School Blog: Literacy

This week in Year 3 we have reintroduced the children to traditional tales.  A traditional tale is a story that has been told and re-told for many years, and consequently,…

At Kingsleigh, we are always encouraging the children to read, and we expect them to be reading at least five times a week. As a…

Year 5 have been embracing the dark side and learning a new villainous text map. We needed to think about how we could persuade a…

Year 3 have been learning all about the RNLI this term, so we thought it would be fun to make some boats out of different…

Year 6 have been finding out about the Palm Oil industry.  We have investigated the positive and negative impact this industry has on the countries…

At Kingsleigh, we think reading is an important part of every day but on World  Book Day we get really excited about celebrating reading and…

Reading is such an important part of  your child’s development and school experience . Whenever you can, please encourage your child to read, whether it be a sign…

This week, Year One have been learning all about road safety and why it is important to stay safe on the roads. First, they had…

This week, the children have been learning all about instruction writing.  They began the unit of work learning a text map based around a ‘Wonka…

This half term, Year 1 have been reading stories of Winnie the Witch. Wilbur the cat had left a letter in the classroom, along…

Year 2 have been busy this week writing instructions to make a fruit salad! On  Tuesday, we learnt all about imperative…

This week year one have been learning all about how to be bossy in our writing. We learnt about command words which tell you to…