Well done to Owls Reading Challenge Winner this week! Enjoy your new book 📚 #TheGatesReading #TheGatesEnglish
The Owls had a really exciting trip to Westhoughton Library this week. We enjoyed meeting the librarian, hearing stories and choosing our own books to read #TheGatesEnglish #TheGatesEnrichment
A fabulous end to the Spring term with our acrostic poems and recital. Absolutely wonderful work Puffins!☺️✨ #TheGatesEnglish
As part of our English curriculum, each class is learning a poem off by heart to perform, ours is The British by Professor Benjamin Zephaniah. Here is a small snippet of us practising a verse in our fluency lessons. #TheGatesEnglish
Look at this amazing matching of capital letters and lowercase letters in our English lesson 👏🏼 #TheGatesEnglish
Super spotting of people, animals and objects in the picture to help with their predictions for the story 🔎 #TheGatesEnglish
Well done to our Reading Challenge Winner this week! Enjoy your new book 📚 #TheGatesReading #TheGatesEnglish
We practised our spellings outside this morning using short and tall boxes to show the upper and lower case letters #TheGatesEnglish
Some great outfits this week for World Book Day! We spoke about our costumes and had the opportunity to met up with the Puffins class for a fairytale quiz.
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In English we are making reasoned arguments to help save our playtime! Here isa first collaborative effort to thwart this dastardly plan. #TheGatesEnglish
We had a wonderful trip to Westhoughton Library today. We had a look at the books on offer and learnt about some local history. #TheGatesReading #TheGatesEnglish
We are nearing the end of our writing unit, with the children putting together poetry to say what they can see, hear, smell, touch and taste throughout the autumn season 🍂 #TheGatesEnglish
Today we found a surprise on our class Christmas tree. It was a letter from Santa Claus! What a surprise, we were so excited! We shared the letter together and enjoyed answering his questions. #TheGatesEnglish
Someone came to school and made a mess! Mr Robins needed our help. We made predictions about who we thought it was and used the word ‘because’ to explain why. #TheGatesEnglish
Today we compared different instruction texts to identify the features and also to discuss which text was the stronger example. We talked about what instruction texts needed and why ready for when we write our own instructions about Ancient Greece food #TheGatesEnglish
