English: Gallery
Date: 13th Oct 2026 @ 10:42am
We had lots of activities set up in the Blue Room this week to help us practise our gross motor and fine motor skills.
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 11:54am
We read to the end of our text 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers. We freeze framed the most important sections of the story. Then, we ordered the story and retold it to our partner.
Date: 8th Oct 2026 @ 11:49am
This week in the Blue Room, Year 1 have been working extremely hard! We have been using play dough to improve our fine motor skills by making things that the animals on our play dough mats were missing. We have been practising our long legged giraffe letters using rainbow writing on huge pieces of paper! We have been continuing to practise our number bonds to five and saying one less than a number to 10. We loved creating alien names for the new aliens in the room and using our phonics to sound it out - some of the names really made us laugh!
Date: 5th Oct 2026 @ 2:50pm
Some of the children from St Basil's enjoyed a visit from the Book Bus today! They took back books we had borrowed in the past and exchanged them for new books they wanted to read! Thank you to ELS Cheshire for visiting us!
Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 12:39pm
In English, we have been freeze framing in role as a Jewish girl from our text. We imagined we were being lined up ready to board the train to the concentration camp and thought about what she might be thinking and feeling.
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 12:59pm
Today we used an illustrated map to help us to plan out Annie's journey along the water towards Niagara Falls. We had to think about how we could use fronted adverbials, rhetorical questions and exclamations to explain her feelings.
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 11:54am
In English, we worked in pairs to orally rehearse and then write sentences in passive voice about the Jewish people in our English text. They were taken from their homes and lined up at the train station.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:53pm
We enjoy reading in our 'reading retreat' area.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:29pm
We used our fine motor skills to create shapes using the Geo boards. We also had to count the number of sides the shape had.
Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 1:44pm
We have met Timothy Limpet in our Writing text 'Troll Swap'. Today we designed our own troll and described them using adjectives and noun phrases.
Date: 25th Sep 2026 @ 11:42am
We worked in fours to debate whether Lydia from our text in English should return home.
Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 3:45pm
This week we started our new Guided Read text 'The Troll' by Julia Donaldson.
We enjoyed reading out loud in expressive voices and predicting about the characters.
Date: 15th Sep 2026 @ 4:28pm
The children have worked hard today in the Blue Room. They have been focused on fine motor skills, letter formation, counting and making repeated patterns.
Y6 Role Play of a Cafe Scene From our Text in English
Date: 11th Sep 2026 @ 12:28pm
We role played a scene from our text in English, 'Star of fear, Star of hope'. We acted out being in a cafe in France in the 1940s. We thought about character feelings and what they might say.
Date: 6th Mar 2026 @ 9:09am
Our World Book Day celebrations and reading hour with parents
Date: 17th Nov 2025 @ 3:36pm
We learnt about road safety in today's assembly and the importance of keeping safe on and around roads.
Jubilee Year launch - Pilgrims of Hope - January 24th 2025
Date: 26th Jan 2025 @ 11:42am
Our school community came together for an amazing launch for the very special Jubilee Year.
A Jubilee is celebrated within the Catholic church every 25 years. This year the theme will be 'Pilgrims of Hope'.
We are called together to experience joy and strength as we embarkon a journey to be 'agents of change,' working together for justice, love and peace, locally and globally.
After learning about the importance and theme of the Jubilee, the children across school have Celebrated the Word and written their own pledges.
We gathered together to reflect and share pledges before displaying them all around the hall.
We are excited for more events to come during the Jubilee Year and are filled with hope for the difference we can make in fulfilling our pledges!
Y5 - Visit to A Christmas Carol performance at Norton Priory
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 1:02pm
Year 5 had a wonderful morning watching a performance of 'A Christmas Carol' at Norton Priory. The children interacted with the performers excellently and had such a fun time.
Whole School - Christmas Pantomime - The Emperor's New Clothes
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 9:28am
We all had an amazing morning laughing and joining in with our annual pantomine from Altru Drama
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 8:07am
Every week, the children in Pre School get to take home one of our school ‘Reading for Pleasure’ books. The children love swapping their books on a Wednesday and talk about why they enjoyed reading their chosen book.
Florence – My book was about bunnies; it had flaps to open!
Junior – My book was about feelings, happy and sad. I want to take the monsters book next.
Aoife – This one was about we’re going on a bear hunt shapes.
Jennifer – Mine was about crazy cows!
Caben – I had the gingerbread man but next I would like to take the town book
Sophia – I want to take the one Florence had about bunnies.
Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 7:55am
On a Wednesday we bring a book to share during Book Lunch, we share the book with our partners and discuss the authors, characters or themes.
This year, Year 6 are beginning to interview pupils in each class about their favourite book, which we will play out on the hall screen for everyone to share.
Y6 - End of Year Performance - Shakespeare Rocks!
Date: 23rd Jul 2024 @ 2:11pm
Our Year 6 End of Year Performance this year was Shakespeare Rocks!
EYFS - Stay and Play Communication and Language
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:17pm
Communication and Language is at the heart of our EYFS Curriculum
Children in Reception (F2) and working to:
- Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important
- Learn new vocabulary
- Ask questions to find out more
- Engage in story times
- Retell stories
- Learn rhymes, poems and songs
- Engage in non-fiction books
- Share non-fiction books
To further support our children with this, we invited parents and carers to stay for a Stay and Play INSPIRE session. The children completed a range of Communication and Language activities with their parents.
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 6:05pm
Have you ever had a guest eat more than their fair share?
EYFS had been learning all about The Tiger Who Came to Tea this week. They have loved the story and how the tiger emptied the fridge and cupboards! The children have tried some food from the story too.
"We drew pictures of the food" - Hallie
"He is SO greedy!" - Harper
"He has a rumbly tummy" - Cooper
"Silly tiger!" - Jonas
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 5:49pm
He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, And terrible teeth in his terrible jaws... Who could it be? The Gruffalo!
We have loved our shared reading text, The Gruffalo. We have spent time learning the story and have even used drama to re create the scenes. We had a special delivery from the library service, The Gruffalo puppets! The children have loved using the puppets and can remember the story. The children have also learnt The Gruffalo song and performed it together.
"He has knobbly knees, and turned-out toes" - Meredith
"The mouse is the scariest creature in the wood" - Dexter
"The mouse likes Gruffalo crumble" - Kasper
