We are storytellers.

27th April 2023Sarah Winkley

Nursery have been immersed in the story of Little Red Riding Hood this week. We have been identifying the main characters, thinking and talking about what they are like and comparing the Wolf and Red Riding Hood. We have been retelling the story in a host of ways including sequencing using story stones…

We have experimented with role play and acted out the roles of our key characters in small groups using story language and we were fabulous!! Look out for our videos on Dojo!

Once upon a time…

26th April 2023Elouise Chadwick

This week we have been reading ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.

We thought about how Red Riding Hood travelled to her Granny’s house and made maps of her journey…

We enjoyed acting out the story in our story circle using props 😁 We had some great performances 👏

Ready for our journey in class 5

21st April 2023Laura Parsons

Class 5 came to school ready to make a journey! We had explorers, air hostesses and lots of excited holiday makers. We can’t wait to discover our guiding question later today.

Mrs Parsons xx

Mapping it out

20th April 2023Elouise Chadwick

We have created some beautiful work this week. We have been looking at a book titled ‘Martha Maps it Out’. We made links between the map of her local area and what we might find in ours. We took the children on a walk around Norton to see if we were right.

We enjoyed our walk and the children behaved beautifully!

Back in school we have mapped out our journey and have created some beautiful work. Here are some of our amazing maps…

Travelling on foot around Norton village…

20th April 2023Rebecca Kendrew-Jones

This week we have been hooking into our next expedition titled ‘Would you travel by wheels, wings or other things?’. Yesterday the children explored the book Martha Maps It Out by Leigh Hodgkinson. In the story Martha creates maps of lots of different places including her local village. The children worked collaboratively to notice and discuss all the features of Martha’s map. We then used this as a stimulus to predict what we might notice when travelling on foot around our local area. Were they the same or different to Martha? The only way to find out was to go on a walk…

We walked a circular route around Norton village passing The Royal Hotel, Baps and Wraps, the park, windmill and Junior School playing fields. The children spotted and discussed so many other features of their local area including sign posts, bus stops, passing vehicles, wildlife, pets and people of different occupations. Some children enjoyed pointing out their own homes too!

When we were back in school we looked again at the predictions we recorded about what we might see on our walk. The children’s ideas were fantastic suggestions and we ticked off most of our things on our lists! Well done Class 2 ☺️