Shirley Hughes was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, in 1927, and studied fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. She started her career as a freelance illustrator in London, illustrating other writers' work, including Noel Streatfeild, Alison Uttley, Ian Seraillier and notably Dorothy Edwards's My Naughty Little Sister series. This story is one of my 3-year-old's favourite in a treasury book of baby and toddler stories and rhymes we have. I like it too because it's easy to read and straightforward - not too descriptive but full of interesting things they get up to on a day trip to the beach. This is a wonderful story about Lucy and Tom's trip to the seaside. Now that it can be considered somewhat 'old fashioned', its charm is enhanced even greater.

Summer 2 Wk 5 29.06.20 | Ruardean Church of England Primary Summer 2 Wk 5 29.06.20 | Ruardean Church of England Primary

Can you learn about sinking and floating? You could test different objects while in the bath to test if they sink or float.Can you make your own ice lollies or ice-cream. Tinned fruit makes delicious lollies. If you don’t have any lolly moulds just use a plastic cup. Try out the ice-cream recipe below. Wow Beeches! It looks like you had a super time with your learning at School and home. Well done and enjoy celebrating your fantastic efforts. For an extra special treat, take a look at Daisy's video (web link below) where she managed to teleport herself to the beach! Well done Daisy. It is fab! Help the children to clap with a steady beat. Once they are familiar with the song they could try the traditional game (it works best if adults are Arch and Leader).

fun with a Seaside topic EYFS- Summer term 3.2, Bundle of fun with a Seaside topic

This week at school we are revising writing numbers. Can you have a go at writing some numbers. You could write them on a tray of sand or salt, with chalks or on paper. You could try some of the activities in this seaside maths activity book. Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her children were young. Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger, and the Alfie series. Her books include the wordless picture book Up and Up, collection of rhymes and poems Out and About, and for the very young The Nursery Collection. Areas of learning: Mathematics | Personal, social and emotional development | Literacy | Understanding the world | Expressive arts and design

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She also collaborated with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy, on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations. Sound discrimination: traffic sounds , horns honking , watery sounds , waves crashing , beach sounds , seagull screeching , digging sounds . She wrote two novels for older children, Hero on a Bicycle, about a 13-year-old Italian boy during the occupation of Florence, and Whistling in the Dark, set during the Liverpool Blitz. Her memoir, A Life Drawing, was published in 2002. Sharing a Shell– Follow the story of a hermit crab as he learns about friendship in this Julia Donaldson-Lydia Monks classic.