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Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 4:37pm
To commemorate Armistice Day this year, pupils in year 4 have created a watercolour landscape of poppy flowers. Pupils used a variety of painting skills such as 'wet on wet' and 'wet on dry' to create background and foreground. They also used the end of the brush to create lines and shapes in the paint.
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 10:56am
Today the fire service came to visit us. They recapped on fire safety, which they delivered to us when we were in Year 2. The main theme of today's visit was road safety. Now that we are more independent and the nights are darker, we discussed how important road safety is, including waiting at kerbs, wearing more visible colours and not using phones/headphones when walking.
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 7:58am
In Art, Year 2 have been exploring expressive drawing linking it to our Remembrance service. We did observational drawing of poppies thinking about the shapes and shadows we could see.
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 3:53pm
Children in Year 6 have been looking at Remembrance and have learnt more about why the Poppy is a symbol of remembrance. We sketched poppies and coloured them in with pencil crayons. The children have also been busy making poppies that have the name of a soldier that they will keep in their thoughts when they plant them during our whole school act of remembrance on Tuesday 11th November.
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 10:37am
Gardening club have been busy preparing the school for Winter.
They have been harvesting the pears from the pear tree,weeding, tidying up rubbish and planting Spring bulbs around school.
Reception Becoming a Firefighter
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 10:29am
As part of our learning this week we have been finding out about the role of a firefigher within our community. We talked about the importance of this job and how firefighters help keep people in the community safe.
"They wear a special uniform to keep them safe from fire" Ava
"They help people get out of fires" Joseph
"The have a big ladder on their truck to help people who are stuck" Lockie
"If a car crashes they help people get out" Reggie
We also discussed their role on bonfire night and emphasised the importance of keeping ourselves safe during these exciting events.
The children were introduced to a range of different vocabularly and practised building sentences orally. They then enjoyed going outside into the outside area and becoming a firefighter. They responded to emergencies from 999 phone calls, drove their fire trucks and even put out fire using their hoses.
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 10:22am
This week in Reception we have been talking about different traditions and celebrations. We focused on Halloween and Bonfire Night- discussing how did people celebrate with their friends and families. The children enjoyed discussingtheir family traditions explaining which celebration their prefered and why.
"I like bonfire night because you eat toffee aples" Noah
"I prefer halloween because I like going treat or trating and having parties" Lockie
"Halloween is fin because you dress you" Shiloh
The children emersed themselves in the different celebrations by taking part in a range of activities including carving pumpkins, making potions, collaging halloween theme pictures and even making their own bonfire night picture. Have a look at all the wonderful things we have been doing this week.
Reception- Blackpool Football Club
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 10:19am
Over the next half term, each week, Reception will be having a PE lesson with Blackpool Football Club. They will learn the fundamental skills of listening, moving in different ways, throwing and catching a ball. controlling a ball with their feet, taking turns and showing respect. We also learned the importance of warming up before exercising.
Take a look at how we moved around the hall as different animals, changing our speed and listening to the instructions.
"You have to warm up so your muscles don't get hurt" Zane
"I was a giraffe standing on my tip toes" Zara
"You have to stop when it is red!" Faith B
Date: 7th Nov 2025 @ 9:18am
Children in Year 5 have been looking at Remembrance and have learnt more about why the Poppy is a symbol of remembrance. They have then sketched poppies in a variety of styles and using a range of different techniques. Their final piece will be sketched onto battle field maps, flight plans or plane diagrams from World War 1 and 2. The children have also been busy making poppies that have the name of a soldier that they will keep in their thoughts when they plant them during our whole school act of remembrance on Tuesday 11th November.
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 8:21pm
In our Oracy lesson to start this half term, we looked at Social and Emotional Working with others. We recapped how we show we’re listening and how to take turns appropriately by listening carefully but also responding using our ABC talk tactics. We looked at problems, such as being stranded on an island surrounded by wild animals and we discussed what our solution would be. The children organised themselves into talking trios to discuss these problems and then used the agree, build and challenge stem sentences to support their discussions as a whole group.
