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Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:56pm
Alongside the rest of the school, today we learnt about VE day. We began the day with our online assembly, before enjoying a lovely themed lunch to celebrate!
Nursery Plant a Sunflower Seed
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:49pm
As part of our topic on growing, Nursery have been reading the story "Sam Plants a Sunflower" by Kate Petty. We have been talking about the lifecycle of a sunflower. The children planted their own sunflower seeds and have been learning how to take care of them. The children are excited to watch their seeds start to grow.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 11:14am
So far this half term, Year 4 have learned how to recognise, recall and spell 12 different classroom items with their indefinite articles/determiners in French.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:48am
This week saw Year 5 begin their new journey in Reading into Writing. As always, we begin with an oracy lesson. We are looking at the narrative poem 'The Highway Man' by Alfred Noyes. The children worked in groups, each taking a stanza to use their oracy skills including intonation, expression and performace to bring the stanza to life in a performance in front of the class.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:15am
In PSHE, we looked at teamwork and what skills are needed to be able to work well together. We had to order ourselves in numerical order withut speaking. This was very challenging as we had the numbers on our backs and we couldn't communicate with words. This also linked with 'Deaf Awareness Week' and thinking about how we could communicate in other ways than talking.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:11am
In our final week before SATs, we took our revision outside for a fun GPS market place activity. 20 questions were placed around the playground and the children had to collect letters as they went. If they were right, the letters created a punchline to a joke.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:04am
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.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 7:40am
This half term, Year Two are exploring programming using the beebots. We started the unit by pretending to be robots and giving instructions focusing on giving clear and concise instructions so they are easy to follow. This has lead us nicely into programming floor robots with different algorithms and making predictions of where we think it will finish it's program before testing it.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 7:38am
This week, Year Two have been learning how to measure lengths and heights. Yesterday, we looked at why we wouldn't measure everything in centimetres because it would take too long and be hard work to do it so we can measure things in metres. We used metre rulers to measure a variety of different things around our classroom and rounded it to the nearest whole metre.
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 9:33pm
This week, we used our amazing oracy skills in our Maths lessons.
Reception Imaginative Play Outside
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 4:33pm
Outside the children have been working together in the mud kitchen to create their own narratives through imaginative and real life play. The children worked together the chop and prepare a healthy meal for their family. The developed their oracy skills by discussing together why different foods are healthy or unhealthy.
"I've made Japan soup- it full of vegatables" Kevin
"Brocolli is healthy" Levi
"I've made soup" Renesmae
"Too much sugar is bad for your teeth" Freyja
"I have icecream but thats my special treat" Harry
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 3:40pm
This week we have read our new story, 'Zog.' We have read and discussed the story, created story maps, labelled the characters, written sentences to describe key events and completed lots of related tasks in our provision.
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 12:32pm
This week we have began to explore counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have looked at the patterns made on hundred squares to support our understanding, listened to lots of counting songs and completed different activities to develop our ability to count in 2s, 5s and 10s!
Date: 6th May 2025 @ 2:09pm
We were thrilled to welcome local poet and author Nathan Parker to our school, where he shared his inspiring journey into writing with the children. Hailing from Blackpool, Nathan spoke passionately about how his love for poetry began at a young age, sparked by his surroundings and a desire to tell stories. He captivated the students with tales of how Blackpool, with its vibrant culture and seaside atmosphere, influences much of his work. Nathan didn’t just talk about poetry—he worked closely with the children to create their own poem, encouraging them to use their imaginations and express their unique voices. The students loved the hands-on experience, and their faces lit up as their ideas came together into something truly special. Nathan’s visit was a wonderful reminder of the power of creativity, and he left the children with the message to keep writing and never stop dreaming—no matter where their own creative journeys take them.
Year 3- Year 3 Sikhism Online Visitor!
Date: 6th May 2025 @ 1:27pm
Today, we had an online session with a Sikh because in RE we are learning about Sikhism focusing on why are the Gurus important to Sikhs? Our online visitor showed us around the Gurdwara and taught us about his faith and explained why he commits himself to his faith. The tour around the Gurdwara allowed us to see and learn about what happens there and the importance of each room. This allowed us to learn about the importance of music within the religion, but also how it is a safe place for people and is used for events. He informed and showed us how the Guru Granth Sahib is treated and explained the importance of treating it with respect. We were able to ask him questions to link our understanding and learn more about Sikhism as he shared his experiences with us.
