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Spring 1 Topic Overview 2019/2020
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 9:18am
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Spring 1 Topic Overview 2019/2020
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 9:14am
Spring 1 Topic Overview 2019/2020
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 9:11am
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 9:19am
Children worked collaboratively to reproduce 'George Seurat's famous painting called "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". Children used pointillism to recreate Seurat's style of painting. They were able to create depth and texture using contrasting colours. Children also looked at pointillism artwork by other artists and discussed the 7 elements of art.
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 9:09am
Date: 9th Jan 2020 @ 9:13am
This half term, we are looking at Animals including Humans in Science. We will be concentrating on our insides and how important it is to eat a healthy, nutritious and balanced diet. For our WOW we used salt dough and mirrors to recreate our own teeth! This was a sticky but fun activity which helped us understand the different types of teeth and their jobs. We also looked at pictures of animal skeletons and using art straws to recreate them on black card. It was so much fun to look at all the different bones!
Date: 8th Jan 2020 @ 3:23pm
New year and a new opportunity for the mini-cadets to meet the mounted police. The children learnt all about the role of the mounted police, how they work and how they are looked after.
Date: 7th Jan 2020 @ 3:59pm
To introduce our new music based topic, Top of the Pops, the children worked collaboratively and took part in an interactive music quiz. The questions ranged from the 1960s all the way to the present day. Great fun was had and there were some impressive scores! We will be focusing on Motown, Rock and Hip Hop in future music lessons.
Date: 15th Nov 2019 @ 3:32pm
We showed some fantastic teamwork this afternoon... we put the target boards ready for our Archery PE lesson.
Date: 10th Jan 2020 @ 1:49pm
This morning, we began our topic on Evolution with a lesson on understanding evolution in finches. We learned about Darwin and his travels on the HMS Beagle, which took him to the Galapagos Islands.Here, he studied the differences between finches on a range of different islands and came to the conclusion that different finches needed a different beak to eat the range of seeds/insects available on each island. To understand this, we took part in a task that required us to ‘be a bird’ and ‘eat’ seeds. We either had a fork, spoon, pair of tweezers or a peg and had to gather as many items off the desks as possible. There were 7 islands with 7 different ‘seeds’. These were: skittles, rice, pasta, marbles, counters, cubes and peas. We found that some items were easy to pick up with our ‘beaks’ and others were very tricky. This helped us to understand how different finches had evolved to survive on each island.
We also took part in an activity called 'Talking Telephones'. This involved sending a message around the circle by whispering it to the person next to us and seeing where changes in the message occurred. We then linked this to mutations with DNA through time, which helped us to understand how mutations lead to evolution.
Spring 1 Topic Overview 2019/2020
Date: 7th Jan 2020 @ 9:13am
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 2:28pm
We took part in our second Forest School session this week, and it was possibly even more enjoyable than our first! Although this time it wasn't raining, the ground was still wet and muddy with the previous days rain! We joined with Reception in the woodland area for both our morning and afternoon sessions. This week we started the session by using 'Fire Steels' to try and make 'sparkles!' This took great deal of motor skill development and perseverance! We each had a turn to try and make 'sparkles,' some of us independently, some of us with a little help! Our Forest School teacher then showed us how to use the tools we had to make sparks to set some cotton wool on fire. We talked about how we need to keep safe around fire. Once the fire was lit in the fire pit, we then each had a turn at cooking a marshmallow! Again, with help from the adults, each of us had the opportunity to poke a marshmallow onto a wooden stick, then move over to the fire to toast it! We then blew on the marshmallow 10 times, to ensure it was cool enough to eat, before we enjoyed them! We then read a story together, about different animals bottoms! Exploring the woodland area, we then matched poems and pictures to the different animals they could belong to. We all enjoyed another successful Forest School session!
Date: 12th Dec 2019 @ 10:25am
Today our grown ups joined us in Nursery for our Christmas Stay & Play. Buddy the elf had left us lots of activities to do with our families! Buddy asked us to make Reindeer food, melted snowmen biscuits and Rudolf decorations! To make the reindeer food we mixed oats and special glitter into a tiny bag with a special message inside! We had to be very careful to use a small scoop so we didn't spill any of the food! After our snack we then made our biscuits. First we made some white icing, which we spread onto our biscuit. We then added a marshmallow for our snowman's head, and used icing pens to create its features. We made our Rudolf decorations at our creative table, we used circles of card, small branches we collected, and red pom poms! Our grown up also played with us in the Play Dough, sand and writing areas. We all had a great time and enjoyed our grown ups joining us in Nursery!
