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Year 3- Super shell structures!
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:07am
Our DT focus this half term has been evaluating, designing and making shell structures. We created our final product of an easter gift box and included fastening of bows or velcro. This meant that our gift boxes could be reused and we spoke about how the cardboard material that is was made from was recyclable. The children really enjoyed using CAD on the computers to create their final design.
Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 6:53pm
Our Easter Disco was enjoyed by lots of our Year 1 children! We enjoyed wearing our party clothes, dancing and playing party games!
Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 4:26pm
Today was No Pen Day and once we again we had a focus on Oracy. We started the day with some discussions topics and talked to our partners about what we thought. We then opened up the discussion to the whole class and used our talk tactics to include everyone, including agree, build and challenge. In Guided Reading we looked at orally answering questions on given texts and challenged each other to give thorough answers. In Reading into Writing, we took part in a teacher model/shared write session on explanatory texts.
Year 6 - School Subjects in French
Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 4:06pm
This half term we are learning about school in French. We will learn the names for school subjects and how to express opinions about school subjects. We will finish the unit by learning how to tell the time so we can explain what time we study each subject
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 8:13pm
Today, we celebrated our No Pen Morning by having a fantastic oracy lesson! We focused on the importance of listening and joining in when we're having discussions. We even recapped our amazing strategies like agreeing, building on someone else’s ideas, and challenging answers respectfully. We also shared the different roles we can take, like being the instigator who starts the conversation, the prober who asks questions, and the summariser who wraps it all up nicely. One of our fun activities was figuring out which objects were the odd one out and spotting similarities and differences—lots of great discussions were had! In Maths, we learned about volume and capacity. We measured different containers to see how much they could hold, ordering them from least to most. We discovered that some looked different but held the same amount of water, so we poured from one to the other! We even tackled some tricky capacity statements, working out intervals and volumes of jugs. What a brilliant day!
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 6:46pm
We began No Pen Day with reading the story of 'The Blind Men and the Elephant' in our RE lesson. We discussed our understanding of the story together, before completing two missing word activities to revist the story, the key parts and the meaning behind it. In Maths, we then worked practically to find the difference between two given numbers. We used cubes to make two amounts, before lining up the cubes carefully to find the difference between the two numbers.
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 10:18am
For no pen morning, we used our oracy skills in both Reading into Writing and Guided Reading. We are learning about poems on a theme in Reading into Writing and we had a poem about Spring in Guided Reading. In Reading into Writing, it was over to us! It was time for our shared write. We used our figurative language skills and typed a few verses ecah. Then we put them together as one poem and performed them.
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 8:54am
This half term, Year 4 have been learning how they would describe where they live in French. The children prepared a conversation in French in pairs or small groups. They listened to each other carefully and responded back to questions.
The children used the sentence stem Chez moi il y a and Chez moi il n' y a pas de which means In my home there is or there is not a ________
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 6:26pm
This week the children in Reception have been exploring why Easter is a special celebration in the Christian calendar. We started the week of attending a special Easter assembly led by our Year Six children. Back in the classroom we explored a range of new words using our vocabulary and explored the key events which took place in 'Holy Week' We even had a special visit from Reverend Matt who explained why Easter is importanct to Christains and how is celebrated throughout the year through holy communion. To support our learning during continuous provision we were set several challenges including sequencing the event of Holy week, making our own representation of the crucifixtion and completing a tresure hunt in the outside area looking for special symbols accosiated with Easter including; the cross and eggs.
"Jesus died on the cross" Freyja
"The put nails in his hands" Theo
"He had a special meal with his friends, the disciples" Lilah
"He gave them bread for his body and wine for his blood" Aurora
"They put him in a tomb" Emily
"When they went back it was empty" Dennis
"Jesus had come back to life" Lily-Mae
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 12:40pm
These are some of our Year 1 entries for our Boundary Easter Egg competition. Well done to all the children who entered and we are looking forward to finding out the winner!
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 12:27pm
This half term, we have been exploring balance, coordination and sequences of movement through gymnastics. We have developed individual movements aswell as working with others to create sequences in unison.
