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We enjoyed a lovely time reading and having juice and biscuits with our Nursery friends to round off our World Book Day celebrations.

Year 4 dressed up today in a selection of amazing costumes for World Book Day. 
Can you recognise any book characters that we have dressed up as? 

We have enjoyed listening stories today. Thank you  to Y3 for coming and reading to us. We love to see you. 

As part of World Book Week we read dinosaur books with our Reception buddies.

As part of World Book Week we had a visit from our Year 5 buddies. They read a selection of dinosaur books with us. 

We walked through Dorrington Wood to look for storybook characters. We were very excited to find “Where’s Wally ?” and “The very hungry caterpillar.”A big thank you to y3 who held our hands very tightly.

Year 6 started their celebrations for World Book Day today, by going down to the woods with Year 2 to help them solve the picture clues on our book trail.

We also shared some of our favourite stories with Year 2, which we really enjoyed and we hope they did too.

We had a lovely time with our buddies on the book trail through Dorrrington Wood as part of our World Book celebrations.

We had a lovely time with our buddies on the book trail through Dorrrington Wood as part of our World Book celebrations.

Yesterday we made our own instruction sheets for a board game of our choice. 
Today we used the instructions to help us set up and play the games in groups. We evaluated each other and found something they had done really well and something they could improve next time. 

We have been exploring the story and characters from The Highwayman. Recently we have written our own stories and speeches linked to this dramatic poem. We have edited them and presented them in neat for display. Enjoy reading them!

We have been investigating The Highwayman poem in literacy and discussing who was to blame to the death of Bess the landlord’s daughter. Our chief suspects are Tim the ostler, The Highwayman, Bess herself and the Red-Coat soldiers.  In groups we wrote formal, persuasive speeches to try to persuade…