British Values: Blog items

Reception- Holly Trip To The Zoo.

Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 2:40pm

On Tuesday Holly Class visited Blackpool Zoo. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny Spring day and everyone enjoyed visiting all the different animals and the habitats they live in. Some were hot, some were wet and some were very smelly!

We saw lions, tigers, zebras, monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, flamingoes, pelicans, farm animals, wolves, lemurs, parrots, camels, elephants and many more! We watched the sea lion show, and learnt a few interesting facts, and had an exciting classroom experience where we looked at parrot feathers, camel fur, a turtle shell, a huge elephant tooth and some of us were even brave enough to hold a cockroach!

"The camel fur was soft and tickly" Esme.

"The cockroach was tickly!" Lucy.

"What a huge tooth- it's so heavy I can't lift up properly!" Mathew.

Year 5 - Shakespeare Aspiring Actors

Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm

This term several of the year 5 pupils have been rehearsing for their performance of William Shakespeare's, Hamlet. Pupils had to learn their parts so they would be 'off script' for the performance, and develop their own take on the characters and dialogue. The attached photos are from our final dress rehearsal, where they were directed and encouraged by Emma Manton from the Royal Shakespeare Company. The pupils delivered an amazing performance on the night, and we are all excited to share the professional photos from the performance when they arrive.

Year 3- Vaisakhi Festival

Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 11:36am

 In RE, we looked at the Vaisakhi festival. We looked at traditional jewellery and clothing, learnt about the traditions of the festival and even got to try some traditional foods. We had a great time and enjoyed learning about a different culture. 

Raising Money for 'Always Elmer'

Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 9:14am

Thank you to all those who purchased a cupcake for our Elmer yesterday! We will be selling a limited number again at the end of the day today.

Nursery Easter Stay and Play

Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:55pm

We invited our nursery families in for an Easter themed stay and play this week. The children had a great time doing Easter crafts with their families and making an Easter biscuit. We also has a special visitor from Communicate who came in to share information about supporting children with their communication and langauge. 

Year 2- Challah bread

Date: 20th Mar 2024 @ 7:41am

Yesterday, Year Two made Challah bread using salt dough.  This was to explore the traditional, weekly, tradition of Shabbat that is celebrated from the sunset on Friday evening to the sunset on Saturday night as part of our Judaism unit.  They traditionally make two loaves which represent the food God provided for the Jews when they were walking through the desert in flight from Egypt.

Year 1 Comic Relief

Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 10:29am

Today Year 1 enjoyed some Comic Relief related activiites. Lots of us came into school with items of red clothing and we then enjoyed creating our own red noses, completing wordsearches and making our own Comic Reflief masks to wear!

Reception World Book Day

Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 10:36am

What an exciting day we all had! 

All the children looked fantastic dressing up as their favourite book characters. To celebrate reading, we read our favourite books in the Reading Den and Book Nook and drew a picture of ourselves in our costumes. 

Meet our new Librarians

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:32pm

Our new librararians have been appointed!📚

They recently visited The Attic for the first time and they were blown away!😮 Not only did they get to explore the magical world of books, but they also had the chance to chat about their new role and how they can make our school library even better!🙌🏼 What's even more exciting is that the National Literacy Trust in Blackpool, in partnership with World of Stories, has generously donated some new books to our library!📖

#NewLibrarians #WorldOfStories #BookLovers #SchoolLibraryGoals

Year 5 - Tennis Training

Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 8:29am

This week our PE journey into 'Net and Wall Games' continued, with Jordan, our PE coach. Pupils practised the 'ready position' and then learned the techniques required to play forehand and backhand ground strokes. Pupils tested their reactions in small games, which meant using the skills they had learned in the lesson. 

Reception- Chinese New Year.

Date: 26th Feb 2024 @ 5:56pm

Reception have been learning about the celebration- Chinese New Year- the year of the dragon. 

They made Chinese lanterns and dragons, painted Chinese dragons, talked about Chinese food and how similar it is to other celebrations, such as Christmas and birthdays.

"You clean the house ready to celebrate and eat special food" Mathew.

"You get presents and treats" Lucy.

"It is the year of the dragon" Loui-Tony.

"i like Chinese food- I eat rice and noodles and chicken" Mireya.

"You eat Chinese food with chopsticks" Myah.

 

Year 5 - Holi vanilla biscuits

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 3:49pm

Today has been a busy day in year 5. We have learned about food hygiene, evaluated existing biscuits, designed, made and decorated biscuits to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi. Now all we need to do is eat them! 

Year 5 - Bikeability Training

Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 3:45pm

Today, 10 pupils in year 5 completed their level 1 and 2 Bikeability training. This meant learning how to look after their bike and how to cycle safely on the road. A huge 'thank you' to Active Blackpool and Mrs McIntyre for all of their effort over the past two days.

Acorns - Chinese New Year Celebrations

Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 4:12pm

This week Acorns have been exploring Chinese New Year. We have enjoyed exploring different artificats relating to the Chinese New year through our Bucket activities and tuff trays. We have enjoyed beating the drums to chinese music and watching the dragon dance before experiencing our own dragon dance. We had lots of fun following the dragon around and running in and out of its body when it  came to class. 

