If you would like to order Puffin books at huge discounts this Christmas, please make your order via the Woodleigh website before December to guarantee free delivery to school before the end of term. The link to the order page is: http://www.woodleighschool.com/index.php/academic/english/puffin-book-club/ – there’s also online ordering for the recommended reading lists for Years 5-8 here: http://www.woodleighschool.com/index.php/academic/english/reading-list/
Year 8 have been learning about how to prevent, report, delete and remove cyberbullying as part of Anti Bullying Week 2011, in English and IT lessons this week. Pupils have learned how to prevent cyberbullying and harassment by not engaging with bullies online, how to protect themselves using privacy settings and how to report and [read more]
Rory Selvey, a year 8 pupil at Woodleigh School, has won a writing competition organised by Malton Museum as part of the Malton Literature and Writing Festival. Children from all over Ryedale were asked to write an article to persuade the community that museums are important and need to be kept safe. Malton Museum is currently threatened [read more]
Year 7&8 have been writing about Malton Museum as part of a persuasive writing unit in English lessons. Earlier this year Malton museum announced that it would close unless a substantial amount of funding was found. By Robert Bradley, Year 8 Malton museum was established to house items from the area of historic value and importance. The [read more]
Pupils in Years Seven and Eight at Woodleigh have been creating descriptions based on paintings by John Dyer and Sam Walsh, as part of a unit in creative writing. Here are some examples of their descriptions and links to the paintings used as impetus. Will Bradley – Year 7 Inspired by this painting by Sam Walsh I am [read more]
Woodleigh School is offering half price books via the Puffin Book Club scheme. Every book ordered earns the school 50% commission to purchase books for the library, classrooms and learning support. Books can be delivered free to Woodleigh to be sent home with your child. The Autumn term deadline for free delivery to school is [read more]
Part of a Year 8 English project unit on Advertising.
Part of a Year 8 English unit on advertising.
Part of a Year 8 English unit on Advertising.
Spring shape poem, originally uploaded by Woodleigh School. A spring shape poem created in English lessons by Year 3 & 4.
New books in the Woodleigh School library (4 of 4), originally uploaded by Woodleigh School. WOODLEIGH School library has added over 90 new books this week. The new stock includes band new novels by top fiction authors including Stephenie Meyer, Michael Morpurgo, Darren Shan, Antony Horowitz, Rose Impey and Matthew Skelton. In the non-fiction [read more]
Woodleigh School pupils dressed as famous fiction book characters. Highlights included several Sleeping Beauties, Cruella DeVille, the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Rapunzel, Hermione Granger, Pippy Longstocking, Plo Koon, James Bond and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. See all the photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodleighschool/sets/72157626188013300/with/5494091633/
ICT project by Peter in Year 4
Click on the thumbnails about to read the story blurbs , and click on the player below to listen to the stories being read by the pupils. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
The new Week 4 homework title is: “Write a press release (an interesting one page advert giving factual details) about your short film. Your piece of writing should be explanatory and interesting.
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