Date: 7th Apr 2025 @ 10:55am
This term during maths we have been exploring mass and capacity. We have enjoyed engaging in lots of hands on activities to explore the concepts of full and empty, hot and cold, big and small and heavy and light. We have enjoyed the practical activities with visual supports to support our learning and develop our understanding.
Date: 6th Apr 2025 @ 2:59pm
Acorns have been developing their climbing and balancing skills this term and exploring the different ways our bodies can move.
We have enjoyed balancing along the benches, moving forwards, sideways and backwards, as well as crawling and pulling ourselves along. We have practiced jumping off the benches from different heights and climbing on and off safely.
Acorns have also enjoyed exploring sausage rolls and forward rolls with the support of the large yoga ball. We also use our PE sessions to develop our turn taking and waiting skills during these activities.
Date: 6th Apr 2025 @ 2:41pm
Acorns have enjoyed their music sessions this term. We have used the weekly sessions to explore the recorder and xylophone.
We have loved creating our own music and developing our focus and concentration skills and learning to work in a small group adult led activity for extended periods.
Acorns - Walking through the Jungle
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 4:18pm
Acorns have loved exploring animals and their habitats this week. We have enjoyed multi sensory activities along with our story, Walking Through the Jungle, to support our learning, understanding and engagement.
We enjoyed exploring that people live in homes and different animals live in different places including jungles, oceans, mountains and deserts, but we all lived together on Earth.
Year 1 Addition and Subtraction
Date: 4th Apr 2025 @ 10:42am
This week we have revisited addition and subtraction. We have practised adding and subtracting on number lines, by crossing out and using related facts to help our understanding.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 3:44pm
In this week’s Forest School lesson, pupils cooked on the campfire. They made gluten-free welsh cakes which were delicious, especially when eaten warm! Pupils also made clay models and built dens in the wild area. What a brilliant time in the spring sunshine!
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 12:14pm
This week, pupils in year 5 have had the chance to investigate a range of artefacts from Ancient Greece thanks to Lancashire County Council’s museum loan service. Pupils made observations of the objects and discussed what they were. The children sketched the artefacts and made notes about them from research and their own ideas. They also had the chance to dress up as a Greek hoplite and hold the weapons they would have used.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:16am
In our dance lesson today, we explored how light plays a huge role in creating reflections and shadows. Have you ever noticed how shadows change shape when we move? It’s almost like they’re dancing with us! We started by pretending to be a warm, beams of light, as we travelled in straight lines around the hall. Then, we switched gears and partnered up do be eachothers' shadow where we had to copy the movements. Remember, light can transform everything around us, and dancing helps us understand these amazing science concepts. Let's keep experimenting with our movements!
Year 3 and Year 4 - Police Horses
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:11am
Recently, we had a fantastic day meeting some very important members of our community—the police horses and officers from Lancashire Constabulary! It was so exciting to see these magnificent horses up close. The officers explained that police horses can be seen at big events, making sure everyone is happy and safe. They even showed us how the horses received their training! We learned that these brave animals and their human partners work together to protect us. What an incredible experience it was!
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am
On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!
Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 8:57pm
Acorns were excited to welcome their families into class for our Easter stay and play. We enjoyed hunting for eggs in the hay, decorating Easter eggs and trying to balance eggs on towers.
Acorns children enjoyed sharing an Eater Bucket time activity with their families and showing what all the excitement is about.
Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 5:00pm
The children were so excited to welcome their parents and carers in to nursery for our Easter Stay and Play. They made some Easter crafts together and iced an Easter biscuit. The children throughly enjoyed showing their favourite people around nursery and sharing with them what they do when they are at school.
Nursery and the Elephant Trunks
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 5:04pm
We have throughly enjoyed reading zoo stories over the past two weeks inlcuding "Poo in the Zoo" and "Dear Zoo". After exploring elephant poo, we decided to make our own elephants. Mrs Welch found a super idea using a party blower as the elephants trunk. The children spent time carefully collaging their elephants before being given the ultimate elephant trunk! The children had a wonderful time blowing the party blowers and pretending to be elephants. It was quiet tricky to get a sound out of the party blower and the children had to practise before managing to create a super loud sound! By the end of the day, Mrs Welch wasn't sure it was such a wonderful idea and went home with a headache!
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 3:44pm
