Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 10:00am
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 4:30pm
We had a wonderful visit from Rachel, who came in to talk to us about the Jewish faith. She shared some really fascinating insights into Judaism, including central beliefs like the importance of family, keeping kosher, and observing the Sabbath. Rachel explained how these traditions help guide daily life and bring people closer to their faith. The class were really engaged and asked some brilliant questions – from what Hanukkah is all about to how Jewish people celebrate Passover. It was a great opportunity to learn more about a different culture and everyone came away with a deeper understanding and lots to think about!
Year 5 - Flying High with Aspirations
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 4:27pm
Flying High with Aspirations: Our Aviation Zoom with Primary Futures ✈️
Last week, our children had the exciting opportunity to take part in a special Zoom session, set up in partnership with the amazing team at Primary Futures. The aim? To spark curiosity, raise aspirations, and open young eyes to the wide world of work — and what better theme to start with than aviation!
We were thrilled to be joined by two real-life pilots and an aerospace engineer, who each shared their fascinating career journeys, talked about what their day-to-day roles involve, and answered some very thoughtful (and sometimes very funny!) questions from our curious students.
The children were wide-eyed as they learned about flying commercial planes, navigating through challenging weather, and even helping design and maintain aircraft. It was an inspiring session that really brought home the message: you can be anything you want to be with passion, perseverance, and a love of learning.
We’re so grateful to Primary Futures and our guest speakers for helping our children dream big. We can't wait to see where their imaginations — and ambitions — will take them next!
Date: 16th Jun 2025 @ 6:54pm
This week, Year 1 had a very exciting visit from our local nurses, who came to talk to us about sun safety! We impressed the nurses with what we already knew and helped them tell a story about how to keep safe when the weather is warm.
Date: 16th Jun 2025 @ 6:10pm
Today, Year 1 were lucky enough to meet the ducklings that have recently hatched in Reception! As it was a nice day, we made the ducklings a little pool outside and spent some time observing them swimming, playing and asking questions to learn more about them.
Reception- The Three Little Pigs
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 2:29pm
This week Reception have been reading the story The Three Little Pigs. We retold the story, learnt new words and discussed why it is importatnt to work hard like the third little pig and not become lazy like the other two little pigs who quickly made their houses out of straw and sticks. Look at what else we did too!
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 2:23pm
Yesterday, Reception took part in Forest School. They had fun playing games, such as Twit and Whoo (hide and seek),helping each other look for wildlife , including minibeasts, and creating models of nature with playdough.
"I found a worm" Evan.
"I made a playdough fish" Freya C.
"Bees go on flowers and drink the sugar in them" Freyja.
Take a look at our photos!
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 1:38pm
This week we had a very special delivery in Reception. Some duck eggs arrived on Monday in an incubator. The children were very excited to observe the egg and were lucky enough to watch them hatch. We now have four ducklings; Sonny, Sophia, Mr Duck and Donald. The children have had the opportunity to hold the ducklings, watch them swimming in the water trays and even feed and clean our thei cage with adult support. We look forward to learning more about them and thei lifecycle next week.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 8:25am
We have some new arrivals in school this week. On Monday , we had a delivery of eggs and an incubater. On Tuesday Acorns went to visit the eggs and noticed some were cracked and one was moving, with a beak peeping out. We were excited to see some duckling hatching.
Omer "chicks"
We were even more excited to see one of the ducks that had already hatch and touch their soft fur. We will be visiting the ducklings regularly over the next couple of weeks and watching how they grow.
Date: 10th Jun 2025 @ 3:38pm
This week our Skills for life theme is innovation. Today, in PSHE we used our creativity to design our own educational board game. We chose a topic and made dice, question cards and designed it how we wanted. We also thought about all the subjects where we have to be innovative to help us in all areas of the curriculum.
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
