To deepen our understanding of our ‘Talk for Writing’ text, ‘How to Catch a Star’, the children have been taking to the hot seat. We asked questions of the person in the hot seat to find out which character they were from the story. Next, some of us drew upon our acting skills to perform verbs from the text: jumping; waiting; climbing and fishing. Then we looked at some of the illustrations and considered where the scene occurred in the story. Was it the opening, the middle or the end? Why not try this game with your favourite stories at home?

Well done, Hugo!

Well done to Hugo for winning the Reading competition for Reception. Well done also to additional entrants – Sophie and Ariella – whose brilliant entries did not come via the classroom and, so were not featured on last week’s blog.