Blog Author: Lyndsey Faulkner

This is the approach that we use right across school to support our comprehension skills. Over the coming weeks we will introduce each viper through our focused comprehension sessions.

Don't forget we will change your child's reading book tomorrow ( Tuesday) if they are ready for us to do so. Please jot down your child's reading progress in their reading record/ planner ( don't forget to use our reading VIPER question stems and book marks to support your child's reading). To…

Throughout school we use a "Reading Viper" approach to improve key reading skills. Each letter in VIPERS represent a different strand, V=vocabulary, I=inference, P=prediction, E=explain, R=retrieve and the S= sequence (within KS1). Today was our first introduction to the vocabulary viper that…

Please help your child to learn these classic lines from a classic children's text set in a familiar setting.

Please remember that your child is required to come to school in their PE kit on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Our PE kits comprise of navy shorts, your child's house colour t shirt ( red, yellow, green, blue) with their school jumper over the top with a pear of comfortable trainers. As the weather…

This is our focus text for the week and links beautifully to our science learning too. It's repetitive lines and simple structure will really get the children's creative juices flowing. It's written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg who are responsible for penning many classic children's books. Try to…

Sorry I didn't pop your child's wordboxes in their reading book for this weekend but I will get them to you ASAP.

A massive well done for rising to the Year 1 challenge

Using creative approaches to explore our feelings

The children have all been amazing this week and as the week has gone on the children have become more and more tired. It's been great to have so many happy, smiling faces in the classroom but all this concentration zaps their energy levels and can make them a bit weepy. I think we all need a big…