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
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 [...]
RUTHLESS ROMANS STRIKE AGAIN!
In Year 3 we have been learning about the Romans. We have used this information to write our very own newspapers about the Roman Invasion of Britain in 43AD. We have discussed what makes a [...]
Visual Literacy – SOAR: An Animated Short
Happy Monday! Today in literacy, we watched the animated short 'SOAR' - the basis of our Literacy work over the coming weeks. We decided, as a class, to post the animation on the [...]
Imagine a Story
On Monday, Year 5 headed to the Southbank for a celebration of the published novel 'London/Londoff.' As a class, Year 5 collaborated to write a chapter of the book. They are all now published [...]