Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 11:36am
This week the children have been enjoying hunting for minibeasts in our outdoor area. They used magnifying glasses and viewing jars to inspect them. looking at their colour, number of legs, if they have antennae and naming them too.
"I think i have found a wood louse" Perisa.
"This minibeast has antennae" Kevin.
"I've found a butterfly on the bush" Dina
"Look at the snail...it's on my finger...it's small" Levi.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 9:12am
This week children in Year 5 have continued their art journey into fashion design. In this lesson, pupils were inspired by three British designers and created the designs for their final piece.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 3:52pm
All of the year 5 pupils had a brilliant time at the zoo. We saw lots of fantastic animals including lions, tigers and penguins. We also had a lesson from the zoo staff about 'Animal Classification', which linked to our science topic.
Reception- Keeping Safe in the Sun.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 1:36pm
Over the last few weeks, the weather has become quite warm and sunny- some days it has even been hot!
The children in Reception have been learning about sun safety.
"Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from the bright sunshine" Myla- Gray.
"You need to wear a sun hat to stop your head from getting too much sun" Lilah.
"Make sure you wear sun screen. It stops you from getting sunburnt" Hazel.
"Always drink lots of water to stay hydrated" Kevin.
"Remember to stay in the shade too" Theo.
Take a look at us keeping safe in the sun while we play outside.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:22am
In today's lesson, Year 5 took inspiration from 'Look into The Night', a piece of K-Pop music, and composed their own pieces using the Charanga software 'YUMU'. This is an aopportunity for children to use their knowledge of notes, composition, affect and timing as well as their own creativity to compose and perform their composed pieces.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 11:47am
Reception have been creating artwork after reading the story The Dot by Peter H Reynolds. This is a story about developing a good growth mindset when being creative. Everyone painted a large dot and drew a face on it and then designed their own pattern on a smaller dot. We painted the dots pink and used pink and red felt tips to draw the features on a face and create our patterns.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 8:26am
As the weather has improved, Acorns have introduced Funky Feet in the afternoons. Funky Feet is a sensory regulation walking activity which engages multiple senses of the body, and supports the nervous system, emotional wellbeing and self regulation.
We enjoy following the footsteps around the playground, moving in different ways and then exploring the trim trail. We will be enjoying this activity for the next two terms while the sun is shining.
VE Day - 80th Anniversary Celebrations
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 5:28pm
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:56pm
Alongside the rest of the school, today we learnt about VE day. We began the day with our online assembly, before enjoying a lovely themed lunch to celebrate!
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:48am
This week saw Year 5 begin their new journey in Reading into Writing. As always, we begin with an oracy lesson. We are looking at the narrative poem 'The Highway Man' by Alfred Noyes. The children worked in groups, each taking a stanza to use their oracy skills including intonation, expression and performace to bring the stanza to life in a performance in front of the class.
Reception Imaginative Play Outside
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 4:33pm
Outside the children have been working together in the mud kitchen to create their own narratives through imaginative and real life play. The children worked together the chop and prepare a healthy meal for their family. The developed their oracy skills by discussing together why different foods are healthy or unhealthy.
"I've made Japan soup- it full of vegatables" Kevin
"Brocolli is healthy" Levi
"I've made soup" Renesmae
"Too much sugar is bad for your teeth" Freyja
"I have icecream but thats my special treat" Harry
Date: 6th May 2025 @ 2:09pm
We were thrilled to welcome local poet and author Nathan Parker to our school, where he shared his inspiring journey into writing with the children. Hailing from Blackpool, Nathan spoke passionately about how his love for poetry began at a young age, sparked by his surroundings and a desire to tell stories. He captivated the students with tales of how Blackpool, with its vibrant culture and seaside atmosphere, influences much of his work. Nathan didn’t just talk about poetry—he worked closely with the children to create their own poem, encouraging them to use their imaginations and express their unique voices. The students loved the hands-on experience, and their faces lit up as their ideas came together into something truly special. Nathan’s visit was a wonderful reminder of the power of creativity, and he left the children with the message to keep writing and never stop dreaming—no matter where their own creative journeys take them.
