World Book Day 2022
We have had a fabulous day celebrating World Book Day, escpecially how books can reflect our own lives but also show us exciting different cultures. Many of the wonderful new books recently delivered to classrooms, The Book Jungle in Infants and The Magical World of Books in KS2 celebrate the diversity of the world. We […]
Celebrating World Book Day With Y5
The Y5 classrooms were a mass of excited and well-dressed characters this morning, as the children showed off their amazing WBD costumes! There were a wide range of outfits from a great range of stimulating and exciting books! The children began the day with a whole-school assembly from Mrs Glossop, before sharing their costumes and […]
World Book Day 2022
What a wonderful day the Year 1s have had. Well done everybody for such an amazing effort! We were so lucky to read with the Y5s and produced some lovely writing based on the book ‘We’re going on a lion hunt’ by David Axtell.
DPS in the News
The recent opening of The Book Jungle and The Magical World of Books has been featured in the Star newspaper! While I was reading, I spotted that the brillinant Y4 Basketball team winners were there in the paper too!
The Book Jungle and The Magical World of Books are OPEN!
Dore Primary has always had a passion for reading for pleasure; our children enjoy books at school and at home, many being avid readers from an early age. The two newly refurbished rooms are the latest way for children to develop their love of reading and books further. A huge collaborative effort has resulted in […]
Y4 Creative Writing – Portal Stories
Over several weeks, our creative Y4s produced their own portal stories. We looked at some great examples for inspiration, including The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Journey, and The Phantom Tollbooth, discovering that many of these stories start with a child living a boring life. We wrote this part of our stories, then found […]
Y4 The SpiDOREwick Chronicles
To get our lovely new classes settled into Y4, we used the ‘Spiderwick Chronicles’ as the inspiration for our first couple weeks of learning. We used the story for book study, then investigated the mysterious creatures you can find when you gain ‘the sight’ (the ability to see into the invisible world of faeries). To […]