7 Mar

Y1 and Y5 World Book Day

Thank you to Year 5 for sharing books with us. We enjoyed listening to stories that you read.

7 Mar

Y4 World Book Day

What an exciting World Book Day we have had! Our costumes were amazing. Can you recognise any characters from the class photo? We started the day hearing all about the first books and when they were published. We then designed a footprint showing our favourite books to display in school to lead…

7 Mar

Year 2 World Book Day

We have had a brilliant World Book Day. We have read loads and had fun!
 

31 Jan

DT- looking at different bread textures

After reading The Little Red Hen, we looked at different types of bread. We looked at the texture,  the colour and what we thought about each one. 

18 Jan

Household objects with magical powers

In a few weeks, we are going to write a fantasy story so today we looked at different household objects and discussed how they could be incorporated into our stories with magical powers. We had lots of ideas.

29 Nov

Dragon hunting and prepositions

This afternoon, Year 2 went dragon hunting around the school. We found quite a few and we’re using prepositions to describe where we found them.

under the cone

behind the book shelf

amongst the books

24 Nov

Pied Piper of Hamelin (by Robert Browning)

We have been reading the story and the poem of The Pied Piper of Hamelin.  Last week we learnt some of the first verse off by heart.  We hope you enjoy it!

 

20 Nov

Bossy Verb Hunt

We enjoyed exploring the classroom for bossy verbs, these were spotted through our instructions.

14 Nov

Adventures with Traction Man

We really enjoyed making our own adventures with Traction Man.

10 Nov

Remembering World War 1

Year 6 are currently learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the…

19 Oct

Year 6 quizmasters at work

This term in Year 6 we have been reading the story “Stay Where You Are and then Leave” by John Boyne. As we near the end of the novel, we have decided to test each other’s knowledge of the story by writing our own quizzes on Purple Mash. Once they have been created, we will be able to share them…

6 Oct

Tony Peek (Poet) in Year 3

To celebrate National Poetry Day, the poet Tony Peek came to Scotforth and visited Year 3 (as well as all the other classes!)  He performed lots of his poems (we particularly enjoyed his funny ones!) and helped us to write some alliteration poems and rhymes. We are looking forward to reading his…