English Events
Jubilee Comic Strip Competition
To celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, we launched a competition for the children to create a comic strip based on the Queen's life.
The School Librarians announced the three winners. They got to choose a brand new book to take home from our book vending machine. Congratulations to our fabulous winners.
World Book Day: Castletown Story
As part of World Book Day activities on the 3rd of March, each year group contributed to writing a whole school story. The story was based upon an illustration which was used as a stimulus for writing the story. At the end of the day, we held a special assembly in the school hall where Mr Duncan read the full story to the whole school.
World Book Day: Bedtime Stories
To celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March, we recorded a bedtime story for each day of the week. In case you missed them, here they are below for you to enjoy.
Monday: 'The Little White Owl' read by Mr Perrett from Year.2
Tuesday: 'Room on the Broom' read by Miss Richardson from EYFS
Wednesday: 'Giraffes Can't Dance' read by three of our fabulous Year.6 librarians
Thursday: 'Shhh!' read by Miss Watt and Mrs Qualie from Year.1
Friday: 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' read by Mr Beck from Year.5
Book Swap
As part of our World Book Day events, children brought into school good quality, unwanted books from home in order to swap at school. On 1st March, all of the books were displayed in the Crafty Cabin and during the day each child was able to go along and select a book to take home. It was fantastic to see all of out children so excited about books and eager to start reading their new book.
Click on the gallery below to view the photographs from the Book Swap event.
Valentine's Day Writing Competition
Here are our three winners! |
Click on the galley below to view examples of some of the entries received from across the whole school, even from Reception!
Year 3 & Year 6 Writing Share
Virtual Author Visits
Year 3 had a fantastic and very informative virtual visit from the author Maddie Moate, who told us all about her book ‘STUFF’. She told us about her adventures around the world and how this inspired her book. Her book is all about recycling and we couldn’t believe that she saw paper being made from elephant poo!
Year 4's virtual visit was with Jeff Kinney, the best selling author of the popular 'Diary of a wimpy kid' series. He showed us how he plans his stories, sharing extracts from his own diaries, and led us in a draw-a-long of Greg. The children also got to hear some of his brand new book ' Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot ' which we have now put into our school library for the children to enjoy!Christmas Writing Competition
Poetry Performance- Autumn Term 2021
All year groups explore a wide range of poetry throughout the year, learning some of them by heart. Each term we hold a Poetry Performance assembly where each year group shares their recital with the rest of the school, we hope you enjoy listening to some of them below....
Years 1 and 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6