Year 5 and 6 Inspire

One of our inspire activities was a mystery challenge. Reading and solving the crime with the clues and the information we had (??we still haven't realised it was a reading activity). We had lots of fun and took our time to find who our culprit was!

Book Club

As part of the National Year of Reading, a group of children are thoroughly enjoying taking over Mrs Mac's class on a Thursday lunchtime to explore new books and complete a few book related activities. It is a new club that we have never done before but we are loving it so far.

Well done to these year 5 and 6 children for amazing efforts with their handwriting. 

Competition Winners

We won another book prize courtesy of www.pageticker.com

These have been distributed to our shared reading areas.

National Poetry Day

Year 6 did a reading of a poem, called Transition, from the book 'The Final Year'.

Competition Winners!

We won a competition and received £100 worth of books.

Here are some children enjoying them in our cosy reading area.

Waverley Hub Summer Reading Challenge 

Some children were invited to the Waverley Community Hub for the announcement of the Summer Reading Challenge. They had lots of fun listening to stories and participating in book based crafts. Thank you to the community hub team! 

World Book Day 

We had an exciting day full of fancy dress, our favourite books, bookmarks, reading activities and other exciting tasks, including the masked reader. We also had our very first Drop Everything And Read session with the year 5 and year 6 supporting younger children and there was an amazing buzz around school- children sharing their favourite books ??

We created a display to show our narrative writing journey from reception to year 6 and had a sneak peek at year 7 expectations too.

Library Time

Key stage 2 children enjoy library time once per week at break time. Here are some of our children enjoying this time.

Book Swap

Our book swap area is now open to all. Lovely to see our children accessing it independently.

World Environment Day 

Key stage 1 enjoyed a lovely story about cleaning up the environment and discussed what we could do to help.

Royal Shakespeare Company Associate Schools Programme

We are excited to be part of the Associate Schools Programme ran by RSC. Members of staff have participated in residential and local training delivered by the RSC. We then delivered some of this as CPD to the whole teaching and SLT staff. They had lots of fun and can't wait to share their learning with their classes!

Royal Shakespeare Company

As a result of staff training, all classes have been introduced to William Shakespeare and his play 'The Tempest'. We look forward to exploring more Shakespeare plays next year.

World Poetry Day 

We held an assembly to celebrate World Poetry Day. We had some very brave children who read some poems aloud in the assembly for the rest of us to enjoy. 

During lunch, we enjoyed listening to Mrs Ord reading from our 'Crazy Creatures' book (which contains stories written by children in our school).

Masked Reader Kingsley Primary School!

Who's behind the mask?

 EYFS....This is where the fun begins!

A brilliant start in our 2 year old provision 'Little Gems'

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Take a look at us working hard in Nursery....

Children enjoying reading outside in the sunshine, with books from our outdoor library!

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Shakespeare in Nursery

Children made sounds of a storm and the ship being thrown about in the ocean after listening to the story of the shipwreck from the Tempest

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Children enjoying 'squiggle while you wiggle' time.

There's lots of fun to be had in Reception. 

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Shakespeare in Reception

Children's responses to the shipwreck from 'The Tempest'.

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Library Time!

The Reception children enjoyed a visit to our library.

We listened to the story of The Tempest by William Shakespeare and recreated the storm and the shipwreck. Some of us drew pictures of our ship too. 

We are so proud of our amazing work in Key Stage 1.

Look at the lovely work we do in the Key Stage 1 Bases.

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Engagement base

Educational base

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Take a look at our Literacy work in Year 1!

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Look at my amazing handwriting ?? 

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Shakespeare in Year 1

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Take a look at some of the work we have produced in Year 2.

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Year 2 attended a playmaker festival at English Martyrs and they put on this fantastic performance of the shipwreck scene of The Tempest.

Year 2 using RSC drama strategies in Literacy lessons.

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We enjoyed drama! We explored a desert island and then found there was something wrong with our boats so we were stuck! Dun....dun...duuuun....

We are very proud of our work in Key stage 2!

Key Stage 2 Base

What do the key stage 2 base think about literacy?

I liked reading Alan's big scary teeth because I enjoyed pretending to be Alan in drama- Kai L

I like making up stories and drawing pictures to go with them. I want to be an illustrator because I love drawing- Sadiya

In Literacy, you get to learn about new things, especially when you read. I like writing my own versions of stories I read -Jake

We work extremely hard in the Key Stage 2 base. Look at our fabulous work....

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We have been very busy and had lots of fun in Year 3...

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What do Year 3 think about Literacy?

I like literacy because I enjoyed writing non- fiction texts. I like finding out about new things. I enjoy reading but I find it a bit tricky- I know that practising will help me get better- Ava P

I like to write stories because I find it interesting. It keeps my mind busy and I get to use my imagination, which is a lot of fun. Everything is fun! Seb M

Year 3 drama activities 

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We experienced a 'word carpet' and were transported into the world of 'The Iron Man'. We guided our partners sensibly around the room and could hear sounds and words. It really helped our writing!

Enjoying story time...

Look at our work so far this year.

Take a look at what we do in Year 4

What do year 4 think about Literacy?

My favourite part of Literacy is writing and I love reading too. It's a really important subject to help you get a good job- Emilie H

Literacy is awesome because everything we do is fun! My favourite thing is writing poems and stories- Runa T

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Year 4 Shakespeare inspired writing

Year 4 drama

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We have learned so many skills in Year 5...

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What do year 5 think about Literacy?

I really like SPaG, particularly putting new learning into action- like before.... we learned about prepositions of time and place and then used them in our own sentences- Evie T

I like imagining and creating new things in my writing. I can create new worlds, anything is possible!

 I know from my success criteria and what my teacher says that I am doing a good job- Oliver D

I love that I can be creative and write funny pieces. I love to write at home too! Freya

I love reading independently and I like sharing stories at home. I love snuggling in to my mam and taking turns reading 'Big Bear, Little Bear' Niamh

Using RSC strategies during literacy lessons

Look at our work so far.

Take a look at what we have been up to in Year 6!

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Some examples of our writing

Group Literacy Tasks

RSC Strategies

We use strategies from the Royal Shakespeare Company to impact our writing. We try to use them in all writing units, not just Shakespeare!

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What do Year 6 think about Literacy?

I would love to be a published author one day. Since I started my writing journey in Nursery, I have gained lots of new skills. I think writing is lots of fun and it helps in lots of ways- Paige

I love reading! At the moment I am reading a book by David Attenborough Dynasties and it's very interesting. I do love non-fiction because I learn about the world- Ava De

I like reading and writing. I know I need to make sure I haven't made any mistakes. At home I make success criteria like we have at school to help me when I am writing for fun- Jayden

I like reading to find out new information. Reading can take me to new places in my mind- Harley N

Using our RSC drama strategies.