Thursday is book turn around day. Reading books are returned for quarantine. We love books in Y2 Year 2 | Victory Heights Primary School Victory Heights Primary School The website ‘EPIC Reading’ is proving to be a real hit with the children. #BookTwitter #littlepeople #edutwitter Danielle Barratt-Duffy Ros Wilson

When creating a culture of reading pays dividends and children choose to read in all the quiet moments! #reading #readingforpleasure #primaryenglish #readingrocks

Year 6 are looking forward to a Zoom call with Caroline Lawrence this week. As a class we’re currently reading The Roman Quests and are thoroughly enjoying it. 📖

This month we are continuing our focus on Oracy. We can’t wait to hear our children shine and find their voices! #oracy #OracyOctober #talk #collabUAE Dubai Oracy Hub 💬🗣💭👥 #primaryenglish

Lots of excitement in FS1 Orange! #eyfs #english #earlyyears #edchat #VHPSLittleThings #VHPSLearns

Can’t wait to see the results of our FS2-Y6 Big Write! These look amazing Year 6 | Victory Heights Primary School

Our teachers going above and beyond for the love of reading! #readingforpleasure #VHPSLittleThings #primaryenglish #roalddahl

This week year one completed their Big Write, retelling the story of Cinderella. We are so proud of your incredible, independent writing🤩English | Victory Heights Primary School #seriousaboutlearning

A big VHPS shout out to Hannah in 6R for always sharing her reading experiences with Mr Alex and for constantly striving to challenge herself 👏 English | Victory Heights Primary School #GoVHPS

This week I trialled some strategies from Jane Considine and Emma Stanley to help improve the teaching of writing Victory Heights Primary School The children absolutely loved used FANTASTICs and we have had an amazing week of shared writing! #primaryenglish #edchatUAE #PrimaryRocks

Year 5 have written our letters and created art for the residents at Langdon House Care Home in Cambridge. The children couldn’t wait to spread their festive cheer around the world! #VHPSTheLittleThings #CommunitySeniorLetters #CollabUAE

As Head of English I have had the pleasure of planning WCR lessons for Y2 the last few weeks. Absolutely loved using Mr Twit’s beard to teach pupils about inference and being reading detectives! #primaryrocks #primaryenglish #reading #readingrocks #edchat #edchatUAE #collabUAE

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! The reading alarm has sounded and Year 5 have evacuated the building with their books! It’s time to enjoy some reading outside! World Book Day UK 📚 #vhpsthelittlethings

Today we are celebrating World Book Day UK 📚 by coming into school dressed as a word. We have enjoyed learning lots of new vocabulary📚 English | Victory Heights Primary School #worldbookday #WorldBookDay2021 #britishschooldubai

Loving the rich vocabulary around Victory Heights Primary School today . A different spin on #WorldBookDay Really purposeful and a genuine enriching learning opportunity. Well done Danielle Barratt-Duffy

Loving the rich vocabulary around Victory Heights Primary School today . A different spin on #WorldBookDay  Really purposeful and a genuine enriching learning opportunity. Well done Danielle Barratt-Duffy

Just a selection of some of the fantastic vocabulary being displayed in Year 5 Green today World Book Day UK 📚

Absolutely amazed at the vocabulary children have picked up today. What a clever and creative bunch Victory Heights Primary School #wordcollectors #WorldBookDay2021 #vocabularyninja #CollabUAE

Proud teacher moment! I wanted to share this piece of work, as the structural and grammatical understanding is, in my opinion, brilliant. With a big focus on editing and improving work, I look forward to the final piece. Danielle Barratt-Duffy , what do you think? 🖊

Loved using writing examples of other children from Pobble to model persuasive arguments this morning. Also using Jane Considine sentence stacking to develop some amazing paragraphs!