: Blog items
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 12:27pm
This half term, we have been exploring balance, coordination and sequences of movement through gymnastics. We have developed individual movements aswell as working with others to create sequences in unison.
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 10:55am
This term during maths we have been exploring mass and capacity. We have enjoyed engaging in lots of hands on activities to explore the concepts of full and empty, hot and cold, big and small and heavy and light. We have enjoyed the practical activities with visual supports to support our learning and develop our understanding.
Date: 6th Apr 2025 @ 2:59pm
Acorns have been developing their climbing and balancing skills this term and exploring the different ways our bodies can move.
We have enjoyed balancing along the benches, moving forwards, sideways and backwards, as well as crawling and pulling ourselves along. We have practiced jumping off the benches from different heights and climbing on and off safely.
Acorns have also enjoyed exploring sausage rolls and forward rolls with the support of the large yoga ball. We also use our PE sessions to develop our turn taking and waiting skills during these activities.
Date: 6th Apr 2025 @ 2:41pm
Acorns have enjoyed their music sessions this term. We have used the weekly sessions to explore the recorder and xylophone.
We have loved creating our own music and developing our focus and concentration skills and learning to work in a small group adult led activity for extended periods.
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.
Year 1 Addition and Subtraction
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 10:42am
This week we have revisited addition and subtraction. We have practised adding and subtracting on number lines, by crossing out and using related facts to help our understanding.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 3:44pm
In this week’s Forest School lesson, pupils cooked on the campfire. They made gluten-free welsh cakes which were delicious, especially when eaten warm! Pupils also made clay models and built dens in the wild area. What a brilliant time in the spring sunshine!
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 12:14pm
This week, pupils in year 5 have had the chance to investigate a range of artefacts from Ancient Greece thanks to Lancashire County Council’s museum loan service. Pupils made observations of the objects and discussed what they were. The children sketched the artefacts and made notes about them from research and their own ideas. They also had the chance to dress up as a Greek hoplite and hold the weapons they would have used.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:16am
In our dance lesson today, we explored how light plays a huge role in creating reflections and shadows. Have you ever noticed how shadows change shape when we move? It’s almost like they’re dancing with us! We started by pretending to be a warm, beams of light, as we travelled in straight lines around the hall. Then, we switched gears and partnered up do be eachothers' shadow where we had to copy the movements. Remember, light can transform everything around us, and dancing helps us understand these amazing science concepts. Let's keep experimenting with our movements!
Year 3 and Year 4 - Police Horses
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:11am
Recently, we had a fantastic day meeting some very important members of our community—the police horses and officers from Lancashire Constabulary! It was so exciting to see these magnificent horses up close. The officers explained that police horses can be seen at big events, making sure everyone is happy and safe. They even showed us how the horses received their training! We learned that these brave animals and their human partners work together to protect us. What an incredible experience it was!
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am
On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!
Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 8:57pm
Acorns were excited to welcome their families into class for our Easter stay and play. We enjoyed hunting for eggs in the hay, decorating Easter eggs and trying to balance eggs on towers.
Acorns children enjoyed sharing an Eater Bucket time activity with their families and showing what all the excitement is about.
Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 5:00pm
The children were so excited to welcome their parents and carers in to nursery for our Easter Stay and Play. They made some Easter crafts together and iced an Easter biscuit. The children throughly enjoyed showing their favourite people around nursery and sharing with them what they do when they are at school.
Nursery and the Elephant Trunks
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 5:04pm
We have throughly enjoyed reading zoo stories over the past two weeks inlcuding "Poo in the Zoo" and "Dear Zoo". After exploring elephant poo, we decided to make our own elephants. Mrs Welch found a super idea using a party blower as the elephants trunk. The children spent time carefully collaging their elephants before being given the ultimate elephant trunk! The children had a wonderful time blowing the party blowers and pretending to be elephants. It was quiet tricky to get a sound out of the party blower and the children had to practise before managing to create a super loud sound! By the end of the day, Mrs Welch wasn't sure it was such a wonderful idea and went home with a headache!
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 3:44pm
We have begun to add different provisions and areas to our KS1 playground at lunch times. We are having so much fun playing all together.
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 11:56am
What a great half term of art for Year 4. We have been exploring a number of different mediums this half term all with a 'Feast' theme. We have made and painted clay foods and we have also created a communal picnic of foods.
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.
Reception Learn about the Lifecycle of a Frog.
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 9:22pm
During our spring walk the children noticed some frogspawn in our school pond. We took a small amount of frogspawn back to the classroom to observe what was happening. The children enjoyed using the magnifying glasses to look closely at the frogspawn and used a range of new vocabulary to desrcibe what they could see. During our oracy session we introduced some new vocabularly and practiced projecting our voices when saying the words. We looked at some different images and watch some short video clips and discusses as a class what we could see and what we thought was happening in the pictures. The children practised using the a range of different sentence starters and expanding their sentences using because. The children used our signals for agree, build and challenge to beging to have a discussion with their peers.
"I think the frog is laying its eggs" Lily-Mae
"I agree with Lilly-Mae. IT's calle frogspawn" Lilah
"Next the tadpoles nibble a hole and swim in the pond" Freyja
"They get front and back legs" Rosie
"It's called a froglet because it has a long tail" Dennis.
The children then worked indentedently to correctly order the pictures in the lifecycle and label the pictures with the correct vocabulary. Some of the children even chose to paint a picture of the frog in the pond. Come and have a look at our learning.
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 6:14pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed meeting two police horses! We began by watching the police officers get the horses ready by putting their bridles and saddles on. We then had lots of oppourtunity to ask questions to gain a better understanding of why police horses are important, when they are used and how they are looked after. We were also able to give them some commands which they followed to enable them to move forwards, backwards, left and right.
School Council- Opal Ideas For The Playground.
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 5:02pm
The School Council met with Mrs Webster to discuss the resources needed for outdoor play in KS1&2 playgrounds. They will discuss this with their class and a letter will go home to parents/ carers asking for donations.
The School Council also talked about the rules for outdoor play and decided that they will use a 'bee' logo, for example, 'bee safe'.
Reception Meet The Police Horses
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 4:48pm
This afternoon, Reception enjoyed a visit from The Blackpool Police Horses. The police officers explained that horses were used as they can see over fences and walls and can travel down narrow alleys and through parkland- places that police cars may struggle to go. They then demonstrated how the horses can go left, right, forward and backwards and turn in a circle.
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 4:04pm
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 12:03pm
This week children in year 5 have returned to the forest area. As they work towards their Forest School certificate, pupils used char-cloth to make a fire and made staues from clay. Pupils also helped to re-develop the pond area and found some tadpoles swimming around.
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 10:30am
Today we held our second Spelling Bee of the school year. 4 children were chosen from each group to represent their house and were given 3 spellings each. They have been learning these words over the last few weeks and we could all tell. The children did brilliantly and did themselves (and their house) proud. We are already looking forward to the final Spelling Bee in the Summer term.
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 3:06pm
This week we have been reading the story "Poo in the Zoo". The chidlren came to school to discover a big lump of elephant poo in the tuff tray! "Ewww! What's that?" they said. We discussed what it looked like and how it might of got there. We remembered that Miss Walsh had been to the zoo on Tuesday and maybe she had trodden in it or an elephant did a poo in her bag! The children explored the poo (wearing safety googles of course) and pulled bits out using tweezers. They found bits of food and a few stones! It was a great discussion point and encouraged lots of conversation.
(Disclaimer - it wasn't real elephant poo!)
