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Reception The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 2:11pm
The children ihn Reception have been busy completing lots of work based around the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' We have been orally retelling and sequencing the story using a range of scienfic vocabularly, learning about the butterfly lifecycle, writing sentences, painting and collaging caterpillars and butterflies aswell as lots of maths themed activities. We have been completing butterfly doubles aswell as adding and subtracting single digit numbers. Have a look at all our learning!
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 2:00pm
In this maths lesson, pupils had to use a variety of strategies to solve a tricky fraction puzzle. They found the best way was to use a 'bar model' to organise their work and use their knowledge of times tables and fractions to calculate at each step. The pupils worked in pairs and they showed amazing resilience and perseverance to find the solution.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 1:54pm
As part of their writing journey, year 5 pupils have been working collaboratively to write part of a historical narrative. Working together, pupils have changed part of the classical poem, The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes, into a narrative.
Reception- Keeping Safe in the Sun.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 1:36pm
Over the last few weeks, the weather has become quite warm and sunny- some days it has even been hot!
The children in Reception have been learning about sun safety.
"Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes from the bright sunshine" Myla- Gray.
"You need to wear a sun hat to stop your head from getting too much sun" Lilah.
"Make sure you wear sun screen. It stops you from getting sunburnt" Hazel.
"Always drink lots of water to stay hydrated" Kevin.
"Remember to stay in the shade too" Theo.
Take a look at us keeping safe in the sun while we play outside.
Planting Our Wild Flower Garden
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 10:02am
We have recycled some our our donated tires into planters and created two wild flower gardens. These are to help the bees, butterflies and other creatures have homes and to provide food for them over the summer season. We cant wait to see them grow and we will keep you updated.
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 9:43am
This week we have been exploring the life cycle of a bean and reading Jasper's Beanstalk. We've enjoyed using lots of props during story telling, especially getting wet with the water spray!
We planted our own beans and are excited to water them daily, watching and waiting for the shoots to appear.
We've also been very creative this week, finishing our caterpillars ready to plant them with cress and using potatoes to print leaves onto our beanstalks.
Year 3 - Geography News Reporters
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:54pm
In this week's Geography lesson we learnt about the eruption at Mount St Helen’s which occurred on Sunday 18th May 1980 at 8:32 am. We learnt that this eruption has been likened to that of the dramatic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Thankfully, through scientists observing the volcano, they noticed that the north side of the peak began to bulge and earthquakes were being detected under the mountain. This led to the prediction that an eruption would happen imminently, which meant that they could evacuate the surrounding areas as best as they could. With the information that the children had learned, they had to do a news report on it. They got into trios and had: one reporter, one eye witness and a scientist. They did such a fantastic job - I defintiely think we have some future broadcasters on our hands!
Year 3 - Improvising and Composing
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:46pm
In Music this week, we used YUMU on Charanga and composed our own piece of music using notes F G A. We began by exploring the notes and compsing a rhytam of our own. We then concentrated on creating our own ostinato – making sure that each line was the same, or at least every other line was the same. We enjoyed using these range of notes and also explored with the lengths of notes, 4 beats, 3 beats, 2 beats and 1 beat.
Nursery and the Bean Experiment
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 3:04pm
Continuing our topic on growth,Nursery carried out a bean experiment. We placed a damp piece of cotton in a plastic bag and placed a bean inside. We sealed the plastic bag and taped it to the window so the heat from the sun would help it germinate. Now we've just got to wait and see what happens!
Nursery Become Flower Detectives
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 2:51pm
Nursery have been learning all about groiwth and change through planting seeds and life cycles, This week they explored flowers and have identified the leaves, stem and petals. The children were provided with tweezers, scissors and magnifying glasses so they could explore the intricate parts of the flower.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 2:27pm
Today we explored doubles using practical resources. We recapped on what doubling means and how to work out the answers using base 10 and counters. We also practised writing number sentences to show each double.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 9:15am
In music, Year 2 listen and appraised the music from ET- The flying theme. We also watched the clip from the film to see how the music had an effect on the scene. We thought about the instruments, dynamtics, pitch, tempo and we shared our thoughts and feelings on the piece. We then had a final practise of the song 'I wanna play in a band' and performed the peice with actions.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 9:12am
In computing year 2 have been looking at creating their own mats for their beebots to navigate. Once we had designed our mats, we then created algorithms for our beebots to reach destinations. We then added obstacles to make our algorithms harder to nativigate.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:22am
In today's lesson, Year 5 took inspiration from 'Look into The Night', a piece of K-Pop music, and composed their own pieces using the Charanga software 'YUMU'. This is an aopportunity for children to use their knowledge of notes, composition, affect and timing as well as their own creativity to compose and perform their composed pieces.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:05am
What an exciting afternoon we had in Year 2! Rev Thompson came to visit, and he was absolutely brilliant at introducing our young learners to the fascinating symbols of Christianity. He shared the meaning behind each symbol with such enthusiasm that the children were captivated from the very start.
