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Room on the Broom

We are doing the story of “Room on the Broom” for Hallowe’en this week. This is a lovely video version of the story.


The Elves and the Shoemaker

We are doing the story of the Elves and the Shoemaker this week. Here is a nice version of the story to look at.


Flat Stanley by Second Class

We enjoyed reading Flat Stanley as our first novel. Thank you to all the parents who sent in photographs of Stanley with members of second class. We worked in small groups to write about the story or the different activities we participated in. Stanley Lambchop got flattened by a bulletin board that fell on him while he was sleeping. He caught sneak thieves pretending to
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Baa Baa Black Sheep Video

Our new rhyme this week is Baa Baa Black sheep and we have been doing some activities based on this rhyme.


Open Shut Them Song

We are learning this song this week. It teaches opposite words as well as manners words. It is fun.


Mrs. Honey’s Hat

This week we are reading the story of Mrs. Honey’s Hat. You can listen to the story here.


Hickory Dickory Dock

We are doing some work on the Hickory Dickory Dock rhyme this week. This is a nice video of the rhyme.


Elmer the Elephant

We read a story about Elmer the Elephant. Elmer was different from the other elephants because he was lots of colours. So he covered himself in blackberry juice to make himself look like the other elephants. But then the rain came and washed off all the blackberry juice. All the elephants then made themselves all different colours and then Elmer covered himself in blackberry
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6th Class Interview Author Marilyn Taylor

6th Class are just completing a class novel called “Faraway Home” by Marilyn Taylor. It tells the story of two Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria called Karl and Rosa who are sent on a Kindertransport to Millisle Farm in Northern Ireland. We organised an interview with the author, Marilyn Taylor. We each came up with three questions about the novel on our class blog
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RACE NIGHT

A race night to raise funds for a new set of supplementary readers for the school, will be held in The Strand Bar on Friday 7th June. Please come out to support and return your cards to school by Friday, 31st May. We look forward to a great night! Many thanks to all parents involved!