: Blog items
Date: 30th Jan 2024 @ 12:21pm
Nursery really enjoy our music session. The children get to explore different instruments, learn to keep a steady beat and learn to take turns they pass the instruments round. The children also love to get up and dance to the music.
Reception Learning about animals that live in cold places
Date: 29th Jan 2024 @ 10:20pm
This week the children in Reception have been investigating and find out about different animals that live in cold places. In small groups we looked at the globe and world map to identify the hot and cold places. We found out that the top and bottom of the globe is the coldest and the middle is the warmest. Some of the children spotted that the Arctic (North Pole) and Antarctica (South Pole) are white on the map. As a group we talked about why it might be white and the children responded by saying "it's a cold temperature" and "it's is snowy and frozen". We talked about Antartica is a continent and what this means. The children then enjoyed exploring the different animals that might live in these cold habitats and how they survive there.
"Penguins huddle to keep warm" Sid
"Penguin have fat under their skin to keep warm:" Esmai
"Polar bears like to eat seals. They smell them from far away" George
"Penguins eat fish and they catch them in the sea" Nikola
"Baby penguins are called chicks" Elisha.
The children also took part in lots of cray activities using the different resources at the creative table to collage and paint polar bears and penguins.
Year 4 - French numbers to 100!
Date: 29th Jan 2024 @ 6:29pm
WOW! Year 4 amazed us today with their resilience to understanding French numbers up to 100. Can you use the slides from class to tell your family at home some numbers?
Year 3- Final Forest School fun!
Date: 29th Jan 2024 @ 8:49am
Last week saw Year 3 take on the final forest school session of Winter! The children enjoyed using their skills to build shelters and to build and cook on a fire! We enjoyed the tasty treat of popcorn!
Date: 29th Jan 2024 @ 7:46am
This week Reception have had lots of fun in PE pretending to be super heroes!
They practiced their running, jumping and hopping skills and then went on to throwing and catching. They had to listen, take turns and try not to crash into each other.
Take a look at our photos.
Date: 28th Jan 2024 @ 4:41pm
Acorns have enjoyed their outdoor provision this week.
We have had lots of fun in the water trays, catching fish and ducks.
Our focus has been on developing turn taking skills, waiting and playing alongside others.
Date: 28th Jan 2024 @ 10:46am
What a great day we had for our DT Food Day! We started the day planning what we wanted in our sandwiches and what we wanted the sandwich to look like. Then we recapped how to do the bridge and claw method for cutting food. When we were deciding what to put in our sandwiches we had to remember that they needed to look appetising and needed to be an example of a balanced diet. Year 4 did a great job!
Year 6 - Describing hair in French
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 6:14pm
In our French lesson this week we have been learning how to describe hair by colour, length and style. After learning the correct vocabulary, we played a game of French 'Guess Who'. We then described our own hair to each other. The children worked really hard and used their knowledge of French phonics to perfect their pronunciation.
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 6:07pm
Today we created our final product to bring our designs to life! We followed our design to safely cut out the pieces we needed to create our mechanisms and put them together to make our final picture. We all showed lots of perseverance and determination to create our moving pictures.
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 11:35am
In this music journey, pupils are learning about South African protests songs. These are usually a fussion of different musical genres; especially jazz, gospel and pop music. Pupils learned the words of a song called, 'Freedom is Coming' and sang, whilst other children improvised a melody using pitched percussion instruments.
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 11:23am
In PE this week, pupils continued on their Yoga journey. We have learned the Sun Salutation movement and discussed how yoga and meditation can help support our mental and physical health. Pupils enjoyed this time to be peaceful and relax their bodies.
Year 3- The Mystery of Stonehenge!
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 8:56am
In History this week, we investigated Stonehenge. We looked into why it is so difficult to know why Stonehenge was made. In groups we used our oracy skills to discuss 4 different theories around Stonehenge. Using our previous knowledge on The Stone Age, we discussed if we thought these theories were plausible and which we felt was most likely.
Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 6:56pm
Today we began our DT journey and learnt about different mechanisms.
