Quadblogging is an exciting opportunity for us at Sir John Lillie to share all our brilliant work with other blogging schools in the United Kingdom and around the world. Quad means 4. We are part of a group of four blogging schools; one in Bolton in the north of England and two in Australia. [...]
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We have such a busy week coming up next week, so we thought we’d detail all the information on our blog here and also on our school website. Tomorrow, Friday 24th June, is a Mufti Day. This Mufti Day is in order to raise money towards our International evening the following week. Children can [...]
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Reading is such an important skill to have, as it’s something we do everyday. There are many different stages to master when learning to read. You’ll use these at different times, or maybe all at once. We at Sir John Lillie put a strong emphasis on reading and how to read. When teaching younger [...]
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A while ago now, I entered our school blog into a competition. It was the first year this competition has run. The Education Blog Awards 2011, was looking for all the great and wonderful blogs schools have. There were four categories; class blog of the year, teacher blog of the year, whole school blog of [...]
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Hello everyone, I hope you’re enjoying your weekend, I know I certainly am, after an exciting week in France. Anyway, I wanted to tell you about a great new service that we have signed up to at Sir John Lillie Primary, it’s called Purple Mash. Purple Mash is a creative online workspace, which can be [...]
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As I’m sure you are all aware, on Friday 29th April many people around the United Kingdom and around the world celebrated the wedding of HRH Prince William and Catherine Middleton. We at SJL celebrated the wedding of the couple by studying past members of the UK Royal family and also focusing much of our [...]
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Wow, these holidays have been lovely so far, what beautiful weather we are having. I hope that you are out and about, enjoying all of it! A quick reminder for you all . . . we have an exciting challenge for you all, which was to take a photograph of yourself reading in an unusual [...]
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