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Acorns - Life cycle of a frog

Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 11:24am

This week Acorns enjoyed a visit from some tadpoles to class. We loved looking at them swimming around in their watery habitat. We have been exploring the life cycle of frogs through songs, learning activities and multi sensory experiences and stories.. 

Nursery Trim a Caterpillar

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:24pm

Nursery have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. One day they came to Nursery to find a giant caterpillar made out of spaghetti! There was only one thing to do - trim that caterpillar! The children were able to develop their fine motor skills and practise their scissor skills. The caterpillar was unrecognisable by the end! 

Nursery and The Dot

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:15pm

As part of a whole school Art Day, Nursery created some wonderful portraits inspired by the story The Dot. We listened to the story and talked about creating pieces of art from a simple mark on the paper. Each year group were given a different colour to work with and ours was pink. The children were all given a circle and asked to create a self-portrait on their dot. The results were outstanding! 

Year 6 - Kooth webinar

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 4:08pm

Today Year 6 took part in a pre-SATs Kooth workshop online. The aim of the event was to talk to children about how they felt going into the SATs and what strategies they could use to help them with any worries or anxities they were having about the tests. The children were also introduced to the Kooth website, which is a support platform for young people. Kooth is the UK's largest and longest established digital mental health service that partners with NHS and local authority organisations to deliver mental health support to young children. If children would like to create their own account then we encourage parents/carers to sit with their children and look through the website. 

Year 3 - Forest School

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 12:56pm

What a fabulous day we had at Forest School today! Our Year 3 pupils were buzzing with excitement as they discovered some amazing things in nature. Did you know that you can actually eat every part of a dandelion? From the leaves in salads to the flowers in tea, these cheerful yellow flowers are more than just a weed!

The children began their adventure by exploring the forest school area. They got really creative and built dens using sticks and leaves—what a brilliant team effort! Over at the mud kitchen, they set up a quirky little café, selling ice cream and whipping up delicious pizza. Yum!

The pupils also took care of our plants, watering flowers and fruit bushes, helping them grow big and strong. They even added extra water to our pond, so it would flow into the second pond. Along the way, we spotted tiny tadpoles swimming about and even a couple of cheeky small frogs!

Finally, the children got their hands dirty digging in the ditch. Guess what they found? Shapes that looked just like dinosaur footprints! How exciting is that? We can't wait for our next forest adventure!

Year 5 - K-Pop Stars

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 11:09am

In the next two lessons, all the musical learning and activities will be focussed around the song Look Into The Night. Learn all about K-pop music with Look Into The Night. K-pop is a style of Pop music that began in the 1990s in South Korea and is now very popular all around the world!

Year 4 - Poem hot writes

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:38am

This week, we typed up our hot writes of our Poem on a Theme. The theme was about rivers - linking to our Geography unit. Have a look at some of the amazing figurative language the children have used.

Year 3 - Art Day

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:07am

Today, we had an exciting art lesson inspired by the story 'The Dot'! We all started by drawing our self-portraits within a circle, using our best sketching skills. It was so much fun to see everyone’s creative ideas come to life! Then came the best part: painting with watercolours in different shades of yellow. We learned to mix white with yellow and even a bit of gold to create fantastic tones. The classroom lit up with all the bright yellows! I can’t wait to see the masterpieces put on display in school for everyone to admire. Well done, Year 3!

Year 2- Dance

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:00am

Year Two completed their dance unit to the song 'I just can't wait to be king.' We explored how to show emotions through our dances and expressions. We loved dancing to the song and working together to try and piece a dance together. 

Year 1 How to Catch a Star

Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:25am

Our first story this half term is 'How to Catch a Star.' This week we have read the story, drawn our own story maps to help us retell the key events, labelled key characters from the story and written speech bubbles. We have also completed lots of activities related to the story in our clasroom provision. 

Year 4 - Art

Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:15pm

Year 4 completed art work based on the story 'The Dot' which was told to us in assembly. 

The children used ideas from Kandinsky to form patterns focusing on line and colour.

The children then drew their portraits on larger circles and used one colour to show depth by using tint, tone and shade.

Year 4 - No Pen Morning - Maths

Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:09pm

Yer 4, used cuisenaire rods for a no-pen morning in maths. It was a a great way to encourage hands-on, visual learning. Pupils explored fractions. They were given different tasks such as identifying fractions and finding what parts make up wholes.

Eco- School Uniform Swap

Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 4:57pm

This week we have held our school uniform swap! Parents, carers and children all enjoyed swapping their old uniform for new- reusing and recycling.

The Dot

Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 8:50pm

The whole school created some wonderful art work inspired by the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds and the artist Wassily Kandinsky. The story "The Dot" explores the idea that anyone can be an artist by starting with a small mark on a piece of paper. Each year group were given a single colour to work with and then created a self-portrait on one circle and  patterns on  another. To add depth and contrast, the children explored tints, hues and shades and added texture using different marks and lines. The circles are going to be used to create our very own Boundary Dot display. 

