Y2 North of England
There are schools in this group:
- Just Imagine
- Ribble Drive Primary School
- Chantlers
- Fairfield Community Primary School
- Greenhill Primary
- Higher Lane Primary School
- Holcombe Brook
- Holly Mount RC
- Holy Trinity, Bury
- Our Lady of Grace, Bury
- Park View Primary
- Radcliffe Hall
- St Joseph and St Bede R.C. Primary School
- St Marie’s, Bury
- St Mary’s Hawkshaw
- St Mary’s C.E. Primary School, Prestwich
- St Thomas’s C.E. Primary School, Bury
- Sunny Bank
- Whitefield Community Primary School
- All Saints, Whitefield
- Lowercroft Primary School
- Our Lady of Lourdes, Bury
- St Paul’s C Of E Primary School, Bury
- Lydgate Infant School
- Faringdon Academy, Sunderland
- Summerville Primary School
- Kearsley West Primary and Nursery School
- Caldicotes Primary Academy
- Belle Vale Community Primary School, Liverpool
- Whitefield Primary School, Liverpool


























Updates
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Description of our Dragon
Here’s a description of the dragon that we made.
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Submission by St Joseph and St Bede R.C. Primary School
St Joseph and St Bede Performance Poetry ‘Staying Awake’
We learned and performed one of the poems from Message from the Moon. We really enjoyed the variety of poems and using rhythm and rhyme to enhance our reading. We especially enjoyed using actions to help us to remember the words.
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Rare Dragon
Our Rare Dragon is made up of a combination of individual ideas from our 6 Reading Gladiators. The King would be so desperate to capture our dragon because he is unique. The OLOL Dragon has a colourful body so that he can camouflage in any adventure. He has fire proof claws and his tongue holds fire breathing powers. At the end of his 20 foot ice tail there is an electric sting. His tail also powers him through water. The strong spikes down his back are for protection against any human or beast that tries to cause him danger. His blue and purple wings help him to fly in the moonlight. When he is in extreme danger, he can shrink down to the size of a mouse.
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Submission by Holcombe Brook
Music for the Bala Mengro
We decided to start our music with a call to the Bala Mengro so we started with our ‘guitars’. Next we started to quicken up our music and Ruby played her collection of instruments. We thought the Bala Mengro would be ready to stamp and dance now so we quickened the beat and made it louder with our homemade shakers. Finally we finished with a slower, quieter tinkling sound made by coins in a clean sock. We had great fun.
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The Library at Snarksville
We discussed the description in the book. We then drew it. We decided that if book characters did actually escape from books then they’d cause lots of trouble!
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The Secret Railway-We loved it!
We loved all the twists and turns in this book. We loved how Ella and Leo were so different. Leo was the protector. Ella was adventurous. We also loved learning new words and their meanings. Here we looked at the meaning of ‘Scrap’ and came up lots of ideas.
Comments
24th May 2018, 9:47pmHi Whitefield Gladiators! You have been thinking widely and deeply about some of the word you have encountered in your reading. Thank you for sharing with us. -
Erica’s Elephant
At SJSB we discussed what we already knew about elephants before reading the novel. We then made a PicCollage of our ideas. We even got a tweet back from the author! How exciting!
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24th May 2018, 6:11pmI wonder if Erica's Elephant will be as you imagined? -
Don’t Cross the Line
Year 2 have talked to their adults at home about rules. Super thoughts.
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15th May 2018, 8:49pmI think we could all learn something from your rules Year Two! -
Don’t Cross the Line!
We have had lots of fun designing posters with our own rules – some of them would be very difficult to follow!
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10th May 2018, 11:52pmHello St Mary's Hawkshaw. Lovely to see you with your posters. Did you cross the line, I wonder?11th May 2018, 10:21amThe boys in our group said they would definitely cross the line to get the football back! -
Don’t Cross the Line
We really enjoyed getting into this book. Here we are writing in speech bubbles about what one of the characters might say next.
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26th Apr 2018, 5:07pmThere are so many gaps to fill with this book. Lots to think and talk about. -
Signs
St J St B Gladiators looked around school to see which other signs we could find. We talked about how we know what we should or shouldn’t do. We can’t wait to see what the next book is all about!
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18th Apr 2018, 9:41amExcellent spotting of signs! -
Would you cross the line?
At SJSB, we discussed where we see caution signs and have been busy thinking what our next book could be called…
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18th Apr 2018, 9:40amDid anyone cross the line? -
The Secret Railway
Our Year 2 Gladiators are totally absorbed in the adventures that take place in this story! We are loving the magic and surprises around every corner!
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4th Apr 2018, 1:25pmHello St Mary's Hawkshaw. Lovely to hear from you and to see you enjoying this book. Hope you are enjoying an Easter break too. -
Believe and achieve as Gladiators!
We have been thinking about following your dreams like Ossiri and how you can achieve anything if you believe in yourself.
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28th Jan 2018, 10:24pmKeep believing St Mary's Hawkshaw. We love the colourful letters on your wall. -
We love the Bala Mengro…
…although we are pretty sure he ate the stranger!
