sent our imaginations running wild.

When they returned to their classrooms, the children discovered that they would be reading “The Nowhere Emporium” this term and that their writing work would be centered around this book.

It was certainly a fantastic ‘hook’ to get us all excited for our English lessons!

Year 4 English Hook – Cinderella

By Mr S MORGAN8th September 2025

Today year 4 launched their new English unit with a mysterious box….

They were tasked with identifying which story they will be reading in English over the next few weeks. As each item was revealed, they had to use their inference skills and piece the clues together. Very tricky until a single slipper was revealed!

We can’t wait to get stuck into ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ by Shirley Climo and read the amazing work which is sure to follow!

Pharaoh Skyla with her slipper, scroll, papyrus, sand, pyramid and jewelry. 

Trip Trapping…

By Jodie Buss7th May 2025

The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff!

What a fabulous morning F2 had bringing their traditional tale to life!!!

We have been learning the story of ‘The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’ the past few weeks and learning how to retell the story using our story signifiers and props!

Today we performed the story to each other, dressing up and acting out the main events and problems that occur.

WE loved seeing Mrs Buss dress up as a troll and trying to cross the bridge to the sweet green grass! This inspired us to act out the story on our own in groups outside, using traditional tale and story language! We had some great troll voices and impressions and enjoyed making sturdy bridges to safely guide the goats across!

This activity allowed the children opportunities to play and act out their literacy, developing oracy and language skills. It allowed children opportunities for modelling language, turn taking, sharing and building confidence…

We love the photos below capturing that fun, love, excitement and love for learning and reading!

Y1 wow day: pirate adventures!

By Leonnie Carrick2nd May 2025

Ahoy there! Year 1 had an exciting start to our new topic Land Ahoy with a fantastic Pirate Wow Day! Everyone came dressed as pirates – hats, hooks, eye patches and all!

We learned how to talk like pirates and practised our best pirate voices. We even drew portraits of ourselves as fearsome sea captains! To kick off our topic, we learned a fun poem called ‘I Wish I Was a Pirate’, which got us all in the pirate spirit.

The highlight of the day was a treasure hunt around the school – What a swashbuckling start to our new adventure!

Food tasting… with a difference!

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD19th March 2025

Today we have been food tasting in F1.  The food from The Gruffalo story!  The children have tried roasted fox…

Jacob said, “It’s delicious.”

Millie said, “I like the black bits.”  They were the tips of the foxes’ noses!

Brody said,  “I like the nose I did.”

They tried owl ice cream…

Katie said, “It smells like owl.”

Bobby asked, “Can I have more?”

“I like it!  I like it cold,” said Trixie.

Then we tried scrambled snake!

Charlotte noticed, “It looks like springs!”

Jacob said, “It smells like snake slither!”

“Can I have more?” asked Levi.

A very successful day.  Well done everyone.

 

F1’s snowstorm

By Mrs C SILVERWOOD12th March 2025

As part of Science Week, F1 created a swirling whirling snowstorm. We watched a clip of how the wind blows the snow around then thought about how we could move our ‘snow’.  Ella knew that wind blows the trees and snow.  Pixie knew that our boards could make ‘wind’.  The results were fantastic!

Jack and the Beanstalk!

By Jodie Buss6th March 2025

What a wonderful week F2 have had continuing with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk!

This week the beanstalk in our classroom seemed to grow even larger, reaching our classroom ceiling!!!

We found some HUGE shoes which can only belong to the GIANT as we tried them and they were much too big for us!

We have loved pretending to be the giant and answer lots of questions which we discussed together. The children played the part very well and loved our hot-seating activity! This inspired our writing and we thought of lots of good adjectives to use to describe the giant!

With lots of adventures climbing beanstalks and painting endless and endless giant leaves and beans we have had a fantastic week!

 

Y4 Mental Health Report

By Mr S MORGAN4th February 2025

Today Y4 launched their video ‘Looking After Your Mental Health’ for the start of Children’s Mental Health Week 2025. This formed part of a really interesting English project where children learned all about the importance of mental health. They then wrote reports and finally worked in groups to come up with a report which they could report. As a year group, we merged the best bits together and created this video report written by them. Huge well done to the children who presented their parts so well, and a big well done to all children for their contributions both on screen and off!

 

The Three Little Pigs!

By Jodie Buss14th January 2025

This week in F2 we had a surprise basket of props in our classroom! We had to use the clues to guess what traditional tale we would be reading… sticks, straw, bricks and a pig?! Can you guess what it is???

The Three Little Pigs!

We loved reading this story and started learning some signifiers to retell to each other!

We then went off into the classroom and became very inspired with our role-play area and puppets to retell the story and make our own boiling pot of WOLF STEW! Here’s a few snaps of how we got busy in the afternoon and fully embraced our new story!