Hello #SixforSunday crew! How are you all doing today? What is going on in your worlds? It's a cold and wet day here in Newcastle! The perfect day for snuggling up with a book and not facing the world. A perfect day for thinking about books in lots of capacities! The perfect day for today's … Continue reading S4S – Books I read at school
Hello friends! Happy Sunday to you all! How are you on this grey, chilly Sunday in Newcastle? We're here for another #SixforSunday post I guess! Today we're talking about something which I love thinking about: Chracters I'd love to be friends with Now, let me get this straight, I was one of those people at … Continue reading S4S – Characters I’d love to be friends with…
Hola #SixforSunday pals! How are you all doing? What's happening on this Sunday afternoon? I've just been doing a bit of work ready for next week and now I'm sitting down to do next week's blog posts... Today I'm interpreting the #SixforSunday prompt a little differently to how I would normally... we're talking Schools you'd … Continue reading S4S – Fictional schools
Hello! How are you all? Today, I thought I would share some pictures of the books my class are reading... cause they're all reading some absolute corkers. Starting this academic year, I really wanted to get my kids excited about books and about reading. I'm such an advocate for reading for pleasure that I want … Continue reading What we’re reading!
The title for this blog has LITERALLY just come to me as I start to type. It is ironic in that it is both true and one of the things I'm going to be mentioning in this blog post. So... we're HALF WAY THROUGH THE ACADEMIC YEAR. Ahem. Yeah, that's a thing. I'm half way … Continue reading WOOOOOOAH WE’RE HALF WAY THERE…
I Am Human: a beautiful picture book, delivering an important message of empathy "I am human I am a work in progress Striving to be the best version of ME From the picture book dream team behind I Am Yoga and I Am Peace comes the third book in their wellness series: I Am Human. A hopeful meditation on all … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: Susan Verde
To coincide with National Poetry Day, we celebtrated at school with Poetry Week, where our English lessons all centred around poems. We in Year 5 had already done a week of poetry (it's what I started the year with), so when it came round the celebrating Poetry Week, the kids were enthused to say the … Continue reading Blackout poetry
Recently, I have been given the task of leading the school library, and I have to say it is my utter delight to embrace it. I'm aware I am in a very lucky position that we have an actual library (it's shelves in the corridor at the minute) and that many schools aren't as fortunate … Continue reading Libraries are for winners!
Hello! Happy Tuesday! How are we all? Today, I'm sharing some of the books I've read recently that I adored because of their incredible illustrations! These books are perfect for our Year 2s/Year 3s. They're all going down brilliantly at school and our kids are screaming out for more! I'd love to know what books … Continue reading Brilliantly beautiful books…
Yes, We're getting to that time of year again.. SATs time. Now, they don't HAVE to be stressful. I know schools all deal with them differently. There is no right way for the collective, there's only a right way for your school, for your kids. For us, we bring the kids in early, ensure they … Continue reading Y6 SATS Survival
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