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Year 2- Character Descriptions
Date: 17th May 2024 @ 7:50am
This week, Year Two were lucky to have a visit from author Dan Worsley. We began the morning by participating in a storytelling assembly where Dan kindly shared one of his stories with us before he came to visit our classroom and delivered a descriptive writing workshop with us. As part of our Reading into Writing unit, Twisted Fairytales, we picked a character from famous fairytale and created our own evil troll that we could use in our final write. Some of us were lucky and got to put on Dan's storytelling waistcoat to share some of our descriptive sentences. Thank you to Dan for coming in, we all really enjoyed the workshop and it has inspired us to write some incredible twisted fairytales.
Reception- PE- Castles, Knights and Dragons.
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 3:03pm
This week Reception have been continuing to have lots of fun in PE.
Mr Humble had them learning the fundamental skills of catching, throwing, running and listening through an imaginary world of castles, dragons and knights.
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 3:00pm
In History, we looked at VE day. We studied various sources to see what VE day celebrations were really like and we looked at similarities and differences between the celebrations and discussed in teams whether they were reliable sources or not. We also looked at why VE day was not such a happy time for everyone!
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 12:24pm
We have completed our poetry journey, where we have been learning about cinquain poems. After, planning, drafting, editing and writing, pupils published their poem using google docs. We have been using our digital literacy skills in other areas of the curriculum - not just in Computing lessons.
Reception The Lifecycle of a Butterfly
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 9:47am
Over the last few weeks the children in Reception have been observing our classroom caterpillars grow and change. We have been learning about the different stages in the lifecycle including; the butterfly laying an egg on a leaf, the caterpillar hatching a eating lots of food, the caterpillar making a chrysalis and finally transorming into a butterfly. The children have sequenced the lifecycle and written sentences about what is happening. The children were meserised when eight beautiful butterflies emeged from the chrysalis.
"The caterpillar hatches out of an egg" Summer S
"It eats leave and vegetables and grows bigger" Neveah
"It's called a larvae" Sid
""It sheds it skin when it gets bigger" Levi
"It makes a cucoon, so it can grow its wings inside" Niko
"The butterfly comes out of the cucoon" Thomas
Date: 16th May 2024 @ 7:55am
Today Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic assembly with Dan. We were all throughly engaged with Dans story about Dave the horse, who had some very interesting powers! We all listened and participated extremely well and Dans assembly inspired lots of us to want to tell our own stories about Dave!
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 7:42pm
Over the past couple of weeks, Year 4 have been learning about what data logging is. We discussed that data is information that is collected to analyse something and that we use data loggers to do this. Then, we walked around the school and recorded the temperature of the school and then analysed the results. We have also discussed some of the challenges we may have when collecting data in a range of environments.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 7:19pm
Over the past couple of weeks, Year 4 have listened, appraised and practised to sing 'Oh Happy Day.' Firstly, we listened to the song and then compared it to the version that was sung in the film 'Sister Act.' Then, we split into two groups and learnt to sing the song.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 4:40pm
This half term, Year Two have been exploring algorithms and how to programme floor robots. So far we have looked at making predictions as to what the outcome will be of an algorithm before designing our own mats and this week creating an algorithm to get the robot from one square to another avoiding the obsticals we also placed down.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 4:27pm
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. Again, we discussed how these are used as a way of showing respect to the different roles of God.
Year 4 - Relationship between energy and volume
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 2:46pm
Today we did lots of different experiments to find the relationship between energy and volume. We discovered that the more energy the louder the volume.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 2:44pm
Today we continued our 'En Classe' unit in French. But today we focused on our speaking skills and how to say when we DO NOT have certain items.
Date: 13th May 2024 @ 5:15pm
All of the pupils in year 5 had a great experience at Blackpool's Grand Theatre watching the amazing new show, The Boy at the Back of the Class; based on the book by
“All of the acting was brilliant.”
“My favourite part was when Ahmet had eyes like a lion.”
“I liked the unexpected turn of events.”
“I loved it when Mr Irons was fired.”
“It was clever how they showed Alexa and Tom travelling around London by train and taxi.”
Date: 13th May 2024 @ 4:23pm
What a great morning we have had with Krishna our Hindu visitor. Firstly, we had a whole school assembly where we recapped the story of Diwali and were introduced to the characters. When we returned to class we recap what we had learnt so far this year about different religions including a 'flash back' to our work on Divali.
