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.
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Year 3 - When Year 3 met Jen Carney an author and illustrator
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 9:17am
Year 3 had an exciting and inspiring visit from author and illustrator Jen Carney, thanks to the National Literacy Trust. Jen is the brilliant mind behind The Day My School Got Famous and The Accidental Diary of B.U.G., and we were lucky enough to hear her read extracts from both books. Her stories were full of humour, creativity, and relatable characters — we were hooked!
As part of her visit, Jen also led us in a fun and imaginative drawing activity. We each chose a letter of the alphabet and had to think of the most obscure thing that began with it. Then we got creative and drew our own unique pictures based on that word. It was amazing to see how original and quirky our drawings turned out — just like Jen’s own illustrations!
We’re also very grateful to the National Literacy Trust, who gifted our year group 40 copies of Jen’s books! We’ve been enjoying them during our daily ‘Buzzing about Books’ time and can’t wait to read more.
A huge thank you to Jen Carney for inspiring us with her words, her artwork, and her enthusiasm for books!
Date: 8th Oct 2025 @ 1:13pm
This week, our genre focus has been a poem about Autumn. We used our oracy skills to perform the poem at the beginning of the week and then using Widgits and our inference skills we discussed and found out the meaning of difficuly vocabulary.
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 9:14am
This week we have begun our new writing journey of news articles. We have looked at a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) and pulled out the features of the genre. We then looked at a range of articles and text marked them with the features we discussed the day before. By the end of the unit we will have written an artcle about the excape of Harriet Tubman, which will link with our work on Black History Month.
Year 3 are Buzzing About Books
Date: 2nd Oct 2025 @ 9:13am
This week, Year 3 have been Buzzing About Books! We were excited to explore a fantastic selection of new books, taking time to look closely at the covers, blurbs, authors and illustrators. The children made thoughtful predictions about the stories and discussed what caught their interest. It was lovely to hear their enthusiasm as they shared which books they’d love to read and why. From funny titles to eye-catching illustrations, there was something for everyone! We can’t wait to dive into these stories over the coming weeks. Year 3 are definitely becoming book lovers!
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 2:27pm
We have been Reading "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen. The children are great at joining in with the rythm of the story and are starting to retell the story in the correct order. We went on our own bear hunt around school and found bears in all sorts of unusual places! We used lots of prepostion words to describe where the bears where including on, in and behind! We counted all the bears and found out that we had found 16 bears!
Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 4:58pm
The children are becoming very famialir with the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" and loved creating marks to represent parts of the story using differernt brush strokes. The children repeated words from the story as the made the marks "swishy swashy", "splash splosh", "squelch squerch", "stumble trip" "hoooo wooo".
Year 4 - Guided Reading and Oracy
Date: 16th Sep 2025 @ 4:00pm
As part of our weekly guided reading journey, pupils spent today's lesson reading sections of a non-chronological report. Having listened to the class teacher model how to read it clearly and with expression, pupils read it to themselves and then aloud to a partner to build their confidence. Some pupils were brave enough to read small sections to the class.
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 4:12pm
This week, Year 5 have been exploring a news report about the potential ban of energy drinks for under-16s. The children engaged in thoughtful discussions around the topic and examined key vocabulary from the text, including excessive, fluctuation, signalling, ban, and voluntarily.
To deepen their understanding, pupils answered comprehension questions, developing their ability to retrieve information and interpret meaning. They also worked in groups to perform sections of the news report in front of the class, building their confidence in public speaking and teamwork.
It has been a fantastic opportunity for the children to develop both their reading skills and their awareness of current health-related issues.
Acorns - All about me sensory story
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 1:43pm
Our sensory story is "All About Me". Acorns have had fun learning about their bodies through our sensory story. We have been developing our engagement through shared learning experiences and multi sensory exploration. Acorns have enjoyed looking at themselves in mirrors and pulling lots of funny faces, finding their eyes, ears and noses and exploring happy or sad.
Date: 4th Sep 2025 @ 12:33pm
Year 6 have begun the year with a tirp to one of Mrs. Hamilton's favourite places - the library. The have all picked new books and looking forward to a year of reading!