Year 5 - The Dot Artwork

Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:42pm

Inspired by the book 'The Dot' by Peter Reynolds and the work of abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), pupils have created their own artwork using a single colour to create a self-portrait within a dot. This required a variety of skills including sketching, colour mixing and painting. Pupils were asked to consider colour, tone and hue when completing their final piece. Soon, the artwork will be combined with work from other year groups and displayed around the school.

Year 2- The Dot

Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:28pm

Today, we participated in Art Day based upon the book 'The Dot' inspiring that anyone can be an artist by starting with a mark. First, we explored making a portrait focusing on practicing how to draw our key features and drew them on an orange dot as this was our colour of focus. Finally, this afternoon we explored creating patterns using three colours: red, orange and yellow. 

Year 1 The Dot

Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 2:26pm

We began our new half term by reading the story 'The Dot.' We talked about the message in the story and the characteristics the character shows. We then painted a background on our circles, before creating two different dots. One showed a self portrait of ourselves and on the other we created a pattern dot using oil pastels and felt tips.

Acorns - Happy Easter

Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 10:45am

Acorns had an enjoyable week exploring what Easter means to different people. We listened to the Easter story, created lots of Easter art and enjoyed lots of sensory activities.

Our favourite was the Easter egg hunt, we enjoyed searching for lots of different colourful eggs hidden around the playground. 

We also had great fun making fruit kebabs and exploring different fruits through our senses. All ready for nexts term's theme of growing. 

Happy Easter everyone. 

 

Year 1 Zoo Trip

Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 6:17pm

Today Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed a very sunny day at Blackpool Zoo! We saw lots of animals including elephants, monkeys, lions, wallabies, giraffes, sealions and penguins! We enjoyed observing the animals in their habitats and looking at/reading the signs to find out where the animals originate from and their diet. It was a very busy day at the zoo and we were all very well behaved and represented our school brilliantly. 

Nursery Hunt for Easter Eggs

Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 2:25pm

We had a visit from the Easter Bunny who hid some chocolate eggs in our garden! The children worked together to find the bunnies and carrots that led us to the eggs. We had to find 24 eggs, so it was a big job but we managed it! We counted together to check we had 24 eggs and we were so happly that we had found them all! Then we went in small groups to race our Easter eggs down a hill! 

Nursery and the Easter Nests

Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 2:16pm

To celebrate Easter, the nursey children made some delicious Easter Nests. We melted the choclate and talked about how when chocolate gets hot it melts and goes runny. We then mixed cornflakes in to the the choclolate and spooned the mixture in to cake case before finally adding a sweet on top. We then talked about how when the chocolate cooled down, it would go hard again and the cakes would be ready to eat! 

Year 5 - PSHE in Spring 2

Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:41am

In PSHE this half-term, we’ve focused on celebrating Neurodiversity Week, learning about Autism and neurodivergence through fun activities. We discussed how everyone’s brain works differently and explored this with a creative task where we followed tricky instructions to make pictures—each of us interpreted them differently, showing how unique we all are. We also talked about how things like visual aids and clearer instructions can help us communicate better. On top of that, we explored time management by looking at how we manage deadlines (like homework) and the tools that help us stay on track, such as lists, timers, and alarms. Finally, we discussed teamwork, looking at different teams (from sports to emergency services) and how it feels to be part of a successful group. It’s been a great journey of learning about individuality, time, and collaboration!

Year 5 - Miracles

Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:40am

In R.E., we’ve had an exciting time exploring the miracles of Jesus and how they relate to our lives today. We kicked things off by talking about what we consider miracles, like a sports team’s comeback, and discussed whether miracles are linked to fate or chance. We also went on a pilgrimage (well, sort of!) by learning about the journeys and holy sites important to Christianity. We even packed suitcases and explored why these pilgrimages are significant. After some hands-on activities, we solidified our learning through discussions and interactive tools. We then tested our knowledge with a fun debate on whether miracles are too impossible to believe in. Finally, we reflected on everything we’ve learned and shared our thoughts and feelings on miracles. It’s been an insightful and thought-provoking journey!

Year 2- Making moving vehicles

Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:20am

This half term we have been making our own moving vehicles. We decided what we would use to create our wheels and axles and designed our boxes to create the shape we wanted for our car. Then, we used our marking out skills to cut out windows and added designs once they had been painted. We loved our cars and were excited to take them home to use. 

Year 2- No Pen Morning

Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:14am

This week, Year 2 participated in no pen morning. In reading into writing, we continued looking at non-chronological reports by sorting facts into the correct subheading which will help us when writing our own this week. In maths, we exploring recognising a quarter, we sorted shapes and amounts into whether they were quarters or not.  

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