30th October 2020
We have been extremely pleased with the early phonics, reading, writing and maths development in reception class this first half-term.
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12th October 2019Children enjoying lots of mark-making and early writing opportunities in Stonehenge class. -
18th June 2019This week, our Year 6 Writers group visited Woodhey High School as a reward for their excellent attitude and standards in writing all year long. Woodhey kindly put on a morning of English lessons, which our pupils were invited to participate in. Their pupils made our children feel welcome and included us in the discussions and activities, which included story...
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All Pupils, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, English, Enjoy and Achieve, Enrichment, Everest, Golden Gate, Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Outstanding Learners, Sphinx, Stonehenge, Taj Mahal30th March 2019Well done to all the children who entered this year's Holcombe Brook Creative Writing Competition. We had so many fantastic entries and are so proud to have a school full of children who love to write! You can read all of our winning stories now - just scroll down to find the class you want! Stonehenge: James Big Ben: Manan Eiffel Tower: Rosie Everest: Isla Sphinx: Olivia Taj...
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All Pupils, Big Ben, Effective Learner, Eiffel Tower, English, Enjoy and Achieve, Enrichment, Everest, Golden Gate, Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Outstanding Learners, Sphinx, Stonehenge, Taj Mahal20th March 2019This year, Holcombe Brook took on the Big Book Off Challenge as part of World Book Day! Every class completed 5 book-related challenges (Create, Imagine, Explore, Discover & Experience) to inspire the children and get them excited about reading. We also had a Share-a-Story morning, where older children from KS2 visited the younger classrooms and read their favourite books to them. ...
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9th December 2018It has been wonderful to see the reception class so enthused to mark-make and write both in and out the classroom!
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18th December 2017Staff and pupils alike were shocked last week when they discovered that a wave of Pokémon had taken over our school! The creatures were seen in a variety of locations around school, with Taj Mahal class particularly affected. Luckily, the Year 4 children are now expert newspaper report writers and were able to detail exactly what happened and how...
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15th May 2017English lessons in Niagara Falls class have focused on the wonderful picture book 'The Lost Happy Endings' by Carol-Ann Duffy. Children have made predictions, developed inference skills using text and pictures, visualised the settings and looked closely at characters. After reading and acting out play scripts, learning about the features of the writing genre, creating iPad animations with shorts scripts...
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15th February 2016We've had some fantastic entries for Pobble's 'Mighty Write' competition! The theme was 'If I Ruled the World...' and all children in Niagara Falls wrote a story independently for the competition. We were allowed to enter five stories and the selected entries can be viewed online. Please leave a comment for our published authors. Emily AbbieHarryJasminLizzy