Date: 16th Jul 2025 @ 3:06pm
This half term, in reading into writing we have explored persuasive adverts and in Geography we have looked at hot and cold places. To link the two topics together, we wrote a persuasive advert to persuade someone to visit either the desert, rainforest or Antarctica- we even used the computers to create our hot write to make them look bright and colourful as well as improve our digital literacy skills.
Date: 9th Jul 2025 @ 2:54pm
Over the past few weeks, we have enjoyed the nice weather by spending time reading in our outdoor area. We have enjoyed reading some new stories and revisted some of the stories we have read throughout Year 1.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:23pm
This week Acorns have been reading "Oh! Dear" and learning about the life cycle of a duck. We have loved observing the ducks over the last two weeks, watching them hatch and grow.
We have also been exploring farm animals and the babies, developing our understanding of animal names, sounds, and what their young were called. We enjoyed matching objects to pictures and matching the adults to their young.
we made our own hatching ducks in art, getting messy and using our handprints for their wings. Wow! It's been a busy week. Enjoy looking.
Acorns - Sam plants a sunflower
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 2:58pm
Acorns have enjoyed listening and interacting with this weeks story "Sam plants a sunflower". We have used the story to continue to develop our learning in small group activities and sensory activities.
We loved planting our own sunflowers and learning how a plant grows. Especially the water spray!
In art, we developed our cutting skills, creating our own sunflowers.
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.
Acorns - The Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 8:02am
Acorns have enjoyed listening to the Hungry Caterpillar this week and engaging in a variety of multisensory activities to develop their understanding and engagement.
We have loved looking at our very own caterpillars and watching them grow bigger and bigger and learning about the butterfly life cycle.
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 10:18am
For no pen morning, we used our oracy skills in both Reading into Writing and Guided Reading. We are learning about poems on a theme in Reading into Writing and we had a poem about Spring in Guided Reading. In Reading into Writing, it was over to us! It was time for our shared write. We used our figurative language skills and typed a few verses ecah. Then we put them together as one poem and performed them.
Acorns - Walking through the Jungle
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:18pm
Acorns have loved exploring animals and their habitats this week. We have enjoyed multi sensory activities along with our story, Walking Through the Jungle, to support our learning, understanding and engagement.
We enjoyed exploring that people live in homes and different animals live in different places including jungles, oceans, mountains and deserts, but we all lived together on Earth.
Reception applying our phonics knowledge
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 9:41pm
Over the past few weeks the children have been busy applying their phonics knowledge to a range of different indpendent activities in the classroom. We have been practicing reading and writing our tricky words on sight to help our reading become more fluent. We have also been identifying diagraphs in words and segmenting and blanding them to read the and reading simple sentences including phase 3 diagraphs.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 10:48am
Acorns have been exploring the concept of space over the last two weeks. Our sensory story Whatever Next! follows a teddy bear who flies to the moon in a cardboard box for a picnic. We have had lots of fun trying on our space helmet and flying to the moon in our own box, developing our imaginations, engagement in group activities and taking turns with a rocket to play with.
We have been busy making space rockets and aliens during arts and crafts, counting backwards in maths as we blast into space and developing our focus and concentration with space themed 'Bucket' activities.
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 9:25am
This half term we have written a narrative story called 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'. We watched a short silent video based around the relationship between main characters: Rock, Paper, Scissors. We then had to write the story that went with the video. Have a read through some of our stories.
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 10:17pm
Nursery made a superb effort for World Book Day! We had Willy Wonka, but he forgot to bring his chocolate, Dorothy who had lost her way from the yellow brick road and Zog who was taking a break from his dragon training! We had a wonderful day sharing our favourite stoires, drawing book characters and making book marks.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 5:22pm
Year 4 celebrated World Book Day by talking part in a BBC Live Lesson. During the live lesson, children from around the UK were reading at the same time! The childremn discussed their favourite genres and places to read.
The class then read an information text about the benefits of reading and created an acrostic poem using the information gathered.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 4:32pm
We had an exciting and interesting World Book Day - we were visited by Princesses, witches and wizards, authors and many, many more. We talked about our favourite books, authors and books that had been made into films. We then took part in a fun quiz about our last class novel 'Kensuke's Kingdom' and then a special World Book Day quiz.