Date: 12th Dec 2019 @ 11:59am
We enjoyed our Christmas Disco this week! We came into Nursery with our party clothes packed into bags, we were very excited! We spent the afternoon in Nursery doing lots of Christmas activities before it was time to get changed into our party clothes! We walked through school and into the hall where our Disco had started! Lights were flashing and music was playing! We had lots of room to eat, dance and play! We enjoyed hotdogs for our tea, played pass the parcel, and had a good old dance!
Date: 17th Dec 2019 @ 2:44pm
On Tuesday this week Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 performed their Nativity play in front of parents and carers. Reception performed 'The Wriggly Nativity' and Year 1 and Year 2 performed 'Miracle in Town'. Congratulations to our incredibly talented, confident and enthusiastic children who entertained us all with their singing, dancing and acting.
Date: 19th Dec 2019 @ 9:55am
What a fantastic day we had at our Christmas party! We came to school in our favourite party clothes ready for an exciting festive, fun packed day. We started off by playing party games in the hall, best dancer, musical statues and musical bumps - there were lots of winners and great dancers too. Just as we were about leave the hall to go back to class, the hall door opened and in walked SANTA!!!!! We were all very excited. He came in and sat down with a large sack full of presents. One at a time he called our names and gave us a present. We know Santa is extremely busy at this time of year so we were very lucky to see him. Finally we went back to class to continue our party, we had party food and we played a game of pass the parcel.
Nursery Christmas Sing A Long!
Date: 19th Dec 2019 @ 9:01am
This week we invited our grown ups and families in to Nursery to join in with our Christmas Sing A Long! We have been practising our songs in Nursery throughout December and it has been part of our BLT for the past couple of weeks to share these songs with our grown ups at home. It was a cold afternoon but we all wrapped up warm and gathered underneath the tree in our Nursery garden. We had been decorating lanterns to carry whilst we were singing and we all carried them with a LED tea light in to guide us back to Nursery when it got a little bit dark! We were really lucky to have lots of our grown ups and siblings come to join in our Sing A Long, thank you all for coming on the day and for helping us all to learn the words beforehand!
Date: 17th Dec 2019 @ 8:37pm
Year 5 have been learning about the Christmas story and its importance in Christianity. We created story boards, including pictures, and then used our computing skills to create Google Slides presentations.
Date: 17th Dec 2019 @ 2:21pm
This half term we have been looking at mountains and volcanoes in Geography. To link this to art, we decided to draw a volcano and paint/colour it in the style of Andy Warhol. We looked at a range of his pieces of art and discussed what was similar about them all. This included his strong lines and use of vibrant block colour. We were given the freedom to draw our volcano in any style we wanted, just so long as we used his strong lines and bold colours. We think our end products were great!
Date: 11th Dec 2019 @ 5:35pm
The mini-cadets visited the Head Quarters this week and worked with the Lancashire Constabulary TacOps team! They learnt all about the how the team keep the roads safe and running smoothly and how they deal with road traffic accidents.
Date: 6th Dec 2019 @ 8:09pm
Nursery enjoyed our first Forest School session this week! We had very different weather for our morning and afternoon sessions, however the sessions were enjoyed equally by all children! Firstly we got ready into our waterproofs, talking about what we thought might be in store for us! We were very excited to leave the Nursery environment and venture into the Forest School area. We started off the session by exploring the environment, ensuring we all followed the rules to keep each other safe! We then searched around the area to find items of interest to start the outdoor Christmas Tree. Being especially careful, we were then taught how to use the hammer and nails, and we all took turns to hammer the items we had found onto the wooden branches. Some of our children were especially interested in a 'well' in the ground, which they decided housed 'poisonous worms!' We are all looking forward to our next Forest School session!
Date: 10th Dec 2019 @ 8:28pm
Today we began our Christmas celebrations by attending our annual Christmas pantomime at Blackpool Sixth Form College. This year's panto was the Grinch and it was absolutely brilliant. It was very funny and the girl who played the Grinch was utterly brilliant!!
Date: 10th Dec 2019 @ 6:02pm
It was a wet and windy day, but that didn't stop us from enjoying our trip. We followed the course of the River Wyre stopping at various points along the way. The children were able to identify features they had learned about during our geography lessons in school including meanders, erosion, deposition and flood plains. Our last stop was Fleetwood where we observed the mouth of the River Wyre, flowing into the Irish Sea.
Date: 9th Dec 2019 @ 1:05pm
It was a little bit chilly but the rain held off as Year 3 began their journey to the Christmas Panto! KS2 had the wonderful opportunity to watch Blackpool Sixth Form in their interpretation of the Grinch at Christmas. Well done to all the students who took part! We had a fantastic time.
