Our learning context this term is Julia Donaldson. She has written many books that a lot of people are familiar with, for example, The Gruffalo, What the Ladybird Heard, Room on a Broom, Tiddler, Stick Man . . . . . and many books that people are not so familiar with, Goat goes to Playgroup, Cave Baby, Paper Dolls . . . .

Prior to our move we were using the illustrations of these stories to act as a link between the old and new building and the children were selecting illustrations and recreating these in a large frieze format to decorate the walls of Lady Cathcart whilst familiarising themselves with the characters and story content. These stories are such fun due to their rhyming passages, quirky characters and child friendly storylines so we are going to be looking at the children being able to retell and sequence main events from these stories, link certain free flow play activities with the stories, and use these stories as a means for discussion, along with a variety of other activities linked to individual books.