Nursery and the Beautiful Garden
Date: 5th May 2025 @ 4:20pm
The Nursery garden was beginning to look a bit sorry for itself and it was time to give it a make-over! After a lot of preparation,digging out beds, removing weeds and moving countless wheel barrows of garden rubble, it was time to plant some beautiful plants, flowers, grasses and herbs.The children played a big part in creating the garden and helped to dig out the old soil and plant the new flowers. The garden now looks beautful and we are excited to help look after it and watch the plants grow, Extra special thanks goes to Mrs McAllister. Without her expert knowldge and hard work, this wouldn't have been possible. Also a big thanks to Mr Galloway and Mr Harding who had the hard task of digging up the beds! And finally, thank you to the all the nursery staff and children for all their help.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 10:08am
Year 5 have kicked off an exciting new partnership with the charity Lancashire MIND, diving into some really important work all about building resilience and looking after their mental health. They've started exploring how to recognise and manage their emotions, support each other, and develop positive habits to boost their wellbeing – all in fun, engaging sessions that get everyone talking and thinking. It’s been a great opportunity for the children to learn valuable life skills, and they're already showing lots of enthusiasm and maturity as they begin this journey together.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:02am
This is the second lesson where all the musical learning and activities will be focused around the song Look Into The Night. In this lesson we Listened to and Appraised Look into the Night – this time focussing specifically on its genre, tempo and our opinions. We used our music stem sentences to give our opinions and to comment on the songs structure. Finally, we used the glockenspiels to play along with Look into the Night – we found this very difficult!
"This has a VERY fast tempo – it’s called ALLEGRO"
Alexander
"K-Pop means Korean Pop"
Darius
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 5:18pm
Today we looked at the use of Murti in Hindu worship. We learnt that Murtis are often colourful and bright and that Hindus give offerings to them. We then looked at lots of different examples of Murtis, including both Gods and Goddesses, and looked at why Hindus may worship them.We then chose a Murti to represent using salt dough, thinking about why Hindus may choose this Murti to worship.
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 2:22pm
This week Holly and Willow classes have been focusing on their running skills. They took part in relay races where they also learnt how to work together as a team.
This enables them to develop their gross motor skills, move energetically and negotiate space.
Take a look at our photos.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 4:08pm
Today Year 6 took part in a pre-SATs Kooth workshop online. The aim of the event was to talk to children about how they felt going into the SATs and what strategies they could use to help them with any worries or anxities they were having about the tests. The children were also introduced to the Kooth website, which is a support platform for young people. Kooth is the UK's largest and longest established digital mental health service that partners with NHS and local authority organisations to deliver mental health support to young children. If children would like to create their own account then we encourage parents/carers to sit with their children and look through the website.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 11:09am
In the next two lessons, all the musical learning and activities will be focussed around the song Look Into The Night. Learn all about K-pop music with Look Into The Night. K-pop is a style of Pop music that began in the 1990s in South Korea and is now very popular all around the world!
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:28pm
Today, we participated in Art Day based upon the book 'The Dot' inspiring that anyone can be an artist by starting with a mark. First, we explored making a portrait focusing on practicing how to draw our key features and drew them on an orange dot as this was our colour of focus. Finally, this afternoon we explored creating patterns using three colours: red, orange and yellow.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 2:26pm
We began our new half term by reading the story 'The Dot.' We talked about the message in the story and the characteristics the character shows. We then painted a background on our circles, before creating two different dots. One showed a self portrait of ourselves and on the other we created a pattern dot using oil pastels and felt tips.
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 6:17pm
Today Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed a very sunny day at Blackpool Zoo! We saw lots of animals including elephants, monkeys, lions, wallabies, giraffes, sealions and penguins! We enjoyed observing the animals in their habitats and looking at/reading the signs to find out where the animals originate from and their diet. It was a very busy day at the zoo and we were all very well behaved and represented our school brilliantly.
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:41am
In PSHE this half-term, we’ve focused on celebrating Neurodiversity Week, learning about Autism and neurodivergence through fun activities. We discussed how everyone’s brain works differently and explored this with a creative task where we followed tricky instructions to make pictures—each of us interpreted them differently, showing how unique we all are. We also talked about how things like visual aids and clearer instructions can help us communicate better. On top of that, we explored time management by looking at how we manage deadlines (like homework) and the tools that help us stay on track, such as lists, timers, and alarms. Finally, we discussed teamwork, looking at different teams (from sports to emergency services) and how it feels to be part of a successful group. It’s been a great journey of learning about individuality, time, and collaboration!
Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 6:53pm
Our Easter Disco was enjoyed by lots of our Year 1 children! We enjoyed wearing our party clothes, dancing and playing party games!
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 6:26pm
This week the children in Reception have been exploring why Easter is a special celebration in the Christian calendar. We started the week of attending a special Easter assembly led by our Year Six children. Back in the classroom we explored a range of new words using our vocabulary and explored the key events which took place in 'Holy Week' We even had a special visit from Reverend Matt who explained why Easter is importanct to Christains and how is celebrated throughout the year through holy communion. To support our learning during continuous provision we were set several challenges including sequencing the event of Holy week, making our own representation of the crucifixtion and completing a tresure hunt in the outside area looking for special symbols accosiated with Easter including; the cross and eggs.
"Jesus died on the cross" Freyja
"The put nails in his hands" Theo
"He had a special meal with his friends, the disciples" Lilah
"He gave them bread for his body and wine for his blood" Aurora
"They put him in a tomb" Emily
"When they went back it was empty" Dennis
"Jesus had come back to life" Lily-Mae
