Hello and welcome to Beatrix Potter Class, my name is Miss McRedmond!
Welcome to Beatrix Potter Class! Beatrix Potter was a famous author, illustrator and conservationist, best known for creating The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was inspired by her love of nature and animals. She was creative, curious, determined and caring, and these are the qualities we will strive to show every day in our classroom. Inspired by Beatrix Potter’s love of the natural world, we can’t wait to explore the incredible Rainforest in Geography. As well as this, we cannot wait to travel back in time through our lessons to discover what life was like in Tudor times and Ancient Greece. We will enjoy some exciting experiences along the way to help us bring these fascinating times in history to life. We are looking forward to a fantastic year filled with exciting learning, new discoveries and lots of fun together!
Welcome to Jane Goodhall class. My name is Miss Gorman.
Beginning in 1960 in what is now Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, Goodall made revolutionary discoveries about chimpanzees. Most notably, she observed them making and using tools—a trait previously thought unique to humans. She also documented their complex social structures, distinct personalities, and eating habits. By immersing herself in their habitat and naming the animals rather than numbering them, she challenged traditional scientific methods and sparked a major shift in how humans view animal cognition and emotions.
Times Table Rockstars
Handwriting Lessons
Every child, who attends one of our Vine schools, will receive a Vine Passport. This Vine Passport will
give every child the opportunity to challenge themselves, to broaden their horizons and to increase
their life experiences. There is a total of 40 challenges as you travel around your Vine Schools
Passport. There is no rush to complete it all at once; indulge yourself in the challenges and enjoy!
In the Vine Trust, we want to promote a love of reading in all of our pupils no matter what their age, gender or reading ability. Exposing children to a wide variety of good quality stories and texts helps to improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills whilst also introducing them to a whole host of experiences, both imaginary and real, that they might otherwise never experience.
At the Vine, we feel that parents and carers play a vital role in supporting pupils with their reading. Research into reading supports this belief and one finding in 2006 states that:
Parents and the home environment are essential to the early teaching of reading and fostering a love of reading; children are more likely to continue to be readers in homes where books and reading are valued (Clark and Rumbold, 2006).
We understand that it can be difficult to motivate children to read, especially now that technology is so appealing and accessible. It can also be challenging to get children to read different types of books. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, Harry Potter and books written by David Walliams are extremely popular and are great pieces of literature. However, it is important that children read a range of stories and books to support them in developing their own imagination and writing skills.
In light of this, we have produced a selection of lists to aid you at home in guiding and encouraging children to read a range of books. Each list contains good-quality, age relevant books that have stood the test of time and proven to be very popular with pupils that staff have taught over the years.
How to use the lists:
These lists are extensive but not exhaustive. There are so many wonderful options and choices for children to read today; we just need to make sure that we are encouraging them to do so.
