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Year 3- To grow or not to grow? That is the question!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 2:55pm
In Year 3, we have started our new Science topic of plants today and spent the lesson planning an experiment. We were planning how liquids can affect plant growth. The children set up pots with seed in and will measure over time the growth rate. In time we will see how coke, water, plant food, juice or no liquid will make the plants grow!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 2:47pm
In this lesson we started out new topic of World War Two. The children began by understanding where it fit into history by exploring timelines and ordered key events. We then went on to explore the key events that led up to the war happening. After that we discussed how Britain tried to appease Germany and considered the for and against arguments for appeasement.
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 12:18pm
This term, Nursery are going to be learning about growth and chnage, To start us off we have be been reading two stories "Sam Plants a Sunflower" and "Jasper's Beanstalk". In both stories the characters plant and a seed and take care of it until they grow big and storng. All the children planted a sunflower seed and now we have to take good care of them all so they can grow.
Nursery Get a Little Bit Muddy!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 11:30am
Nursery had a very muddy forest school experience! It was a very rainy day but that didn't stop us having lots of fun! We hunted for food for the Very Hungry Caterpillar, made a home home for a caterpillar and splashed and squelched in the muddy puddles!
Date: 10th Apr 2024 @ 3:38pm
Today we learnt how to measure in centimetres. We learnt how to line the 0 on the ruler with the edge of the object we were measuring and to read across the ruler to find the length of the object. We showed lots of determination to master accurate measing in centimetres.
Date: 10th Apr 2024 @ 8:57am
After spending time exploring a variety of existing shell structures, looked at creating nets and CAD, it was finally time to make our final products. We made our very own Easter themes boxes to hold a chocolate surprise. We had to carefully use a hot glue gun and measure accurately to ensure that they folded together correctly. We also used moulds to create different chocolate shapes to go inside, proving our designs were fit for purpose!
Year 4- Asking Yes/No Questions
Date: 9th Apr 2024 @ 6:34pm
This half term, Year 4 have started their new computing topic which is themed around collecting and presenting data. For our first lesson, we discussed the different between an open-ended question and a yes/no question. We then played a game where our partner picked an everyday classroom object and we had to guess what the object was using yes/no questions. Finally, we grouped objects based on their attributes such as their colour, size and material.
Date: 9th Apr 2024 @ 3:49pm
Today we started our South America unit in Geography and answer the key question Where is The Amazon? We used atlas to locate the countries of South America then located The Amazon rainforest and The Amazon River and the countries they are in.
Date: 9th Apr 2024 @ 3:44pm
Today, we planted sunflower seeds, broad beans and cress seeds so we can observe them over time and see how they grow and change. We are exploring what a bean needs to germinate, what conditions a sunflower need to grow and how sunlight affects the growth of cress. After we had planted them we made predictions as to what we think will happen and look forward to observing them over the next few weeks to see what happens.
Eco- Reception welcomes a new arrival
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 10:22pm
Before the Easter holidays, the children discovered a birds nest in our bushes in the outside area. They decided that they needed to be very quiet and not play near it so the eggs could hatch and the bird felt safe.
Today, we went to check if anything had happened and we could not believe that there were two baby birds huddled together in the nest. Once again, we need to stay away and keep quiet until the babies have flown the nest.
"Baby birds hatch out of eggs" Mathew.
"Birds live in a nest and keep their eggs in a nest" Lucy.
"Birds are scared of humans ...we must be quiet and not scare them" Esme.
School Council - New Reading Books
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 10:07pm
The school council met today to discuss what kind of books they like to read? Which authors do they like?
The school councillors brought the results of their class discussions and they had many great ideas. This included, the authors Julia Donaldson and Roald Dahl and books such as, Horrid Henry, fairytales, and non fiction books about the world and dinosaurs etc.
We will meet nearer the time to discuss the Summer Fair and how to organise the toy sale.
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 6:51pm
We began todays lesson by thinking about how many different homes we could think of and what types of homes people live in around the world. Together, we then looked at a number of different homes, talking about what kind of home it was, what shapes we could see in the home and what materials the home was made from. We then looked a number of different picture cards showing different types of homes. We read and orally answered a number of different question cards and identified which houses fit each question/description. We also went outside to observe the different types of homes we can see from our school environment, revisiting our local area knowledge from earlier in the year.
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 6:43pm
Today, we went on a ‘Sound Walk’ around school. Before we went, we discussed what areas of school might be loud and which might be quiet. We spoke about how there might not be areas around school which are silent because of outside factors such as the building works and vehicles.
When we returned from our walk, we spoke about HOW we hear sounds. Our teachers banged on drums with rice and we noticed that they moved. The banging of the drum caused vibrations!
