As part of Health Week, our class explored the inspiring journey of an England Lioness, learning about her achievements both on and off the pitch. We discovered how her dedication, resilience, and healthy lifestyle contributed to her success in women's football. Through this lesson, we gained a deeper understanding of the importance of physical and mental wellbeing in reaching personal goals. The session also highlighted the value of teamwork, perseverance, and having strong role models in sport, encouraging us to lead active, healthy lives ourselves.
Physical Education: Blog items
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 3:42pm
This week we've had health week. Today, we enjoyed a scooter workshop focusing on balance and even managed to do some scooter skills. This afternoon, we looked at the life of a famous lioness, Lauren Hemp looking at what she has achieved so far in her career and how she got there.
Date: 26th Jun 2025 @ 12:31pm
As part of health week, we thoroughy enjoyed a scooter workshop with Elanor! Firstly, we prepared ourselves by putting on our knee pads and helmets. We listened carefully to how to ride the scooters and even learnt some new tricks!
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:57pm
Years 5 and 6 had a great hour talking to the Coastguard volunteers. We learned how to stay safe around water and how to look for dangers. We also learned that in an emergency on the beach or in the sea, you should never put yourself in danger and always call 999.
Date: 25th Jun 2025 @ 3:56pm
We had a great session today with Josie from Glow Sports. We were split into 4 teams and played a variety of games: basketball, football, hockey and dodgeball. The lights went down and the place lit up!! We've never done sports in the dark before - what a treat!
Date: 23rd Jun 2025 @ 6:45pm
The children and staff in Year 5 were excited to kick off Health Week with our first big event—inflatable football! It was a fantastic way to get everyone moving and having fun right from the start. The energy was high, and the children threw themselves into the challenge (sometimes quite literally!). For those who preferred something a bit different, archery offered a great alternative, and it was lovely to see how focused and engaged they were. Overall, it was a brilliant start to the week, and we’re looking forward to what’s next!
Nursery and their Excellent Fine Motor Skills
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 2:47pm
This week the children have been developeing their fine motor skills with activtiies link to the story "Handa'a Surprise". The chidlren have weaved baskets, made pineapples and cut them out and squeezed fruit to create some juice.
Nursery New and Improved Mud Kitchen
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 2:43pm
Our mud kitchen has recently recieved a make over! We have made it bigger, added a water butt so the chidlren can collect their own water and added some new pots, pans and tools. The children are also able use the
herbs that are avalaible in the near by garden. It has been lovely to watch the chidlren working togther to create their own recipes - we have had brocolli, soup and hot chocolate!
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 5:19pm
This week in PE we played some games to develop our teamwork and listening skills. We focused on our spacial awareness and reaction to others movements aswell as developing our own tactics and sportsmanship skills.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 7:48am
This half term, Year Two have been doing Gymnastics. We have explored how to create a range of shapes including: pike, tuck, straddle and star as well as practicing our rolling techniques to accurately complete a teddy bear roll, egg roll and log roll. We have used these skills to try and create a short sequence and performed them to our peers.
Date: 12th May 2025 @ 1:54pm
This half term, we have Fit 2 Go from Blackpool FC Community Trust in supporting us with our healthy lifestyle and fitness learning. This week, we look at the names and functions of some of our bones and muscles, then we looked at how the blood pumps around our bodies. We even counted our own pulse.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 8:57am
In PE this week, children in year 5 have been doing gymnastics. In this lesson we talked about what is meant by 'excellent gymnastics' and how to land safely when performing jumps. The pupils then practised straight, pike and straddle jumps before learning to perform a stag jump.
Photos by LT (Hawthorn)
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 @ 8:24pm
Nursery have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. One day they came to Nursery to find a giant caterpillar made out of spaghetti! There was only one thing to do - trim that caterpillar! The children were able to develop their fine motor skills and practise their scissor skills. The caterpillar was unrecognisable by the end!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:00am
Year Two completed their dance unit to the song 'I just can't wait to be king.' We explored how to show emotions through our dances and expressions. We loved dancing to the song and working together to try and piece a dance together.
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 12:27pm
This half term, we have been exploring balance, coordination and sequences of movement through gymnastics. We have developed individual movements aswell as working with others to create sequences in unison.
Date: 6th Apr 2025 @ 2:59pm
Acorns have been developing their climbing and balancing skills this term and exploring the different ways our bodies can move.
We have enjoyed balancing along the benches, moving forwards, sideways and backwards, as well as crawling and pulling ourselves along. We have practiced jumping off the benches from different heights and climbing on and off safely.
Acorns have also enjoyed exploring sausage rolls and forward rolls with the support of the large yoga ball. We also use our PE sessions to develop our turn taking and waiting skills during these activities.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:16am
In our dance lesson today, we explored how light plays a huge role in creating reflections and shadows. Have you ever noticed how shadows change shape when we move? It’s almost like they’re dancing with us! We started by pretending to be a warm, beams of light, as we travelled in straight lines around the hall. Then, we switched gears and partnered up do be eachothers' shadow where we had to copy the movements. Remember, light can transform everything around us, and dancing helps us understand these amazing science concepts. Let's keep experimenting with our movements!
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 3:06pm
This week we have been reading the story "Poo in the Zoo". The chidlren came to school to discover a big lump of elephant poo in the tuff tray! "Ewww! What's that?" they said. We discussed what it looked like and how it might of got there. We remembered that Miss Walsh had been to the zoo on Tuesday and maybe she had trodden in it or an elephant did a poo in her bag! The children explored the poo (wearing safety googles of course) and pulled bits out using tweezers. They found bits of food and a few stones! It was a great discussion point and encouraged lots of conversation.
(Disclaimer - it wasn't real elephant poo!)
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 2:57pm
This week Mrs Welch was treated to a delicious Shepherd's Pie made in the mud kitchen. One child led the play and started off cutting the carrots to go in the pie. He then added mud and sand and another child said "I will go and get you some water". They came back with a jug of water which they added to the pie. This was then mixed together. The children showed the pie to Mrs Welch but she was firmly told "Don't eat it yet! It's hot!". When it had cooled down, the pie was given to Mrs Welch to enjoy. She ate every last bit and said it was the best Shepherd's Pie she had ever tasted.
Year 4 - Egyptian dance sequence
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 8:50am
This week, we used all our learning so far to start to put together a dance sequence. We thought about gods/goddesses, hieroglyphics, making the pyramids and what all those things mean. We created a mind map of ideas on the board, then started putting our sequences together.
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 9:12am
This half term, Year 4 have been focusing on dance in PE. We have explored and created characters and narratives in response to a range of stimuli. We have used body movements to represent Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, composed short sequences with partners and used unison and mirror techniques.
The children have been interested to further develop their knowledge of the Egyptians in PE incorporating two of their favourite subjects!
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 7:39am
We were all very excited for our new trim trail to open! This week we have been practising how to use each section of the trim trail, ensuring we keep ourselves and others safe. We showed lots of determination to try and get as far round the sections as we could!
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 4:41pm
Nursery had a brilliant time on the Balance Bikes. They learnt all about taking care of the bikes and how to check the tyres. They then crusied their way aroind the hall balancing perfectly on the bikes!
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 11:26am
Today we enjoyed celebrating our 100th day at school! We began our day with learning about our theme for the day, before completing lots of different 100 related activities. We practised subtracting with jelly beans, did 100 warm up activities in PE, created 100 monsters and counted different objects up to 100!