One highlight was when he explained the Holy Trinity—what a thoughtful concept for the little ones to grasp! The difference between a cross and a crucifix was another important lesson; the kids were intrigued to learn how these symbols each tell a part of the Christian story.
Rev Thompson also wore his dog collar, which sparked a lot of curious questions. He told the children how this symbol represents his role and commitment as a priest, which they found really inspiring. All in all, it was a lovely afternoon filled with learning, and our Year 2s now have a better understanding of Christianity. Thank you, Rev Thompson!
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 7:48am
This half term, Year Two have been doing Gymnastics. We have explored how to create a range of shapes including: pike, tuck, straddle and star as well as practicing our rolling techniques to accurately complete a teddy bear roll, egg roll and log roll. We have used these skills to try and create a short sequence and performed them to our peers.
Date: 13th May 2025 @ 10:46am
Wow! Our caterpillars have changed into chrysalis. We were so excited to see our caterpillars have started their change into butterflies.
Coby "chrysalis"
Keiha Lilly "butterflies" - Yes they are going to turn into butterflies.
We can't wait to see what happens next!
Date: 12th May 2025 @ 2:28pm
Today we began to learn about repeated addition to help us record how to add equal groups. We worked practically and from pictorial representations to identify the number of groups and how many items in each group.
Date: 12th May 2025 @ 1:54pm
This half term, we have Fit 2 Go from Blackpool FC Community Trust in supporting us with our healthy lifestyle and fitness learning. This week, we look at the names and functions of some of our bones and muscles, then we looked at how the blood pumps around our bodies. We even counted our own pulse.
Reception The Lifecycle of a Butterfly
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 2:21pm
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about the lifecycle of butterfly. We have been observing our classroom caterpillars watchikng the grow and change. The children have made some fantastic observations of what is happening.
"The caterpillar is eating the food" Oakley
"They are growing bigger and fatter" Dennis
"The caterpillar is hanging upside down. He's going to make a a cucoon soon" Lily-Mae
We have been watching videos and exploring each stage of the lifecycle in detail. We have learnt lots of new vocabularly and the children have been orally rehearsing their sentences using the correct scientific terms.
"The butterfly lays little eggs on a leaf" Freyja
"The egg hatches and the caterpillar comes out" RJ
"The make cucoons and transform into beautiful butterflies" "Kevin
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:09pm
Our KS2 Pupils have enjoyed exploring the costumes, blankets and accessories we have out at lunch times. Pupils have really got in to character creating their own stories and adventures.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 1:04pm
Our Keystage One pupil have enjoyed working together, developing their communication and teamwork skills while building a boose out of loose parts. This developed into a role play activity which everyone enjoyed being part of. Super work !
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 11:47am
Reception have been creating artwork after reading the story The Dot by Peter H Reynolds. This is a story about developing a good growth mindset when being creative. Everyone painted a large dot and drew a face on it and then designed their own pattern on a smaller dot. We painted the dots pink and used pink and red felt tips to draw the features on a face and create our patterns.
Date: 9th May 2025 @ 8:26am
As the weather has improved, Acorns have introduced Funky Feet in the afternoons. Funky Feet is a sensory regulation walking activity which engages multiple senses of the body, and supports the nervous system, emotional wellbeing and self regulation.
We enjoy following the footsteps around the playground, moving in different ways and then exploring the trim trail. We will be enjoying this activity for the next two terms while the sun is shining.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:59pm
The children are really enjoying painting outside so we decided to create some beautiful sunflowers in the lovely sunshine.The children were provided with green, yellow and brown paint and a sunflower outline and were allowed to explore the colours by mixing and using paintbrushes to create different effetcs. The results were super and we even had a sunflower with a smiley face!
