Dear Parents, Please find attached information about the separate KS1 and KS2 reading challenges for this year. The children have been informed about them in their assemblies today. The past two challenges have been immensely popular, so we hope that this year’s challenge will have the same success. Many thanks for your ongoing support with […]
Read MoreYear 3’s Historical Narratives
In Year 3 the children have been working so hard to produce some wonderful historical narratives. They have been using the Alan Peat sentence types to improve their writing and trying their best to use interesting, descriptive vocabulary to describe the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Thank you to Maria, Lewis, Alexandra, George and Ava for these examples of […]
Read MoreWorld Book Day
As we were in lockdown for World Book Day this year, the children enjoyed remote learning activites on World Book Day. Everybody watched videos with different authors on the day and then completed some online learning based on these! It was a quiet world book day, but enjoyable nonetheless! Watch this space for a St Catherine’s […]
Read MoreYear 3 – Here We Are
In year 3 we have been looking at ‘Here We Are’ by Oliver Jeffers. We have been thinking about how wonderful our world is, and we thought about our favourite places to be in the world. We tried to use expanded noun phrases to describe these.
Read MoreYear 1 – World Book Day
We celebrated World Book Day by sharing and reading some of our books that we had brought in from home with our cuddly reading buddies and friends in class. We created our own book review posters that we will proudly display and use to decorate in our class book corner!
Read MoreWorld Book Day 2020
There was a real buzz throughout the school yesterday, as children poured into the classrooms wearing their pyjamas, carrying their cushions and mugs, and clinging proudly to the books that they have enjoyed reading recently! World Book Day was a real success, and the children and teachers at St Catherine’s enjoyed celebrating our theme of ‘Snuggling […]
Read MoreWorld Book Day in Year 4
Y4 celebrated World Book Day by making finger puppets of their favourite characters from Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl.
Read MoreWorld Book Day In Nursery
Nursery had a great day in their PJs, snuggling up with their cushions, reading lots of different books and drinking delicious hot chocolate. Thank you to all the grown ups who helped prepare the children for the day. We had a great World Book Day!
Read MoreYear 6 Weekly Update
World Book Day This week, Y6 really enjoyed immersing themselves in World Book Day. The children loved the theme of ‘snuggling up with a good book’ and had fun coming into school in their comfy bedtime clothes. They had the opportunity to write a diary entry in role as their favourite book character, interview their […]
Read MoreBook in a Box Day
We were delighted to see such a wonderful collection of ‘Books in boxes’ throughout the school on Monday. Books were celebrated in classrooms right from Nursery up to Year 6. Some of the children (and parents!) had clearly spent a long time creating imaginative scenes or landscapes from the stories that they had read. Other […]
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