Reception- Icy Surprises!

Date: 20th Feb 2024 @ 1:22pm

"What will melt the ice the quickest?"

This was the question that Reception had to answer when they carried out their very exciting science experiment.

They worked in small groups, discussing the changes that were happening as the ice began to melt. They used warm water, salt, a scrubbing brush and washing up liquid.

They eventually discovered that the warm water melted the ice the quickest and that salt was much better than a scrubbing brush or washing up liquid.

 

"I think it will be warm water that melts the ice the fastest because it is warm like the sun and the sun melts the ice when its frosty." Mathew.

"The brush is too hard to melt the ice- it's not working!" Niko.

"The warm water has melted it quicker than the others- look the toy is already out of it!" Kierah.

Schools Alive 2024

Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 8:10am

We are so proud of all the children who took part in this year's Schools Alive hosted by Blackpool Music Service supported by Friends of BMS and held at the Winter Gardens Blackpool. Their 'School of Rock' performance ROCKED! 🎵🎵🎸🎸🎤🎤

Reception- Internet Safety

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 6:17pm

This week has been Internet Safety Week . It was launched on Tuesday with a whole school assembly followed by a story in our classroom about Smartie The Penguin. Here, the children learnt, along with Smartie, how to keep themselves safe on the internet by talking to a trusted adult if things didn't seem right when playing games or doing research on the internet. 

"I watch films on Youtube" Mathew.

"I ask my mum if I can watch Peppa Pig" Luca.

"Don't talk to a stranger on the internet" Oliver.

Reception- RSE- Caring Friendships and Families

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 5:39pm

This week we have been learning about how friendships can make us feel happy and how we can welcome new friends. We also learnt about how members of our family are different and how they can help us too.

At storytime, we read about Ezza The Elephant and his friends and family. We then made crowns and drew pictures of our own families.

"Always ask someone to play with you if they have no friends to play with" Esmai.

"I sometimes feel nervous but I have my friend who can play with me" Elisha.

"My family is big- lots of brothers and sisters" Oliver.

Year 1 Growing and Changing

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:44pm

For our second RSE lesson we explored how we grow and change. We recapped on our ground rules before our lesson and practised our feeling faces. We all remembered how to listen respecfully to one another and use our talking object on our turn. Today we read another story and discussed key questions about the events. Our story enabled us to discuss how and why babies need more help and care than older children. We tallked about lots of things we can now do that we couldn't do when we were babies. Finally, we created a lifecycle for a human being. We ordered the cards from youngest to eldest and labelled each picture. 

In our third lesson we explored trust, who our trusted adults are and who to talk to if something happens that we don't like. We each identified at least three adults we can each trust in school and at home.

Year 5 - Relationships and sex education

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:03pm

In year 5, we built on our learning in science to look more closely at the changes that take place in human bodies during puberty. In groups, we looked at the physical and emotional changes that happen in boys and girls and discussed the changes that are different between girls bodies and boys bodies. We discussed the importance of personal hygiene, and explored different products that are available to keep us clean and healthy.

Year 1 We Are All Different

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:03pm

This week we have enjoyed our three RSE lessons. Our first lesson included reading the story 'It's Okay to Be Different' by Todd Parrs. We all took part in a circle time session to discuss the story and its key themes. This story helped us understand an important message of acceptance and understanding through a fun story with some silly scenes! We celebrated our individuality through acceptance of others and self-confidence. Through our circle time we then explored how we are all different! We drew and wrote about an imaginary friend who is different to us. Some of us drew friends with different skin colours, different hair colours, friends who were a different size to us or friends who moved differently to us. 

Year 4- Internet Safety Day

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 2:58pm

For Internet Safety Day, Year 4 discussed the positive and negative influences on the internet. As a class, we debated whether certain influences impacted our behaviour and views positively, negatively or both. We also talked about different uses for the internet and the differences it can make to our lives.  

Year 2- Hindu Dharma

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 1:06pm

This half term we have been looking at Hindu Dharma in RE.  We have looked at different Gods and Goddesses and how they are represented as Murtis on s shrine.  The children had the opportunity to look at a shrine which was created in school and learn about home worship.  They had lots of fun finding out information about the religion, especially the different Gods and Goddesses.

Nursery PE

Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 12:12pm

Nursery are throughly enjoying PE sessions with Mr Humble. They have been developing their ball skills by bouncing and catching balls, exploring differemt ways to move their bodies and have even taken part in some team games. PE is also a great way to develop the children's listening and attention skills as well as their PSED skills.

Year 6 - Magistrates Visit

Date: 6th Feb 2024 @ 3:45pm

Today we were visited by local magistrates who told us all about their jobs and how they play integral roles in the court system. We then took part in a mock trial, which centred around a case of online bullying. Children were given roles to play and words to read out, these included prosecution, defence, judge, victim, court usher and witnesses. The children really got a feel for what goes on in a courtroom and some of us are even considering future careers!

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