Nursery and Blackpool Football Club
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 8:13pm
Nursery are so excited that this half term they will be having a training session with Blackpool Football Club every Wednesday! This week we were learning how to dribble the ball using penguin feet and the side of their feet (big toe, little toe!) The children throughly enjoyed the session and can't wait to build our football skills!
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 8:12pm
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Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 5:43pm
This week, along with the rest of our school, Year 1 have taken part in a number of different activities to learn about Remembrance and why we wear poppies. We have created poppies using pastels, planted poppies as part of our Remembrance day service and written labels/sentences to share our understanding of Remembrance. We have all shown lots of respect when learning about this very important time.
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 4:03pm
In Redwoods we have been focusing on bonfire night and Diwali this week. We have learnt about this wonderful celebration and its importance within the Sikh and Hindu religion. Together we discussed how this compared to festivals and special times we celebrate. Working in pairs we read instructions on how to make a salt dough Diya lamp. Working tohgether we made the salt dough mixtures measuring the correct amount out before making our Diya lamp shape.
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 3:58pm
This week our class has been working hard in Maths and we are really proud of the progress we are making. We've been focusing on place value - unerstanding what each digit in a number really means. We have been exploring how numbers are made up of hundreds, tens and ones. Together we have been paritioning numbers in different ways to show their value. Workign with partners and in groups we have also been practcing how to find one more and less as well as ten more and less. To finish our place value week we focused on finding nad estimating where numbers belong on numberlines before comparing the value of numbers.
Nursery Get a Little Bit Spooky
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 2:51pm
Nursery got a little bit spooky this week as we celebrated Halloween. The children have been busy making potions, creating a witch using different shapes, making pumpkins out of playdough and practising their cutting skills by giving a witch a hair cut! They have also been exploring light and shadow by using halloween torches in the black out tent and helped some spiders to find all 8 of their missing legs! Its been a very spooky week!
Acorns - Road safety experience
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 10:53am
As part of our topic, people who help us, we have had a visit from Zoe, our school crossing patrol officer. The children enjoyed meeting her in class and looking at looking at her lollipop stick, gloves and woolly hat.
We sang a song about crossing the road safely and looked at lots of visuals to support our experience and understanding.
We went into the car park and found the zebra crossing, listened to an adult as we said "Stop, look and listen". We looked left and right for cars before crossing the zebra crossing safely. We then saw Zoe and when she was in the middle of the road, it was safe to cross.
Well done, Acorns
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 7:59am
This week we began our Yoga unit in PE. This involved beginning the session with a full body scan and relaxing our bodies. We then began recapping on all of the yuga moves previously taught over the years. This included the following poses: cobra, downward-facing dog, tree, mountain, butterfly etc.
Date: 5th Nov 2025 @ 10:29am
This week, we started our unit on Area. During our first lesson, we used post-it notes to show that using the same number of post-it notes gives us a rectilinear shape with the same area no matter their positioning because we used the same four squares.
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 4:00pm
Today, we learnt about fact families. We used counters and split the whole into two parts using part-whole models and bar models. Once we completed the bar model and part-whole models we wrote the addition sentences to complete the fact family. We know that addition is commutative so we can swap the order of the two parts around and it still equals the same whole number. Also, we learnt that the whole can come at the start of a number sentence to complete the fact family.
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 3:53pm
To begin our half term our focus is Room on the Broom. Over the last two days, we have enjoyed reading the story and discussing the key parts, characters and settings. Yesterday, we sequenced the key events of the story and retold it using key vocabulary and today we focused on writing short captions for characters speech and labelling characters and objects from the story. Over the next week, we will enjoy exploring the areas including themed motor skills tasks, maths tasks and telling stories in our story telling area.
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 11:43am
In today's lesson we looked at subtracting across a ten. We thought first about what we could take away to reach the closest ten and then took away the remaining amount. The children then wrote down the subtractionsentences to explain what they have just done practically.
Year 4 - Teeth and their functions
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 10:10am
This week, we looked at the different names and functions our teeth have. We tried eating an apple using just our incisors, but it was super tricky because these teeth are for biting not chewing.
