Y2 North West 2018
Welcome to the 2018 – 19 Reading Gladiators challenge. Let the reading begin!
There are schools in this group:
- Just Imagine
- St Paul’s C Of E Primary School, Bury
- Sedgley Park Community Primary School
- Fairfield Community Primary School
- Ribble Drive Primary School
- Belle Vale Community Primary School, Liverpool
- Woodlands Community Primary School, Birkenhead
- Banks Road Primary School
- The Beacon CE Primary School
- Norman Pannell Primary School
- Chapel Street Primary School
- St Thomas’s C.E. Primary School, Bury
- Guardian Angels R.C. Primary School, Bury
- St Joseph and St Bede R.C. Primary School
- Unsworth Primary School
- Bishops Martin Primary School
- St Maries R C Primary School
- St Joseph’s RCP School Ramsbottom
- St. Sebastian’s R. C. Primary School
Updates
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Submission by St Joseph and St Bede R.C. Primary School
Light and Dark
The children at St Joseph and St Bede were given a task to create art work based on light and dark which we had experienced through reading Blue John. This is the creation of one of our year 2 Reading Gladiators, Nicole. We love the way the colours burst against the black background.
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Feelings charts
We made a feeling chart after thinking about the feelings we saw when reading Perfect
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Exploring feelings at SJSB
We looked at the feelings seen in Perfect and made a feelings chart on the table.
Comments
14th May 2019, 10:43am
Wow! Your facial expressions show your deep understanding of this story. -
Perfect
SJSB GLadiators gathered their ideas about ‘Perfect’ before reading.
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25th Apr 2019, 1:47pm I wonder if you will add to this when you have finished reading. -
PERFECT
We used piccollage at St Joseph and St Bede to gather our ideas about the word ‘Perfect’ before reading the book. Take a look. We even got a tweet back from the author!
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25th Apr 2019, 1:53pm How exciting to have a reply! -
Submission by Banks Road Primary School
Year 2 Freeze Frames of The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse
Here are the fantastic Year 2 Reading Gladiators of Banks Road Primary School, Liverpool showing amazing expression during role play and Freeze Framing of 'The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse'.
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12th Dec 2018, 8:09amWe always love it when good books allow you to role play and re-enact. You have all done such a great job of using your eyes and bodies to convey the story. Thank you for your wonderful entry Gladiators. -
Submission by St Joseph and St Bede R.C. Primary School
Wolf, Duck and Mouse at St Joseph and St Bede
St Joseph and St Bede, Bury Freeze Frames from the story of the Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse.
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12th Dec 2018, 8:05amWell done Gladiators. Your eyes really drew us in and made us quite emotional, You have obviously done a lot of thinking about this book We loved the flying freeze frame and the way that you represented the scenery too. Thank you for submitting this. -
What does ‘awesome’ mean at St Joseph and St Bede?
We used the iPad at SJSB to collate our ideas, and tweeted them to Stacy McAnulty, author of ‘Planet Awesome’. To our surprise, right at the end of our session she tweeted back. Some very excited Gladiators going home tonight!!
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7th Dec 2018, 5:52am Fabulous ideas SJSB and how awesome to hear back from Stacy!7th Dec 2018, 6:25amWhat awesome progress we have made on our planet to be able to do that ! -
Year 2 St Joseph’s Ramsbottom
Exploring their new book ‘Planet Awesome’ and discussing likes/dislikes.
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6th Dec 2018, 10:09amYou are all looking very interested already. What would you call our planet? We are looking forward to finding out about all your finding out! -
SJSB ‘The moral of the story’
We thought about the moral of the story in ‘The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse’.
We all had very different opinions, but we all felt that it definitely wasn’t about ‘Greed never pays’. Year 2 ruled that one out straight away! We enjoyed explaining our reasons and developed our vocabulary.Comments
30th Nov 2018, 12:31pm How interesting. Sometimes the discussion is more important than coming to an agreement.30th Nov 2018, 12:35pmIsn't it interesting that we all have different ideas and that a good book develops our reasoning skills. -
Sedgley Park Primary School
Yay!!
Runners-up in the mini-challenge!!
Thank-you for the gorgeous book Zeraffa Giraffa!
We were so excited as we opened our special delivery! We can’t wait to read it! We will then add it to our class library! xComments
27th Nov 2018, 11:53amWell deserved and we are very happy you like it. How lovely that you will be sharing it with the whole school. We are sure you will be able to think of a brilliant way to entice others to read it. -
Sedgley Park Primary School –
Exploring the characters of Duck and Mouse through drama!
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27th Nov 2018, 11:51amWhat interesting characters these two are. How did bringing them to life through drama help you understand them better? Which aspects of Duck and Mouse interested you most we wonder? -
Sedgley Park
One of our favourite activities so far – Reader’s Theatre!
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27th Nov 2018, 11:46amThis looks very dramatic! What is it about Reader's Theatre that you all like so much? We are imagining some very interesting voices here. Well done Sedgley Park Gladiators -
SJSB Wolf, Duck, Mouse
We had such fun recreating the expressions from Jon Klassen’s illustrations
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23rd Nov 2018, 12:57am
Great expressions SJSB and very convincing. -
SJSB Wolf, Duck, Mouse
We explored the eyes of the characters in the book to see what this told us about the characters and their feelings.
Comments
23rd Nov 2018, 12:56am Isn't it amazing how much we can tell by a character's eyes? Sometimes it's just the eyebrows. See if you can find a copy of Bethan Wollvin's Little Red in school, or find an image of the book jacket online. What do the eyes of this character suggest to you? -
Wolf, Duck, Mouse
At St Joseph and St Bede we have been using Reader’s Theatre to explore our latest text. There were great performances all round!
