Crook Primary School
Crook Primary School
We thoroughly enjoyed listening to stories by Rogan Mills and sharing our own stories with our friends on World Book Day.
What a wonderful celebration of reading we had in school on World Book Day! The children and staff went to great effort capture the world of reading through their costumes. We had an exciting day of storytelling and book activities which included a few tales from Rogan Mills.
We have had a wonderful day celebrating our favourite story book characters and I have been blown away with the array of wonderful costumes!
To celebrate our love for reading we have taken part in a quiz, shared stories in VERY unusual places and had a great workshop by storyteller; Rogan Mills!
This week in Bagel Book Club, the year children enjoyed reading with their buddies. The children showed great interest and enjoyment in what their partner was reading.
This term in Year 4 we are basing our writing on the fantastic book 'The Land of Roar', written by Jenny McLachlan.
The Land of Roar is a tale that follows the journey of Arthur and Rose as they enter a land they once helped to create through a fold away bed in their attic. The world of Roar is brought to life by characters such as unicorns, mermaids, a monstrous scarecrow and comedic ninja wizard.
It is lovely to see the children so invested in the story, and some have even received books from this author for Christmas!
Jenny McLachlan has her own website which you can check out here:
Year 3 have kick started the term with an adventure story - The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. The children have dove into learning about the traits and characteristics of the characters as well as inferring from the text what they may be feeling and thinking. We have put all of those skills into practice when writing a diary extract from the characters perspective.
Year 2 have kick started the term with a traditional tale that they are already quite familiar with - Jack and the Beanstalk. As we already knew the story, it gave us the chance to explore the characters thoughts and feelings a little further and allowed us to focus on our inference skills. It also allowed us the chance to write at length to re-tell the story. Fantastic effort!
In 2AD, our class novel is 'The Enchanted Wood' by Enid Blyton. We are thoroughly enjoying the book and love getting to know all of the quirky characters. Saucepan Man is most definitely our favourite so far!
We are so pleased to announce that Harriet Mills, of class 6O, is a finalist in BBC's 500 Words competition. She will soon be going to Buckingham Palace, London, to take part in a special event which will be featured on The One Show on 7th March 2024.
Well done Harriet - you have made us all so proud!
Here is what BBC have to say about the 500 Words competition:
We all know competition means one thing… prizes, and there are some unbelievable prizes up for grabs.
Our grand final will take place in February 2024 at Buckingham Palace! The top 50 finalists will be invited, along with a parent or carer. The event will be featured in a special 500 Word programme with The One Show, on World Book Day on 7 March 2024.
The two gold winners will receive the height of Sir Lenny Henry in books, as well as 500 books for their school. The two silver winners will receive the height of Her Majesty the Queen in books and the two bronze winners will receive the average height of a 7 or 11 year old in books.
On top of this, BBC 500 Words have teamed up with six of the biggest and best children's illustrators to each design one of the six winners' stories. Axel Scheffler will design the gold winner of the 5-7 category, whilst Fiona Lumbers & Joelle Avelino will design the silver and bronze designs.
Jamie Smart will design the gold 8-11 winner, whilst Sue Cheung & Steven Lenton are on board to design the silver & bronze winners respectively.
Not only will they have their story bought to life, the six illustrated stories will be framed and each child will get a 500 Words winners' book to take home.
Find out how your child can enter next year here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/500-words
I send this letter, dear Sir Lenny,
to ask you kindly if there's any
chance you might today at Breakfast
tell your viewers of a contest,
which inspires imagination,
creativity, celebration.
The call, you will, I'm sure, have heard:
“Send us your Five Hundred Words!”
If you're aged from five to seven,
or from eight up to eleven.
write your story, send it in:
you could be the one to win!
Any subject, any style:
make us marvel, make us smile,
make us think - and think again.
You have until November 10.
The hunt is on. We seek a star.
The best of luck.
- Camilla R
Year One are thrilled with their new focus author for the spring term. It is the marvellous children's author and poet, Michael Rosen! We were already familiar with Michael Rosen as we performed (and loved) 'Little Rabbit Foo Foo' last term.
We can't wait to read more of his books and poems throughout the term. Here are the books we plan on reading first...
In KS1, the children have been counting down the days to Christmas with a Book Advent. Each day, a new festive themed book arrives by 'Special Delivery' (or perhaps those sneaky elves have something to do with it!) for the children to enjoy at the end of the school day. Here are a selection that have been enjoyed so far!