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Making Changes - Healthy Lifestyle Family Workshop
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 11:28am
Some of our families have taken part in a 12 week Healthy Lifestyle course. The course involved a wide range of activities desgined to help families make healthy changes. The sessions focused on portion sizes, the Eatwell Plate, shopping on a budget, healthy packed lunches and the importance of sleep to name a few.
The families involved showed a great committment to making a change and they had lots of fun whilst doing it. Well done to them all!
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 11:14am
As the culminaton of our short journey looking at Christianity, we sketched, planned and finished a piece of topographical art linked to the Nativty. We used skills we have learnt in art and geography to create a nativity scene using a map of the Jerusalem and Bethlehem as a centre image.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 10:59am
Acorns have enjoyed learning about Christmas celebrations and the Nativity over the last few weeks.
Acorns have explored a variety of multisensory activities and experiences to develop their skills and understanding, including turn taking and social skills.
We have enjoyed a Christmas themed 'Bucket' to support our focus and concentration.
In art we have enjoyed recreating the Nativity scene and making Christmas ornaments to take home for our families.
We loved our singalong with our families during stay and play, and exploring signing during our singing.
A highlight was dancing during the Christmas party and a visit from Santa.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year.
Acorns team.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:26am
In Year 5 we have been using selection and conditions to code our own quizzes. We then had the opportunity to play each others quizzes, analysing and giving feedback to help us improve and debug.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:23am
During the first part of this term, Year 5 read Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. We really enjoyed learning about the characters, their emotions and what it takes to write a book that we were all so engaged with - it rapidly became a year group favourite; so much so that in the final part of Autumn 2 we watched the film! We then spent some time analysing the film versus the book, discussing how much had been left out (due to time) and hwo much more vivid the details were when we didn't rely on our imagination but were instead presented with a fully animated, living, breathing world right on the screen!
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:17am
Year 6 have produced some wonderful Christmas artwork this week based on the story of the nativity. We used watercolour paint to create stained glass effects.
Acorns - Christmas party and a visit from Santa
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:08am
Acorns enjoyed their Christmas party yesterday. We loved dancing and playing the freeze game. We had lots of fun playing passed the parcel.
acorns had a visit of Santa and were very inquisitive when meeting him. Everyone received a gift from Santa which they loved opening. What a wonderful we had in Acorns.
Nursery and the Hot Chocolate Station
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 1:11pm
Nursery had a wonderful time making Hot Chocolate at the tuff tray. They had to share and take turns, carefully scoop the ingreidents in to cups and talk to each other about what they were doing.
We then had a special treat of a real Hot Chocolate with cream and marshmallows!
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 1:05pm
Nursery held their annual Christmas Sing Along this week. We all gathered under the lit up tree and sang some beautiful Christmas songs. We were so proud of all the children and how well they sang.
Reception- Christmas Party Time!
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 12:09pm
Today it is our Christmas party!
We all came to school wearing our party clothes and had lots of fun playing games, dancing and eating party food. We took turns passing the parcel and were respectful when playing musical statues and musical bumps. Then, at the end of the party, Father Christmas gave us a surprise visit- bringing a present for every child!
Everyone had such fun!
Merry Christmas!
Year 1 PE with Blackpool Football Club
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 10:04am
We have been very lucky to work with Gaz from Blackpool Football Club this half term. He has helped us to develop our fundamental skills through lots of activities and games. We have had lots of fun!
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 9:57am
We were all very excited for our Christmas Party this afternoon! We enjoyed dancing, playing games and eating party food! We had lots of fun and are all very excited for Christmas!
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 9:52am
This week we completed some RE art to show an important event in the story – the birth of baby Jesus. We used pastels and black paper to create our own art work showing the stable, the manger, baby Jesus and other important characters in the story.
Year 3- Matching musical composers!
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 9:36am
In Music, we have been looking at the History of music. Over the past few weeks, the children have explored a different time period each week and looked at different composers from this time period. This week we looked at all the composers and put them in timeline order. We discussed key vocabulary from each time period and what music they composed.
Year 3- Creating musical instruments!
Date: 18th Dec 2024 @ 9:17am
In Computing, Year 3 have been using Scratch to create an algorithm. This algorithm created a musical instrument in which we programmed each note to play a different sound. We then played short rhythms and songs on this code.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 4:14pm
Today, we celebrated our Christmas party. We came in our fancy party clothes, enjoyed a drink of juice in the classroom, did lots of dancing, played some party games such as pin the nose on Rudolph and pass the parcel and EVEN got a very special visit from Father Christmas himself! We had a great time celebrating together and wish everyone a fantastic Christmas!
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 4:12pm
Today, we have created art based around Nativity. The children used watercolours to create a stained glass window effect. After, we reflected on the Nativity story and the true meaning behind Christmas for Christians.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 1:31pm
Linking into our R.E learning we looked at the Nativity story. In RE, We created a silhouette to show the nativity art scene using pastels, thinking about the characters and the setting.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 1:02pm
This half term we have been looking at architecture. We began our Art journey by exploring what architecture is and we looked at the work of Hunderwasser. We learnt that he liked bright, colourful buildings and would often use topsy turvy designs. We then designedour own buildings and chose a colour palette for our building. Over the last couple of days, we have been building, painting and decorating our houses ready to evaluate.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 8:51am
We absolutely loved using watercolours to create our RE Christmas Art this year. Our Art journey has been about telling a story through drawings using watercolours so we used these skills for our Christmas Art too.
Reception Nativity- Why do Christians celebrate Christmas?
Date: 16th Dec 2024 @ 12:02pm
Over the past few weeks the children in Reception have been learning about why Christians celebrate Christmas. The have been using the different figures at the storytelling table to retell the story in their own words. As part of their learning we have also be rehearsing our annual nativity; The Wriggly Nativity. The children have been working hard singing the songs, practricing their lines and perfroming on stage.
Reception- Christmas Jumpers and Christmas Dinner!
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 11:55am
The whole school celebrated Christmas Jumper Day by wearing their Christmas jumpers to school. In Reception, we also designed our own Christmas jumpers with bobbles and glitter and sequins!
At lunchtime, we all went to the hall, wearing our party hats, to eat Christmas lunch and celebrate the festive season. We pulled Christmas crackers, ate a traditional Christmas dinner and had a Christmas sprinkle sponge cake for dessert.
Take a look at our photos!
Reception busy in Santa's Workshop
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 11:42am
This week the children in Recpetion have been bust working in Santa's Workshop. They children have been busy writing letters, designing toys and wrapping presents ready for Chirstmas. The children have enjoyed roleplaying and making their own narratives.
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 11:22am
This week Acorns have been reading the Gingerbread Man.
We have had lots of fun using the characters from the story to tell the story.
Omer - "Swim, swim"
We have enjoyed making our own collage gingerbread man and baked our own gingerbread cookies.
Nursery and the Nativity Story
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 2:32pm
Nursery really enjoyed learning about the story of the first Christmas and where fascinated to hear all about baby Jesus. They were able to talk about Mary and Joseph and loved learning about the gifts the Three Wise Men brought for the baby. We used some props to tell the story and then watched a short cartoon. The children then used the Nativity set to retell the story with their friends.
