We had a very exciting start to reading week today when we logged into a podcast of a real live author discussing and reading his book. James Catchpole told us all about his latest book – You’re So Amazing – about a boy called Joe who has one leg. James – who has one leg himself – then showed off his amazing football skills. We were all super impressed!

We are so looking forward to the rest of the week and immersing ourselves in reading!

Don’t forget that we are holding a book sale all week with books only 50p!

We had a fantastic time today in our Great Fire of London workshops. Some of us even dressed the part! We met Thomas Farriner – the baker who owned the shop where the fire was thought to have started, and also Samuel Peyps, who buried his famous diaries containing a recount of the event in his garden to protect them from the flames. We sang London’s Burning with actions, used tableaux to illustrate certain points of the story and even acted out the events to a poem. Many thanks to Jenna for bringing our history learning to life!

We had another first-hand taste of the life of a local superhero today with a visit from the police. We were told how many people it takes to process a crime and had a good look around a police vehicle. We even got to try out the ‘blues and twos’ (lights and sirens). Our fantastically interesting visit ended with a demonstration of a search drone, that uses thermal imaging to search and find criminals or lost people.

Thanks so much for coming!