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25th Jan 2018, 10:07pmHello everyone! You are very ogre-like in this picture but I know you are all lovely really. I enjoyed visiting you. I hope you like the next book.26th Jan 2018, 11:19amWe think he ate him too. -
Making instruments
We enjoyed making instruments out of recycled materials. Ready to compose our music tomorrow.
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25th Jan 2018, 4:19pmThat looks like a lot of fun. What sorts of sounds can you make with your instruments?26th Jan 2018, 11:22amWe made loud sounds, quiet sounds and peaceful sounds.30th Jan 2018, 8:56pmWe are designing instruments by collecting unwanted or used objects from our homes. We can't wait to share with you what we make. -
Sharing Our Dreams
Fairfield Gladiators enjoyed sharing their dreams in our session today. They also found it interesting to discover what their family members dreams were when they were younger.
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22nd Jan 2018, 6:40pmI expect you had a very interesting discussion with people at home. Hold onto your dreams Fairfield Gladiators.26th Jan 2018, 11:27amMy dad's dream was to be an astronaut but it didn’t come true.30th Jan 2018, 8:52pmWe have just discussed our dreams at Whitefield today. Many of us discussed how we would like to be teachers as well as artists and piano players. -
The Ogre
In the middle we thought about what Ossirri thought about the Ogre before she met him. On the outside of the outline we thought about what Ossirri thought about the Ogre after she met him. We compared the collections of words.
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Emily’s Dragon
Emily’s Dragon makes people fall in love
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17th Jan 2018, 1:56pmHello Emily What a super dragon. I enjoyed reading your class book today. Lots of lovely dragons for me to look at.19th Jan 2018, 10:40amVery good dragon. I hope you make more. Keep it up. From The Holcombe Brook Gladiators.22nd Jan 2018, 4:16pmYou have made a great dragon that I am sure will inspire many people. From Sedgley Park Bury Reading Gladiators.22nd Jan 2018, 4:17pmYou have made a great dragon. We are sure it will inspire other people! From the Y4 Sedgley Park Reading Gladiators. -
Thinking about the orge
We read the description of the orge from the farmer’s daughter. We drew what we thought he looked like and what we know about him at the moment. We thought about things we could infer from this description too.
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12th Jan 2018, 10:34amWonderful to see you working collaboratively and sharing your ideas.19th Jan 2018, 10:41amThanks for your comment Sam. From The Holcombe Brook Gladiators. -
A poster to persuade people to like snakes.
We used pic collage to create posters.
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Poster to persuade people to like snakes
We used pic collage to make posters.
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Persuading people to like snakes
We used pic collage to create posters.
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Poster to persuade people to like snakes
We used pic collage to create a poster.
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We ‘do’ like snakes…so far!
Here are SJSB Gladiators trying out the different ways snakes move. We had to guess which method our partner had chosen!
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9th Dec 2017, 2:52pmHaha - a clever play on the title St Joseph and St Bede. I will be seeing Nicola Davies this week and will be sure to tell her about your super work. -
Grey Island Red Boat Puppets
For our homework challenge we made puppets for the two main characters. We enjoyed sharing them today before we began our new book.
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30th Nov 2017, 7:04pmLovely puppets and super smiles. It looks as though you have a lot of fun in your Gladiator group.19th Jan 2018, 10:42amWe love your puppets. They are fantastic. Lola from Holcombe Brook. -
Thankyou!
After updating the Reading Gladiator website with our ideas and work, we were so lucky to win new books for our school worth £100. Thankyou! We have already read two of them as our end of the day story!
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All Saints Primary School Whitefield
We worked really hard today with our parents to make some shadow puppets.
We are looking forward to making our own puppet shows now using the characters from Grey Island, Red Boat.Comments
22nd Nov 2017, 8:38pmHow lovely that your parents came In to help with this activity. I think other schools might like to do the same thing.19th Jan 2018, 10:44amIt is good and keep it up. From Ruby at Holcombe Primary. -
Thought bubbles and shared reading
At SJSB we wrote thought bubbles for our class Reading Gladiator journal. We enjoyed using question marks in our writing.
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17th Nov 2017, 10:59pmThought bubbles are a great way to pose questions. Do you think you will find the answers to your questions?19th Nov 2017, 6:27pmWe really hope so! We are at the end of chapter 3, so it is a real mystery at the moment. We love the idea of the colour 'tickling our eyes'! :)19th Nov 2017, 6:29pmWe really hope so! We are at the end of chapter 3 at the moment so it is a real mystery to us. We love the idea of the colour making our eyes tickle! :)19th Nov 2017, 10:48pmThat's a clever way to describe the sensation.19th Jan 2018, 10:45amWe have read this book too. It is really good. Hope you enjoy it. Keep up the hard work. Thomas from The Holcombe Brook Gladiators. -
Freeze Frames
SJSB Gladiators freeze framed the action which took place in the book. We loved exploring the thoughts and feelings of the characters.
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17th Nov 2017, 11:00pmThese Freeze frames are very expressive. Super work!
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