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16th Nov 2018, 2:25pm This looks wonderful! -
Wolf, Duck, Mouse
Conscience Alley at St Joseph and St Bede. We used puppets to help us with our characterisation.
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23rd Nov 2018, 1:24am Puppets and Consience Alley, what an inspired combination. I am sure some of the other schols will find this useful. Thank you for sharing.26th Nov 2018, 6:12pmI will certainly try this idea at Albert Pye next time we try conscience alley. -
Wolf, Duck, Mouse
At St Joseph and St Bede we made short conversations between Duck and Mouse. They gave each other advice about what they should do next.
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16th Nov 2018, 3:28pmwhat wonderful images ! Mouse and duck look very engaged. What sort of advice are they dishing out we wonder? -
Submission by Chapel Street Primary School
Glass makers daughter display
Children in year 2 imagined if they had their own glass palace and made stained glass windows.Also talked about how we can make Daniela smile!
Just Imagine comment: We thought it was a lovely idea to pick up on the stained glass idea and to experiment with your own art work. We also liked your siggestions for trying to make Daniela smile. we hope you enjoy your next book.
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Submission by Belle Vale Community Primary School, Liverpool
Belle Vale Y2 – Glassmaker’s Daughter
Year 2 Reading Gladiators have been encouraging KS1 children to read the Glassmaker's Daughter.
Comments
6th Nov 2018, 2:38pm Just Imagine comment: what a dramatic impact this display makes. It's really nice to see that you each have something to say about the book to make your classmates want to pick it up and read it.7th Nov 2018, 11:46amI'm sure nobody will walk past this beautiful display and not want to read the book. A fantastic way to lure other readers in.7th Nov 2018, 1:11pmWhat a display! That certainly catches the eye and would certainly make me want to read the book. Congratulations Belle Vale! -
Submission by Sedgley Park Community Primary School
Sedgley Park Y2 Reading Gladiators
The illustrations in The Glassmaker’s Daughter inspired us to recreate the glass palace using water colours and glitter!
We also introduced Daniela. Will Diana smile?
Who is going to read our book to find out? -
Creating our own stained Glass windows.
Children imagined what their palace would be like and then made glass windows .
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4th Nov 2018, 4:39pm We thought this was absolutely gorgeous. Glass is such a wonderful material. You can hear mre about Venetian glass in the podcast we have just done with Dianne Hofmeyr, which will be uploaded to the website soon.7th Nov 2018, 11:45amwow! these are stunning. I love stained glass do you take commissions?7th Nov 2018, 1:13pmThere are clearly some fabulous artists reading this book! Amazing job!16th Nov 2018, 1:06pmThe children at Chapel Street loved doing this ! -
Sedgley Park Year 2 Reading Gladiators
Why is Daniela so sad?
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4th Nov 2018, 4:42pm We love the way that your display shows the work you have been doing throughout the month. We hope that other children enjoy reading the book now that you have introduced it to them.7th Nov 2018, 11:48amThis display captures so many elements of the book, the beautiful imagery, emotions and colours of sadness and joy. -
Sedgley Park Reading Gladitors
Our sign up sheet! Who is going to read The Glassmaker’s Daughter next?
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4th Nov 2018, 4:43pm A sign up sheet is a great idea. I wonder if any other schools are doing this?7th Nov 2018, 11:49amI would definitely want to sign up! great idea. -
Sedgley Park Reading Gladiators
Our display to promote The Glassmaker’s Daughter’.
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4th Nov 2018, 4:44pm An eye catching display with your wonderful glass palace at the centre. How did you create that glass effect? I am sure Jane Ray would be interested to know. -
St Joseph’s Year 2 Reading Gladiators- The Glassmaker’s Daughter
Year 2 ‘hot seating’ as Angelo in a recent Reading Gladiators session.
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23rd Oct 2018, 3:52pmHotseating is such an important way to understand motive and think with empathy. I wonder What sort of questions did you ask that allowed you to understand Angelo on a personal level? -
What could make Daniela smile?
The Guardian Angel’s Gladiators have been thinking about what could make Daniela smile. Some of the ideas were giving her a shiny necklace, sharing some chocolate ice cream or dressing up like a clown.
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18th Oct 2018, 4:53pm Great suggestions. There’s one thing on your list that makes me smile. I wonder if you can guess which one? Poor melancholy Daniela, I hope someone can make her smile! -
Sedgley Park Primary School
Our Year 2 Reading Gladiators talking about why Daniela might be feeling sad!
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11th Oct 2018, 9:59pm Hello everyone! Did you find any clues in the pictures? What makes you feel sad? Do you think it might be the same for Daniela? -
Sedgley Park Primary School
What we know, can guess and want to know about Daniela from The Glassmaker’s Daughter.
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11th Oct 2018, 9:56pm What interesting ideas. You cam up with so many different reasons that Daniela might be sad and they all make good sense. Your predictions look good too. Do you think reading other stories has hhelped you to make these predictions? -
Sedgley Park Primary School
Our Reading Gladiators discussed why Daniela might be feeling sad!
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11th Oct 2018, 9:53pm I like your journals. It's a great way to keep a record of your ideas and you will be able to look back at the end of the year and see the reading journey that you have travelled together.12th Oct 2018, 9:30amI love these thoughtful entries... I want to go to Manchester too! ( and in my experience dads always say NO to new cats )
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