Nursery and the Beautiful Garden
Date: 5th May 2025 @ 4:20pm
The Nursery garden was beginning to look a bit sorry for itself and it was time to give it a make-over! After a lot of preparation,digging out beds, removing weeds and moving countless wheel barrows of garden rubble, it was time to plant some beautiful plants, flowers, grasses and herbs.The children played a big part in creating the garden and helped to dig out the old soil and plant the new flowers. The garden now looks beautful and we are excited to help look after it and watch the plants grow, Extra special thanks goes to Mrs McAllister. Without her expert knowldge and hard work, this wouldn't have been possible. Also a big thanks to Mr Galloway and Mr Harding who had the hard task of digging up the beds! And finally, thank you to the all the nursery staff and children for all their help.
Nursery and the Life Cycle of the Butterfly
Date: 5th May 2025 @ 3:57pm
Nursery have been reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and learning about the Life Cycle of a Butterfly. The children have been finding out about all the different stages and have been leanring some new vocabulary including metamorphsis! We were also very excited to get a special delivery of our very own caterpillars! They have already grown so much and we can't wait to watch them turn in to butterflies.
Acorns - The Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 8:02am
Acorns have enjoyed listening to the Hungry Caterpillar this week and engaging in a variety of multisensory activities to develop their understanding and engagement.
We have loved looking at our very own caterpillars and watching them grow bigger and bigger and learning about the butterfly life cycle.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 10:08am
Year 5 have kicked off an exciting new partnership with the charity Lancashire MIND, diving into some really important work all about building resilience and looking after their mental health. They've started exploring how to recognise and manage their emotions, support each other, and develop positive habits to boost their wellbeing – all in fun, engaging sessions that get everyone talking and thinking. It’s been a great opportunity for the children to learn valuable life skills, and they're already showing lots of enthusiasm and maturity as they begin this journey together.
Year 3- What and where is the USA?
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:23am
In Geography today, we were looking at where and what is The United States of America. We firstly looked at odd one outs for humans and physical features of North America. We then looked at identifying some of the key flags and matching them to the correct country. After this we watched a short film about the USA and identify the human and physical features in this. For our final task we used the atlas to identify different states and the location of them on the map.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:20am
Throughout the half term, we are going to design and create our own healthy fruit smoothie. Today, we tried a variety of fruit smoothies that already exist as well as trying a variety of different fruits to find out which ones we liked or disliked. This will help us when designing our own smoothie as we have evaluated their taste, texture and appearance and thought about how this might change when blended. We are looking forward to creating our smoothies in the next few weeks!
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:18am
This week in our French lesson, we had so much fun exploring the story of Little Red Riding Hood! We learnt eight nouns related to the tale. We talked about “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge” (Little Red Riding Hood), the sneaky “loup” (wolf), and our lovely “grand-mère” (Grandma). We even met her “parents” and discovered her “maison” (house) in the magical “forêt” (forest). The brave “bûcheron” (woodcutter) was there too! And oh, let’s not forget the delicious “gâteaux” (cakes) that Little Red Riding Hood brought! It was very challenging but we gave it a good go - our favourite word was 'le loup'.
Year 2- Immersed in twisted fairytales
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:18am
This half term, we are exploring the genre of Twisted fairytales. Over the last few days, we have enjoyed reading a variety of fairytales with a twist on the original. We have been identifying how they are twisted from the original as well as some of the key features including characters, settings, adjectives and adverbs to inspire us for our own twist on a classic fairytale.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:02am
This is the second lesson where all the musical learning and activities will be focused around the song Look Into The Night. In this lesson we Listened to and Appraised Look into the Night – this time focussing specifically on its genre, tempo and our opinions. We used our music stem sentences to give our opinions and to comment on the songs structure. Finally, we used the glockenspiels to play along with Look into the Night – we found this very difficult!
"This has a VERY fast tempo – it’s called ALLEGRO"
Alexander
"K-Pop means Korean Pop"
Darius
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 8:57am
In PE this week, children in year 5 have been doing gymnastics. In this lesson we talked about what is meant by 'excellent gymnastics' and how to land safely when performing jumps. The pupils then practised straight, pike and straddle jumps before learning to perform a stag jump.
Photos by LT (Hawthorn)
