: Blog items
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 12:32pm
This week we have began to explore counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have looked at the patterns made on hundred squares to support our understanding, listened to lots of counting songs and completed different activities to develop our ability to count in 2s, 5s and 10s!
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.
Year 3- Year 3 Sikhism Online Visitor!
Date: 6th May 2025 @ 1:27pm
Today, we had an online session with a Sikh because in RE we are learning about Sikhism focusing on why are the Gurus important to Sikhs? Our online visitor showed us around the Gurdwara and taught us about his faith and explained why he commits himself to his faith. The tour around the Gurdwara allowed us to see and learn about what happens there and the importance of each room. This allowed us to learn about the importance of music within the religion, but also how it is a safe place for people and is used for events. He informed and showed us how the Guru Granth Sahib is treated and explained the importance of treating it with respect. We were able to ask him questions to link our understanding and learn more about Sikhism as he shared his experiences with us.
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.
Nursery and the Life Cycle of the Butterfly
Date: 5th May 2025 @ 3:57pm
Nursery have been reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and learning about the Life Cycle of a Butterfly. The children have been finding out about all the different stages and have been leanring some new vocabulary including metamorphsis! We were also very excited to get a special delivery of our very own caterpillars! They have already grown so much and we can't wait to watch them turn in to butterflies.
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: 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.
Year 3- What and where is the USA?
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:23am
In Geography today, we were looking at where and what is The United States of America. We firstly looked at odd one outs for humans and physical features of North America. We then looked at identifying some of the key flags and matching them to the correct country. After this we watched a short film about the USA and identify the human and physical features in this. For our final task we used the atlas to identify different states and the location of them on the map.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:20am
Throughout the half term, we are going to design and create our own healthy fruit smoothie. Today, we tried a variety of fruit smoothies that already exist as well as trying a variety of different fruits to find out which ones we liked or disliked. This will help us when designing our own smoothie as we have evaluated their taste, texture and appearance and thought about how this might change when blended. We are looking forward to creating our smoothies in the next few weeks!
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:18am
This week in our French lesson, we had so much fun exploring the story of Little Red Riding Hood! We learnt eight nouns related to the tale. We talked about “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge” (Little Red Riding Hood), the sneaky “loup” (wolf), and our lovely “grand-mère” (Grandma). We even met her “parents” and discovered her “maison” (house) in the magical “forêt” (forest). The brave “bûcheron” (woodcutter) was there too! And oh, let’s not forget the delicious “gâteaux” (cakes) that Little Red Riding Hood brought! It was very challenging but we gave it a good go - our favourite word was 'le loup'.
Year 2- Immersed in twisted fairytales
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:18am
This half term, we are exploring the genre of Twisted fairytales. Over the last few days, we have enjoyed reading a variety of fairytales with a twist on the original. We have been identifying how they are twisted from the original as well as some of the key features including characters, settings, adjectives and adverbs to inspire us for our own twist on a classic fairytale.
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
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: 1st May 2025 @ 8:13am
In today’s lesson, we recapped the Elements of Music PP, focusing on Tempo, tonality and instruments in the orchestra. Then, using the listening mats and stem sentences we listened and appraised - Train is A-Comin’.
Our focus questions were: How does it make you feel? What's the genre and style?
Where does this song fit with the world?
What time/era was the song made?
What’s the song about?
Instruments you can hear?
Afterwards, we discussed Harriet Tubman and started to learn to sing the song.
Reception Jack and the Beanstalk
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 8:57pm
This week the we have been reading 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. The children have been learning lots of different vocabularly and using that to describe what happens in the lifecycle of a bean. They have also been collaging beanstalks, using playdough to make their own beanstalks, building castle in the construction, completing maths activities and writing sentences about the story. Have a look at some of our learning.
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 8:50pm
This week we have been reading the fairytale story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. The children recieved a mysterious letter from Jack. He set the children a challenge to find out what a bean needs to grow tall and strong. Using our discussion guidelines the children discussed what what they though the beans would needs and why they though this. the children demonstrated superb listening skills and took turns speaking. The children then went outside to plant their own magic bean and will spent the next few weeks caring for them.
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 5:18pm
Today we looked at the use of Murti in Hindu worship. We learnt that Murtis are often colourful and bright and that Hindus give offerings to them. We then looked at lots of different examples of Murtis, including both Gods and Goddesses, and looked at why Hindus may worship them.We then chose a Murti to represent using salt dough, thinking about why Hindus may choose this Murti to worship.
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 1:28pm
During Lent, the Year 4 children took part in a special project focused on almsgiving, raising both awareness and money for charity. The children were split into three groups: fundraisers, creators, and speakers. The fundraising team decided to sell sweet cones, thoughtfully setting suggested donation prices and designing stickers to promote their efforts. The awareness group worked hard to create a post for the school website and designed colourful posters to raise awareness about deafness and the important work of the National Deaf Children’s Society. Meanwhile, the speakers group prepared an engaging presentation for an assembly as part of Deaf Awareness Week.
Through their teamwork, creativity, and dedication, the children successfully raised £150 for the charity from their after school tuck shop.
Date: 28th Apr 2025 @ 7:09pm
This week, we have revisited partitioning numbers in our maths lessons. We have completed lots of practical work to partition numbers into tens and ones, orally stating stem sentences to support our understanding.
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: 25th Apr 2025 @ 11:24am
This week Acorns enjoyed a visit from some tadpoles to class. We loved looking at them swimming around in their watery habitat. We have been exploring the life cycle of frogs through songs, learning activities and multi sensory experiences and stories..
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 @ 8:15pm
As part of a whole school Art Day, Nursery created some wonderful portraits inspired by the story The Dot. We listened to the story and talked about creating pieces of art from a simple mark on the paper. Each year group were given a different colour to work with and ours was pink. The children were all given a circle and asked to create a self-portrait on their dot. The results were outstanding!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 4:08pm
Today Year 6 took part in a pre-SATs Kooth workshop online. The aim of the event was to talk to children about how they felt going into the SATs and what strategies they could use to help them with any worries or anxities they were having about the tests. The children were also introduced to the Kooth website, which is a support platform for young people. Kooth is the UK's largest and longest established digital mental health service that partners with NHS and local authority organisations to deliver mental health support to young children. If children would like to create their own account then we encourage parents/carers to sit with their children and look through the website.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 12:56pm
What a fabulous day we had at Forest School today! Our Year 3 pupils were buzzing with excitement as they discovered some amazing things in nature. Did you know that you can actually eat every part of a dandelion? From the leaves in salads to the flowers in tea, these cheerful yellow flowers are more than just a weed!
The children began their adventure by exploring the forest school area. They got really creative and built dens using sticks and leaves—what a brilliant team effort! Over at the mud kitchen, they set up a quirky little café, selling ice cream and whipping up delicious pizza. Yum!
The pupils also took care of our plants, watering flowers and fruit bushes, helping them grow big and strong. They even added extra water to our pond, so it would flow into the second pond. Along the way, we spotted tiny tadpoles swimming about and even a couple of cheeky small frogs!
Finally, the children got their hands dirty digging in the ditch. Guess what they found? Shapes that looked just like dinosaur footprints! How exciting is that? We can't wait for our next forest adventure!