The first mechanism we created was a slider. We created a slider based around a scene from ‘The Gingerbread Man’, which enabled a character to move forwards and backwards to chase the main character. We learnt how we were going to make the mechanism safely, read through the instructions and took great care to carry out each step.
The next mechanism to master was a lever. For this mechanism we linked our learning to the story Jack and the Beanstalk. Again, we talked through the instructions as a class, following the prototype Miss Kay made and spotting her mistakes! We then had a turn at making the lever mechanism ourselves. We followed each instruction carefully and all successfully made a lever to show Jack and his beanstalk! We accurately measured specific lengths and cut all the parts correctly. We recapped on the importance of safety whilst using scissors and putting split pins through pieces of paper and card. We then discussed the key parts of the mechanism such as the arm and pivot.
Acorns Bucket: Attention Autism
Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 4:49pm
Introducing Bucket - Attention Autism
Acorns have been enjoying 'Bucket'. Developing focus and attention skills, turn taking and aticipation through fun activities.
Acorns have enjoyed experiening a variety of fun action objects and winter realated activities like snow, snowman splatt and snow fountains.
Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 4:48pm
Today in Science we were investigating how to make a bulb light. We started off by trying to light up Energy Sticks. We worked together and found out that in order to light, the sticks needed to be part of a circuit. We learned that energy travels around a circuit and if there is a break in the circuit, the energy can no longer travel all the way around. We then applied what we had learned to build a circuit that would make a bulb light. We also used an interactive program to build a circuit that would make a bulb light. We experimented with using more than one bulb in a circuit and using more than one power source.
Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 4:29pm
In Year Two, we have been busy trying lots of fruit to think about what we like and dislike in preparation for making our smoothies. We tried a variety of fruits including: raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, peaches, mango, pineapple, melon and kiwi. We described the texture, the smell and the taste of each fruit and will use it to help us design and make our own smoothie in the coming weeks.
Year 6 - Primary Futures event
Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 1:32pm
On Friday, Year 6 were involved in a Primary Futures event based around guessing 4 people's jobs. We were tasked with picking a set of 5 questions to ask the people about their jobs and had to guess what they did for a living at the end. Our 5 questions were:
Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 10:47am
Year 3 got to experience Travelling by Tuba, an interactive musical trip through the year ! The children loved looking at all the different instruments and hearing the amazing music!
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 9:05pm
We started our LGBTQ+ research today. In Reading into Writing, our genre is News Reports. We used our digital literacy skills to research Blackpool Pride. We will use this information to write News Reports about Pride in Blackpool.
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 8:22pm
This half term, Year 4 are creating their own platter of sandwiches. To help decide what fillings they wanted in their sandwich, they tasted 15 different fillings and 3 types of bread. Whilst tasting the different foods, the children wrote down their thoughts about the appearance, smell, taste and texture of the foods. We then used these ideas to create a class table of descriptions.
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 7:31pm
In History today we explored how recent excavations can help us to change the way we viewed the Vikings. We learned that they were skilled craftsmen, who were able to make items such as weapons, clothes and jewellery. We also learned about the excavaiton in \york in 1978 that led to the discovery of a whole Viking settlement right under the streets of the city. We were then given the opportunity to look at a range of replica artefacts and discuss what they told us about the Vikings.
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 7:36am
This week Reception have been learning how to keep safe and be responsible when crossing the road.
They had a special visitor from Zoe our crossing patrol warden or, as we like to say, our lollypop lady!
We all learnt that we have to :
1- Find a safe place to cross.
2- Stay on the curb.
3- Look both ways.
4- Listen for the traffic.
5-Then walk sensibly across the road.
"I have to hold my mummy's hand when I cross the road" Lucy.
"Zoe helps me cross the road safely when I come to school"
Date: 21st Jan 2024 @ 1:38pm
Acorns have enjoyed exploring all things wintery this week.
Ice, snow and snowmen have all made an appearance inside the classroom as well as outside.
Students have had fun exploring all things wintery.
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 3:43pm
This week we had a visit from two amazing musicians. We were taken on a musical trip around the world, listening to different instruments and learning about musical styles from different cultures. The children really enjoyed the assembly and learned more about music appreciation.
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 3:33pm
Please read the slides below for key information about the 2024 Year 6 SATs.
