Last month, our English lessons were all about wildlife and wild animals. As part of this topic, our 3rd grade students completed Hogwarts Mission 4: Flight of the Phoenix. In this magical adventure, Fawkes the Phoenix needed help to bring the magical sword to Harry through the dark Chamber of Secrets. To light the way,... Seguir lendo →
Magical Breaking News – The Dark Wizards and Witches
This week, our 4th-grade students completed their final Hogwarts Mission of the school year! In this last adventure, the students became Magical Investigators at Hogwarts. Their challenge was to help Hogwarts find one of these dangerous dark witches or wizards who had escaped from the Forbidden Tower. To complete the mission, they created a Wanted... Seguir lendo →
Speaking English Through Games: 6th Grade
This week, 6th Grade practised future plans using going to through oral games. The pupils spoke, listened, moved around the classroom and worked with their classmates. The aim was to use English in a fun and meaningful way. Esta semana, en 6º de Primaria, practicamos os plans de futuro con going to a través de... Seguir lendo →
Mission 3: Bringing Magic Back to the Great Hall!
Our Grade 6 students completed Mission 3: The Mystery of the Great Hall as part of our Hogwarts adventure. In this challenge, the Great Hall was empty: no food, no plates and no cups! The house-elves were missing, so our young wizards had to create a magical menu to bring the feast back. During this... Seguir lendo →
Hogwarts Mission 3: Learning English Through Magic
Our students in Grade 5 have enjoyed a new magical adventure in English with Hogwarts Mission 3. Through different challenges, they first planned their ideas before writing, and then they created, wrote, and presented their work with great enthusiasm and imagination. In the Genially shared in this post, you will be able to see the... Seguir lendo →
The Fruit Basket Game: Learning English with Handa’s Surprise
Today, our 3, 4 and 5-year-old children enjoyed a lovely group activity based on our own version of the story Handa’s Surprise. The children worked in teams with a fruit spinner and an empty basket. They took turns to spin the wheel and say the name of the fruit in English. Then they had to... Seguir lendo →
Mission: Find the Red Ball!
Today our classroom turned into a mystery zone. To finish our unit, we transformed the classroom into an Action Zone to practice everything we learned about furniture, animals, and those tricky prepositions (in, on, under). Our goal was simple but challenging: use our Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing skills to solve the mystery of the... Seguir lendo →
Learning Vocabulary with Flip Books in Primary
In our English lessons, we try to learn new words in a fun, active and meaningful way. One of the resources we use in class is the vocabulary flip book. Flip books are small and simple, but they are very useful. Pupils can write words, add pictures and organise vocabulary in an easy way. They... Seguir lendo →
Ready, Set… Exit Ticket
Today, we want to share one of the most successful routines in our English classes: Exit Tickets. An Exit Ticket is a quick activity (2 to 3 minutes) we do at the end of the lesson. It includes a simple question or challenge to see what the students learned today. Un Exit Ticket é unha... Seguir lendo →
Learning English Through Play: Bingo & Build the Sentence
This week in our English classroom, we continued working with our story Where’s My Red Ball? through two interactive activities that helped us practise listening, speaking and early writing skills in a fun and meaningful way. The first activity was a Bingo game. But not a traditional vocabulary bingo! Instead of calling out single words,... Seguir lendo →
Our Fun Learning Stations Day with “The Mitten”
In our last session of the unit “The Mitten”, we had a very special and fun day. The goal of the session was to review and practice everything we learned during the unit using learning stations. Learning stations are different activity areas around the classroom. Children move from one station to another and complete different... Seguir lendo →
Our Weekend Diaries: Mission 2 Complete!
In Mission 2, inspired by Harry Potter, we had an important challenge. We had to find a powerful artefact hidden in Hogwarts. To get it, we needed a magical key. And to earn the key, we had to write about our weekend routines. First, in Level 1: Plan your work, we organised what we do... Seguir lendo →

