"It is the festival of light' Esmai
"They have diva lamps in the windows' Mathew
'They wear bright clothes and have a special meal with their family" Sid
"It is the festival of Light" Levi
Date: 13th May 2024 @ 4:21pm
In Maths, the children have been using practical resources to help support tell the time. The children have enjoyed finding o’clock, quarter past, quarter to, half past. The children have also told time in minutes, and counting in 5 minutes intervals.
Date: 13th May 2024 @ 4:15pm
The children in Year 3 have enjoyed going to Forest School in the sunshine! The children loved building dens using their rope skills. They also worked on practical skills such as using choppers and peelers to make flags. Some children enjoyed filling the ponds for the tadpoles.
Acorns - Ben plants a Butterfly Garden
Date: 12th May 2024 @ 6:25pm
This week Acorns have been exploring the story Ben plants a Butterfly Garden.
We are continuing to develop our understanding of the butterfly life cycle.
We have enjoyed a variety of sensory tuff tray experiences as well as the sensory story.
We have also noticed the change in our caterpillars, which a now chrysalis.
We have engaged well in lots of different literacy and numeracy activities, developing our overwriting skills and number knowledge. We are continuing to develop our engagement in adult-led activities alongside our peers.
What a busy week.
Date: 12th May 2024 @ 5:48pm
Acorns have been listening to our adults talk about new life spring brings and this week we went on a spring walk.
Acorns had lots of fun exploring our forest school area and looking at all the different flora and fauna around us.
We enjoyed using visuals to find different plants and tick them of our checklist.
Acorns were excited to see tadpoles from our little pond and enjoyed watching them swim in the bucket.
We are curious to see what they grow up to become and are looking forward to learn about their life cycle next term.
We were excited to spot some butterflies and collected some natural materials to create our very own natural art butterflies after learning about the butterfly lifecycle this term.
Reception- The very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 12:16pm
We have been reading the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
It is about a very hungry caterpillar that consumes a variety of foods before making a cocoon and becoming a butterfly.
We have had lots of fun retelling the story with our friends using stick puppets, painting a caterpillar, creating our own caterpillar using art resources and making a paper plate butterfly.
Finally, we wrote about our favourite part of the story.
Take a look at our photos!
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 11:34am
After working so hard all week revising for SATs, we had a relaxing yoga session to calm our minds before the weekend. We practised all the poses that we had learned, including the downward dog and childs pose before putting them together in a routine.
Date: 10th May 2024 @ 7:54am
Yesterday, Year Two welcomed Matt from from Hope Community Church who came to talk to us as part of our current RE unit- Christianity The Church exploring the key question 'What unites the Christian community?' Matt discussed the symbols of Christianity with us before discussing different items found in a church and the uses they have, he also taught us why Christians come together on a Sunday to pray, sing and read stories from the Bible. Lastly, he talked about baptism and allowed some of us to perfrom a baptism as well as sharing bread and juice with those who wished to take part.
Date: 9th May 2024 @ 11:03pm
This week we have been reading "Nornan the Slug with the Silly Shell" by Sue Hendra. In the story, Norman the slug meets some snails and loves their shells! We looked closey at the spiral pattern you find on shells and then made our own jammy spiral pastries!
Date: 9th May 2024 @ 10:40pm
Wednesday is Dance Studio day! During our time in the dance studio we practise our Squiggle While You Wiggle moves using pencils and paper and use the parachute. There are so many ways to use the parachute to support the childrens developement. We have been singing songs and moving with the parachute to add actions to the songs. We also play games that develop the children's listening and attention and support their social communication skills.
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 6:46pm
Today we learnt the differences between bulbs and seeds. We learnt that a seed is part of a plant that a new plant grows from and they can be all different shapes and sizes! We then learnt that a bulb is also a part of some plants that can be found underground, storing food for the plant, ready for when it grows. We then completed a bulbs and seeds sort, looked at examples of bulbs and seeds and made observational drawings of bulbs and seeds.
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 4:44pm
Today, the pupils in year 5 were given some excellent guidence about writing poems, and becoming a writer after their school days have ended. Blackpool poet, Nathan Parker visited us and shared his knowledge and experience. He guided the children to write a collaborative poem, which we also performed as a class. All of the pupils were engaged with the activity and contributed their ideas to the final poem.
