Reading and Writing
Reading and writing are key skills that underpin all areas of our curriculum. Please read the attached for more details:
At Heathbrook, we use Letters and Sounds to help us to teach phonics in conjunction with Thrass and Jolly Phonics.
Reading and writing is underpinned by a whole school commitment to oracy. We have worked closely with the Communication Trust to further enhance staff skills and communication-friendly learning environments. To further support children with speech and language difficulties we buy in a Speech and Language Therapist.
Recent Reading and Writing News
Character descriptions
Today in Year 5, we have been learning the 3 important elements in a character description. We have been building up vocabulary to describe the mole from our whole school text, ‘The boy, the [...]
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
Welcome to the Starlings class! Year 5 have settled into learning so well. This week we have been reading our whole school text ‘The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse.’ Today we have [...]
Year 6 Home Learning
Well done on your home learning thus far Year 6! Remember to keep emailing us the wonderful learning journey you are on at home so we can share and celebrate your achievements. Thank you to [...]
World Book Day Fun – Apeeling Potatoes!!
To celebrate World Book Day, we decided to get creative and make our favourite book characters out of potatoes. See if you can guess the different well-known protagonists and antagonists below!!
World Book Day fun!
Yesterday in Year two we had an amazing World Book Day, we celebrated it by thinking of our favourite book characters and making them using craft materials and potatoes. Some of us even dressed up [...]
Potato Characters!
For World Book Day this year we decided to create our favourite book characters out of potatoes. We thought carefully about who our favourite character is and why. We then had to carefully plan the [...]