Hodge Hill – Birmingham
What a strange start to the Summer Term. We arrived at school this morning to find that there were branches and sawdust scattered down the path leading to school! Where did they come from? Throughout school there was sawdust and
We have had a wonderful day today! The children all had special Solar glasses to view the amazing eclipse. We also had in excess of 166 parents who joined the children for activities which included solar biscuits, making junk model
We have had a great world book day here at Colebourne. Some amazing costumes and even more amazing writing! [slickr-flickr tag”wbd2015″]
Over the past week, pupils at Colebourne have been fortunate enough to have visits from two famous authors; Steve Voake and Steve Smallman. Both authors read some of their stories to the whole school and explained how they wrote their
Year 3 are currently researching 4 different attractions in Birmingham, in order to persuade our new explorer friend Julia Flump to visit! They were set the challenge of making their attraction sound better than all the others.
Some of our children were very lucky to work with the poet Dawud Wharnsby via Skype during poetry week. They wrote a poem entitled ‘Kindness is the Key to Life’ which he then kindly put to music to create this wonderful
A few weeks ago, Year 6 took part in an exciting day helping the police solve a murder mystery. They took fingerprints, asked detective questions, hunted for the weapon and helped the police search for clues. The children then had
During literacy today, we started our new topic for the week. This is nonsense poetry. The children wrote down everything they knew about poetry and lots of children thought back to our last poetry topic, where we watched poets performing their
In Literacy, Year 5 have been writing instructions. They wrote some fantastic instructions for a new game called ‘Captains Coming’ that Reception could play linked to their theme of Pirates. Both Year 5 and Reception had a brilliant time reading the
Year 2 have been learning about poetry. This week they have looked at the poem, ‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger McGough. They used his poem as a starting point and then wrote their own poems in the same style. The