: Blog items
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 2:33pm
To help engage and excite pupils in reading, we have been chatting about the books that we have checked-out of the new school library (The Attic). Each week, pupils will be given time to share their book with their peers and the whole class, explaining what they liked or disliked about the book. Together we will explore common themes and make links between different genres and different authors.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 2:03pm
Rowan class visited Aspire Academy yesterday as part of our Design and Technology unit. We have been working on frame structures this half term and the children were able to use the workshop at Aspire to start to build their frame structures, using all of the appropriate equipment. The children worked really hard and produced some great work using measuring and cutting skills.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 1:37pm
This lesson focused on what we could learn from evidence left behind in the Iron Age. The children carefully labelled key evidence and discussed what we could learn from it.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 1:29pm
Today we started our DT journey based on cooking. We will be creating our own wraps/pittas. We started the day by focusing on what it meant to have a healthy balanced diet and created a presentation. We then taste tested a variety of foods. Finally, we designd our wraps/pittas ready to make next week! Keep your eyes peeled for our final products!
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 12:16pm
As part of our biology lessons this half term, we have been learning about how our bodies change as we get older. In this lesson, pupils worked together to plan a fair test to investigate how people's eye-sight may be different. We discovered that moving closer to an object generally improves our vision. Also, we learned that as we get older our eye-sight gets worse as the lenses in our eyes become worn, and this is why more people wear glasses as they enter old age.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 8:10am
Over the past few weeks, Year Two have been doing Yoga in PE. It has helped us be more mindful, relaxed and calm as well as improving our balance and strength. We have completed a range of poses including: the warrior, superhero pose, spiderman pose, batman pose and a variety of others. At the end of each session, our cool down is a relaxing exercise where we focus on our breathing and bringing the calmness back into the classroom.
Nursery Meet Alan and his Big Scary Teeth
Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 1:01pm
Nursery read a brilliant story called "Alan's Big Scary Teeth" about an Alligator who scares all the jungle animals with his very large teeth! Alan takes really good care of his teeth, so we have been learning about how to take care of our own teeth and have practised brushing some giant teeth! We have also talked about "A" for alligator and thought of other items that begin with "A". To practise out counting, we have have been giving Alan the right number of teeth. To support the children with their social interactions, we played the Crocodile Tooth game. The children had to take it in turns to press down a tooth and hope that they don't get bitten by the crocodile!
Nursery Try to Catch The Gingerbread Man!
Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 11:21am
Nursery had their work cut out when they read the story "The Gingerbread Man". We ran as fast as we could but we just couldn't catch him! So, instead we explored the ingredients we needed to make gingerbread and then made our own Gingerbread Men. We practised ordering numbers 1 - 5, followed instructions to draw a gingerbread man and used tweezers to add buttons on gingerbread men. We never did catch the Gingerbread man!
Date: 30th Jan 2024 @ 8:24pm
WOW! What a great trip with Ribble Rivers Trust today down at Preston Docks. We went for a lovely walk along the river itself, visited the Pyramid building which controls the docks. Here we learned about the history of the dock, we learned that there's a manmade wall built at the mouth of the river near St Annes because they needed to control the course of the river more. When Preston Docks was fully open (before 1981) it saw cargo bring in things like silk, cotton and bananas. Nowadays, the dock is used for leisure craft. Back at the boatyard, we learned about river safety. We learned the acronym SAFE (Stay, Away, From the Edge) and that if we ever find ourselves in a river with no help, we should lay like a starfish with our feet at pointing towards to direction of the water flow. We even had the opportunity to see the bridge move like how it does when it has to allow boats through.
Date: 30th Jan 2024 @ 4:08pm
Today, we used our designs to make healthy fruit smoothies. First, we washed our hands to make sure we were ready to handle food before practicing the bridge method to hold and carefully chop different fruit into smaller pieces. Once the fruit was all chopped up, we put the correct fruits into a blender until they were smooth. Then we got to taste them! Most of us loved our smoothies and thought they were really tasty.
Date: 30th Jan 2024 @ 2:43pm
In Gymnastics this week we began by recapping on the basic body shapes the children have practised over the years. We then discussed the terms counter-tension and counter balance. Our lesson involved creating different balances on a variety of points and patches. We developed a sequence of balances and linked each balance with a travel or transition.
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.
