Poetry Off By Heart Winners 2023
Published 18/10/23
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Read MorePoetry Off By Heart for National Poetry Month
Published 06/10/23We are very excited to announce the return of our annual Poetry Off By Heart competition to celebrate National Poetry month during October.
This year, our poetry theme is 'All Things School' and hopefully you have now accessed the list of chosen poems emailed to you this week. You can also find our poetry list available to download below.
We would like every child to choose a poem from this list to practise performing and learning off by heart, for Monday 16th October, when the children will have the opportunity to perform their chosen poem to their class. We shall then choose finalists to perform their poem again to the rest of the school.
Performance poetry can be a really fun and exciting way for children to engage with poetry. This year's poems have been chosen with this in mind and are ordered by challenge to help you support your child to choose the best poem for them to learn.
They don't have to learn all of the poem; it could just be a verse or whatever they feel able to do.
Children have been exploring how to perform different poetry in class and should therefore be ready to have a go!
We look forward to seeing the children's off by heart performances!
Read MoreHappy Birthday Roald Dahl!
Published 26/09/23Last week we celebrated Roald Dahl’s birthday with a Roald Dahl themed assembly and activities happening in our classes, together with Roald Dahl stories and books in our reading areas. We found Roald Dahl on our school timeline to find out that he was born in 1916.
Did you know, the first children’s book Roald Dahl wrote was James and the Giant Peach?
Here we share some of our lovely learning with you.
Read MoreIncredible You!
Published 26/09/23During our first week back to school, the whole school explored the book ’Incredible You’ by Rhys Brisenden. This wonderful book delves into all the amazing things that we can do and how this makes each and every one of us incredible!
Upon a cloud, every child then recorded what makes them incredible, from riding a bike without stabilisers to being a kind friend and everything inbetween!
We used peg dolls to make our incredible selves and proudly displayed these around our world to remind ourselves throughout this year that we are all INCREDIBLE!
Read MoreGoodbye Mrs Brown
Published 21/07/23With very heavy hearts, we say goodbye to Mrs Brown who has been an absolute ray of sunshine in Amazon Class on Fridays. The children have loved her exciting science lessons and we have all loved having her as part of the team.
We know that she will pop back to say hello and we shall welcome her with open arms as always.
Thank you Mrs Brown for your enthusiasm and dedication this year.
Read MoreSuperhero librarians!
Published 21/07/23Well what a wonderful team of librarians we have had this year!
They have been absolute reading superheroes this year and I cannot thank you enough for all that you have done to inspire the children of SSQ to enjoy reading and keep the library a wonderful place to be.
The librarians are now proud wearers of their new reading pin badges.
