English

4th October 2022M Hanratty

At Marsden Primary School, English is at the heart of our curriculum; it is the foundation on which every subject is built. We aim to deliver a quality English curriculum which develops a children’s love of speaking and listening, reading, and writing that will last them a lifetime. By giving pupils the key literacy skills, it enables them to access material in all curriculum areas, and provides a foundation for their learning throughout their school career.

To find out more about our English curriculum, please click on the documents below:

Monster Art Y2

19th September 2024S Stothard

In Year Two we have been looking at the text Beegu. To finish our unit we are going to be writing our own alien story and have created some fantastic aliens. We designed them and have used watercolors to bring our ideas to life. They look fantastic!

Suspicious Spaceship

4th September 2024S Stothard

This morning Year 2 heard a loud metal bang and Mr Payne alerted us to a strange object on the yard. Year 2 bravely went to investigate and found it was a crashed spaceship. We wrote letters to alert the rest of the school and are carrying out more investigations

 

 

 

Looking Walk -Nursery

11th May 2024M Hanratty

In one of our books we spotted a porthole the characters were looking through. The children showed a strong interest in coming up with own ideas of what they might see if they looked through one so we decided to make our own. We decorated them before taking them around school to see what we could see.

It was lovely to hear the children extending their descriptive language.

“I can see a tall tree.”

“I can see a big field next to the farm.”

“I can see a noisy seagull.”

“I can see a rainbow tree behind Mrs Hanratty.”

 

 

Rhyme of the Week- Nursery

26th March 2024M Hanratty

Nursery love joining in our daily rhyme time sessions. We focus on a different nursery rhyme each week. Last week, we learned how to sing “When Goldilocks went to the House of the Bears” which you listen to below.
This week we are learning “Round and Round the Garden like a Teddy Bear” but we are having fun changing the words. We loved Jasmine’s idea of “Round and Round the Zoo, like and elephant”!

Nursery AM and 30 Hours

Nursery PM and 30 Hours

Y5 World Book Day

15th March 2024S Hume

Year 5 had a great day ‘reading their way’ throughout World Book Day. We took part in a book token designing competition as well as a book quiz. We made character wooden spoons, read by ourselves and with Year 1 children, and we got our special WBD books to take home.

A special thank you must go out to the Year 5 children who set up and ran the WBD book stall exceptionally well.

 

Y5 Virtual Author Visit

13th September 2023S Hume

Year 5 had a really interesting morning listening to the author S.F. Said talk about his books Varjak Paw, Phoenix and Tyger. He told us why he became an author, where he got his ideas from and we were shocked at how long it has taken him to write his books!
We can’t wait to start reading his books now!

📚 World Book Day Celebrations📚

9th March 2023M Hanratty

On Thursday, we celebrated our love of reading by sharing books together with our friends. The children thoroughly enjoyed reading together and getting lost in the imaginative worlds.

We also shared the text “The Dot” across the whole school and completed a wide range of activities linked to dots and believing in ourselves. Each year group shared their work in Assembly.

Nursery/Year 3 Shared Reading

Reception/Year 6 Shared Reading

Year 2/Year 5 Shared Reading

Year 1/Year 4 Shared Reading