Gruffalo Crumble

The past 2 weeks have been spent immersing ourselves in the Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. We have written descriptions of characters, practiced using 'said' in our writing and made Gruffalo Crumble. From this experience we were able to write a set of instructions and become food critics for the day explaining what we did and didn't like about the dessert. Our team work was wonderful, taking turns and sharing out the responsibilities. We have some real expert chefs in our class!

Naia peels the apples whilst Shelby carefully cuts them

Mixing the fruit with the cinnamon

Sprinkle the Crumble on top!

Jackson enjoying the fruits of his labour

Naia gave it a go but wasn't too keen.

Cross Country

On Friday 18th of August we all hopped on a bus and headed out to Five Forks school to compete in the Combined Country Schools  Cross Country. We had been practicing most days after lunch so we were all in peak condition for the race. After some initial nerves, we overcome those butterflied tummies and ran exceptionally well. Check out some of our action shots!

The girls warming up!

Jack and the beanstalk

Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum!

I smell the blood of an Englishman!

Be he alive or be he dead,

I'll grind his bones to make my bread!

Our English genre this term in Narratives so we have been exploring the well known Jack and the Beanstalk. We have read different versions of the story and commented on our preferences explaining why. Some of us have been working on expanding our use of punctuation and noticed that the story had lots of exclamation marks. We came up with our own threats for the Giant.








At this age, visual literacy, drama and speaking and listening are really important parts of the learning process. It improves one's creativity and critical thinking as well as developing language skills. We made puppets and put on puppet shows to our peers orally rehearsing some of our ideas later used in our writing.

Creating our Jack and the Beanstalk puppets

Presenting our puppet shows to the class

Our new pupils were keen to show their skills