Willow class have been visited by story teller Steve Manning. He has told the children a variety of different stories about animals. The children then drew. pictures of some one the characters from the stories they heard. A great afternoon had by all. www.stevemanningstorytelling.co.uk
The children have enjoyed a visit from local author Clare Helen Walsh. www.clarehelenwelsh.com Clare shared her stories with us in an assembly and then each class enjoyed a wonderful shadow puppet workshop based on her book Scissorella. They all had a wonderful time.
The Parcel by Theatre Alibi. A giant parcel arrives at your school. And, as if that isn’t strange enough, it soon becomes clear that there are two people living inside it! They tell the children that this is their way of life – they simply put their finger on a map, choose an address and…
The children in year 1 have been working hard to become independent writers. The children use word mats to support this. Here is a recent example of some beautiful writing.
For the past few weeks, Oak class have been looking at the book ‘Five Bears’ by Catherine Rayner. We created a class story map to help us to retell the story orally and with actions. We then had a go at creating our own story maps too. We looked at the different skills we might…
Theatre Alibi visited Kenton Primary. We loved listening to the story telling and enjoyed the beautiful songs and dancing. Willow children commented on how they loved to see beautiful colours and material appear from underneath the actors’ clothes.