Year 6 have been challenged with reading a certain about of pages each week in their guided read and reading for pleasure books. If they achieve that total they will either received a milkshake or free time. If they read with their Parents/Carers, they also receive a biscuit. Here are our first winners.
During their lunchtime club today the school librarians have begun to create bookmarks. The idea behind this is to have bookmarks for children to take and use while using the library. Take a look at some of the ones we have competed below.
This week our focus book has been Supertato. The Evil Pea has escaped in Sunflower class, he stole our number 3! The children have made traps, investigated and tried to capture the Evil Pea.
This week, EYFS have enjoyed having Year 6 children come read to us. We chose some of our favourite stories and had new readers everyday.
Year 2 really enjoyed listening to the story of Nefertiti today. They were making different sounds for being nervous and being scared. We also did some singing too.
Daffodil class have had a fantastic morning listening to author Annemarie Anyang share her story Nefertiti through the magic of storytelling and music.
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We returned to class today to discover an abandoned suitcase. We asked lots of questions and were extremely intrigued by the contents of the suitcase. We began to make predictions to who it might belong to and what this terms texts could be about.
Today year 4 took part in the live lesson ran by the British Library. We had the pleasure of listening to Michael Rosen. Tell us wonderful food stories while an illustrator drew live images to match each part.
This morning, we had a lovely session listening to the book Goldilocs by Ella McLeod. Then we watched as the illustration was demonstrated by Rochelle Falconer, where we followed her instructions to draw our own bear.
To celebrate World Book Day, we have watched a video by the British Library. We listened to Michael Rosen read a story around food, whilst an illustrator drew some images alongside it. As we were listening, we had a go at drawing our own illustrations based on food. What a wonderful lesson we had!
Look how fantastic Daffodil class look dressed as characters from their favourite books. Thank you to all the families for taking part in this wonderful event to celebrate the year of reading.📚
We’ve had a wonderful morning celebrating the joy of reading. The children spent time decorating their own bookmarks and discussing their favourite books. We finished the morning with some relaxing reading for pleasure time – a perfect way to enjoy the magic of books! 📚
In year six, we enjoyed our last World book day at St Finbar’s. We have enjoyed a live stream and trip to our wonderful school library. We have created our own stories and book monster bookmarks. Don’t they look fabulous in their costumes!
Daffodil class were treated to a visit from our Year 6 Rose class. They read some fantastic books and shared their love of reading.
This afternoon year 1 took part in a great author event to help celebrate our love of reading. We listened to the story ‘Once upon a remix: Meet Goldilocs’, a fairytale with a twist by author Ella McLeod and learnt how to draw a bear with illustrator Rochelle Falconer.
We have had lots of fun today and our costumes were amazing! We have written book reviews for the school library. We have designed world book day tokens to enter the competition for next years voucher designs and even spent some time in the library.
Year 2 had a lovely World Book Day. We got all dressed up and we read our favourite stories. We read 2 other books today, The Gruffalo and The Day the Crayons Quit. Don’t they all look amazing!
During world book day, Year 6 buddied up with their little friends in Nursery, Reception and Year 1 for some reading for pleasure. Year six were really thinking about how they could confidently read and share their love of reading with the littlest learners of St Finbar’s.
Sunflower class decided to create their own houses, just like the Three Little Pigs. Were their homes sturdy enough to withstand the Big Bad Wolf’s huff?
We have loved drawing club this week, the book has inspired lots of lovely role play and retelling of the story. We have ordered size and built our own houses.
Today, year 2 had a lovely morning celebrating St George’s Day in St George’s Hall in the city centre. We had a story telling session about St George and the Dragon. afterwards we listened to a beautiful Organ Recital. This is the third biggest Organ in the UK with some of the pipes over 9 metres tall!
To celebrate St George’s Day, we visited St George’s Hall to watch a performance of the legend and hear the fantastic organ being played.
What a fantastic morning we have had practising segmenting and blending some monster words and practising reading our split diagraphs.
