Topaz and Opal class enjoyed a very informative trip to Shrewsbury Prison as part of the topic Crime and Punishment.

Key Stage 2 children had a fantastic start back to the new term with a visit from Jean Atkin, a Shrewsbury poet. Jean worked alongside each class and inspired the children to create a collaborative class poem and their own individual poems.

The day ended with a whole school assembly where the children shared their work.

Please look out on the Newsletter for the class poems. A big thank you to Sound PTA who funded the event.

This half term, Topaz class have focussed on the author Dick King Smith. Starting with a mini study about the author, the children were set a challenge to read a variety of his books over the half term and recommend their favourites to their friends.

The class have thoroughly enjoyed reading Dick King Smiths Books and 2 super star readers , Archie and Harry, have each read 5 of his books. Both found the books easy to read with fun story lines and would definitely recommend to their friends.

All the readers received a little prize and now everyone is asking .. who will our author focus be next term ?

The School Council had excellent ideas about how to celebrate WORLD BOOK DAY this year.

Firstly, they decided to run a competition to design a Book Mark. All the children in the school, designed their own book marks, and the School Council judged them the following week. Here are the winning designs:

Secondly, the children decided to set a Decorate a Stone competition, depicting a favourite character, author or book title. Thank you to everyone who entered. All the stones are now displayed by the entrance to the school, creating a beautiful display for visitors to look at as they arrive.