Date: 8th Apr 2024 @ 4:04pm
Today, we began to explore what capacity meant and after predicting what we thought might be the capacity of different containers we measured it out using cups. We had to be careful we were filling the cup the same amount each time and carefully counted how many cups filled each container to its capacity.
Date: 2nd Apr 2024 @ 1:48pm
Today, Year 4 learnt about stages of embalming. We discussed how Egyptians tried to preserve the bodies to keep them as life-like as possible. We learnt that the organs of the person were removed before placing them in capopic jars. They then covered the bodies in a special type of salt and wrapped them in linen. Once we had discussed the process of embalming, we tried to remember the order of the key stages in our table groups. After this, we asked a set of instructions for an embalmer to use which outlined the stages that they must follow to carry out embalming process.
Reception The Easter Bunny visits Reception
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 3:02pm
On our final afternoon, before the Easter half term, Reception had a very special visit from the Easter Bunny. He had hidden lots if egg in our outside area. The children put on their Easter bonnets and bunny ears and enjoyed working together to find the eggs. What great fun we had!
Reception- Holly Trip To The Zoo.
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 2:40pm
On Tuesday Holly Class visited Blackpool Zoo. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny Spring day and everyone enjoyed visiting all the different animals and the habitats they live in. Some were hot, some were wet and some were very smelly!
We saw lions, tigers, zebras, monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, flamingoes, pelicans, farm animals, wolves, lemurs, parrots, camels, elephants and many more! We watched the sea lion show, and learnt a few interesting facts, and had an exciting classroom experience where we looked at parrot feathers, camel fur, a turtle shell, a huge elephant tooth and some of us were even brave enough to hold a cockroach!
"The camel fur was soft and tickly" Esme.
"The cockroach was tickly!" Lucy.
"What a huge tooth- it's so heavy I can't lift up properly!" Mathew.
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 11:35am
Over the past few weeks the children in Reception have been learning about why Christains celebrate Easter. We have listened to the Easter story and talked about the different events leading up to Jesus' crucification. We found out that Jesus was crucified on a cross on Good Friday . Then people took his body to a tomb but when his friends visited his body had gone. We talked about how Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead. As a class we discussed the different ways people including Christians celebrate Easter. To help us remember the importance of Easter we made our own cross on a hill.
"Jesus died at Easter" Oliver
"He came backnto life and went to be with God" Isabelle.
"I go to church with my family" Sid
"My mummy and daddy get me Easter eggs" Alaiya
Date: 27th Mar 2024 @ 10:44am
Today we explored how the weather affects different jobs. We began by talking about the different jobs we know people may do and used picture prompts to explore a number of different jobs. We then thought about how the weather might affect these people’s jobs, looking at different examples and sharing our ideas. For each job, we thought about how two different types of weather would affect that persons daily tasks.
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 5:16pm
The last couple of weeks we have been making our clay sculptures. We have made tinned food or jars of food. The children showed lots of perseverance sculpting their tins/jars and then again when painting them.
Year 5 - Shakespeare Aspiring Actors
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm
This term several of the year 5 pupils have been rehearsing for their performance of William Shakespeare's, Hamlet. Pupils had to learn their parts so they would be 'off script' for the performance, and develop their own take on the characters and dialogue. The attached photos are from our final dress rehearsal, where they were directed and encouraged by Emma Manton from the Royal Shakespeare Company. The pupils delivered an amazing performance on the night, and we are all excited to share the professional photos from the performance when they arrive.
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 3:52pm
This half term Year 2 have been working on their fundamental skills of throwing, catching, running and jumping. Throughout the half term we have enjoyed practising our skills in isolation as well as applying them to games.
Year 2- Making Moving Vehicles
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 3:48pm
Today, we used our designs to make our moving vehicles. We painted the wheels before using our marking out skills to mark out windows and doors to cut out. We used cellophane to create a glass effect in the windows before painting them the colours we had chosen in our design. We cannot wait to test them out tomorrow to see if we were successful in meeting the design brief.
Reception Willow Class visit the zoo.
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 12:35pm
This week the children in Willow class had a great day visiting Blackpool Zoo. Although it was a little bit wet and rainy it didnt stop us getting our water proofs and wellies on. We travelled to the zoo on the mini bus and when we arrived we took part in a workshop. During the workshop we were lucky enough to meet and hold a hissing cockroach aswell as explore lots of different items like; camel fur, elephant and snake skin, an elephant's tooth and a turtle shell. We saw lots of animals whilst exploring the zoo includuing; tigers, lions, giraffes, zebra, camels, gorillas, lemurs, red pandas, elephants and even a baby orangatan. What a great day we had!
Date: 25th Mar 2024 @ 10:25am
Some of our children in Year 1 created some fantastic Easter Eggs at home for our egg competition this week. Have a look at our brilliant creations!
