Literacy
Can rabbits dance?
Solving riddles by cracking codes at Blaydon library!
This is afternoon we had a great time at Blaydon Library! We got into groups to act out some book titles for other people to guess- some of them were trickier to guess than others! Then Maria read out some book titles and we had to decide if they were real book titles...
Year 3 and 4 love visiting Blaydon Library!
This morning, Year 3 and 4 enjoyed another fantastic visit to the library! We enjoyed a preview of a brand new book which hasn't yet been released- how exciting! We then had the opportunity to draw, describe and create some designs for our very own tree houses based...
Using Film in Literacy
Year 4 enjoyed looking at some film stills and captions to work out the storyline behind an epic explorer discovering a tomb from Ancient Egypt. They discussed the scenes, the atmosphere and described what they could see. Following this they looked at all of the...
Our first mystery reader of the Summer holidays was…
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Spectacular Spelling Fun!
In Year 3, we have been having great fun practising our spellings using a range of different activities. This week we have been using the rocket game to help us practise how to add the 'ly' suffix onto a range of different root words. Check out how much fun we...
Live Tales Workshop
This morning Year 3 and Year 4 enjoyed a fantastic workshop at the Live Theatre in Newcastle using their creative writing skills! During the workshop they worked as a team to write the beginning of a story with the title - The Rise of the Epic Fat Man. They all worked...
Prepositions, prepositions, prepositions!
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Storybird workshop.
Today we had a visit from Thorpe Academy's librarian who taught us how to use online story maker: Storybird. Using this website, we can create our own online books that we can share with others. We can't wait to start creating our own...
Bedtime stories from Blaydon library!
For world book day this year we have all come to school in our pajamas! We have brought in our favourite bedtime stories in to share with each other. We were lucky enough to have a visit from Blaydon library! We heard some spooky stories...not too spooky though! As...
Our mystery reader today was even a mystery to Miss Donnelly
Fiction or Non-Fiction – That is The Question
In preparation for creating their very own minibeast fact posters, the children have been exploring a wide range of bug-based books in order to gain a better understanding of the similarities and differences in relation to fiction and non-fiction texts, particularly...