Skipper 3

We had a brilliant World Book Day packed full of reading and stories (and potatoes!) It was amazing to see all of your character creations, Skipper 1! 🥔🥔 If you entered the Extreme Reading Challenge there is a special Celebration […]

Here are some links to games that you might like to try at home. This ‘Spin the Wheel’ game is a great way to practise writing words with split digraphs. Can you write down the spelling of each word you […]

Hello Skipper 1! Here are some things that will keep you busy at home today.  If you would like you can join me live at 9am for a quick good morning and then at 1pm for a catch up.  The […]

Today we found out a lot more about the animator Lotte Reiniger. Lotte began making her films over 100 years ago. We made storyboards of Lotte’s adaption of Cinderella. Why not share some of Lotte’s amazing films at home, there […]

Today is national Safer Internet Day and we have spent time in class discussing how we use the internet in our day-to-day lives and how to stay safe when online or when using technology with a particular focus on online […]

On Friday we looked closely at some works of art by Matisse and had fun working out what these collages were all about… Skipper 1, can anyone at home guess? We immediately set to work with paper, scissors and glue […]

Here are the new graphemes (the way a sound is written) and tricky words we learned last week:

We had a go at this fun step-by-step drawing today. If you fancy trying it at home you can click on the link below to find the instructions we used: https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2016/mar/28/how-to-draw-a-badly-disguised-wolf-bethan-woolvin

Classroom Close Up aims to show you some of the day to day activities that take place in Skipper 1. Every day the children do ‘Let’s Write’ during registration. The children are asked to respond to a picture by writing […]

In our Geometry lesson this week we looked at the majestic pyramids of Ancient Egypt.