Mammoth Maths

World Book Day was celebrated by the children at Audlem St James with a special story telling event with Alia Alzougbi from Settle Stories who told tales from the Arabian Nights. The children shared special reading activities each day in preparation for World Book Day. The children in Pearl Class took part in the online Author and Illustrator Academy, learning how to make a Picture Book Theatre...

'...into the night sky. And the dragons followed.' The children thought about what George and the dragons saw as they flew above the sleeping town.The children carried out a 'Defining the space' activity where they created the outline of the dragon on the floor or set up chairs in rows (to replicate inside the dragon machine). The children then imagined flying into the sky in the...

The children in Pearl Class have really enjoyed reading The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward and The Dragon Sitter by Josh Lacey. They created leaflets about how to care for dragons. They wrote commands and they used conjunctions to combine clauses in a...