Story performed by Ms. Melody

In the last term, the children have thrown themselves into the classical story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” by Michael Rosen.

Pupils have been exposed to many rhythmic words and repetitive language, this helps children to learn the story and quickly allows non-native speakers the confidence to use familiar language correctly.

The children used their phonic knowledge to write explanatory text for their story maps, either words or sentences. In the classroom, we set story-related props to support children in role-play to retell the story.

This topic was extended into mathematics as children were exposed to positional terms like over, under and through and pupils were required to use these words independently and accurately. Meanwhile, children were expected to sequence events in the story and to use ordinal numbers such as first, second and third, correctly when discussing events from the story.

It is with great pride that we witnessed their enjoyment, growth and development through the story. Furthermore, they did an amazing job during the Year 1 assembly for retelling the story. They have grown in confidence, and independence and have made huge strides in academic attainment!