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Date: 6th Nov 2023 @ 5:23pm
In today's lesson, we recapped on our learning from last week including the four countries of the UK, their capitals and the seas surrounding the British Isles. We then went on to discuss where people in the UK live. We learned about cities, towns, villages and hamlets before using maps and online atlases to locate major towns and cities in our local area and the UK.
Whole School Remembrance Assembly
Date: 6th Nov 2023 @ 3:38pm
This morning's assembly was all about Remembrance. We looked at how Blackpool was affected in the war and what went on in Blackpool during those time. For example, soldiers came to Blackpool to train on the beach.
We also had a fantastc BLT returned this morning! A poppy garden.
Date: 6th Nov 2023 @ 12:32pm
Today we went on our local area walk around Grange Park. Whilst on our observational walk we looked for different types of houses, similarities and differences between them and how Grange Park has changed over time. At the end of our walk we then visited @thegrange. We met with Anna and Claire who showed us around the gardens and talked to us about the different services @thegrange offers.
Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 9:53pm
This week Reception have been having a spooky time in class!
We listened to the story Room on the Broom, had fun retelling it at the story table, made repeating patterns on a witches hat, and also using spooky objects, painted pumpkins and spiders and wrote CVC words from the story too.
Ouside the children carved pumpkins and made spooky potions.
Year 6 - Meet the House Captains and Prefects
Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 5:03pm
Our House Captains and Prefects have been doing a great job since their selection. They have a number of roles to carry out throughout the week, including reading with younger children, organsing Friday assemblies and helping in other classes on a Friday afternoon. There will be many other roles and responsibilites for them to be involved with over the year. They are proving to be great role models for the rest of the school.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 8:48pm
To start our History topic of Remembrance, we recapped on our prior learning in History so far.
We worked in groups to create a timeline of personal events and those we have studied from Year 1. We ordered them from the earliest to the most recent.
We discussed that although it seems a long time age since we started school, it was the most recent event as it only happened 2 years ago.
As our next topic is based on the events of World War I, we looked at where that will fit in on the timeline.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 5:33pm
This week, we have explored parts and wholes using part-whole models. We have experimented with physical objects, drawing pictures and placing counters on the part-whole model. We have been using STEM sentences to decribe what we have been doing and to describe the parts and wholes in a variety of ways.
Year 3- What makes a role model?
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:58pm
In R.E we have been looking what makes a good role model. We thought about who our role models are at school, home, clubs or in the wider world. After this, we discussed what qualities or characteristics role models demonstrate.
Year 3- Take a look at our pillows!
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:55pm
We finally finished our pillows! We took time and care in firstly creating the degin on out pillows and attaching decorations. We then had to stuff and sew the pillows. Once we finished we evialuated them based on their appearence, joining techniques and their purpose.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:54pm
Our first journey for this half term is writing a character description. Before we begin to plan and write our own, we explored lots of different character descriptions from Roald Dahl's books including: The BFG, Miss Trunchball, Fantastic Mr Fox and Grandma in George's Marvellous medicine. We carefully searched for adjectives and adverbs and recorded them in a grid so we can magpie some idea's for our own and some descriptions even included similes!
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:52pm
This half term, Year 2 are learning about Remembrance. Before, remembrance day we are creating poppy art from observational drawings. We followed a video and different pictures to draw our own poppy then we carefully painted them the correct colours. When they are dry we will cut them out and stick them onto a black and white picture of Blackpool during the war.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:49pm
This week, it was the beginning of Elm's turn to read with Mr Vincent and Bailey. Throughout, the half term different children will take it in turns to read to Bailey as well as enjoying stories shared by Mr Vincent to the whole class. This week, we enjoyed a story about a puppy who kept forgetting his name and we compared it to a story we have previously read 'Mog the forgetful cat'. The winners of reader of the week were Stevie and Joshua for excellent sounding out and expression for speech. Before Bailey went home we enjoyed blowing some bubbles for her to catch.
Year 6 - Sketching and Water Colour
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:45pm
In preparation for our Poppy Art next week, we practised drawing, sketching and shading techniques using a variety of pencils. We also experimented with water colours.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:38pm
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:12pm
Today we started our Storytelling through Drawing pathway. We research by ourselves using our digital literacy skills on the laptops about two illustrators called Laura Carlin and Shaun Tan. We then used all the research we found to make visual notes about one of the artists in our sketchbook.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 12:44pm
We have been exploring the parachute in nursery. This is a great way to support physical development and build realtionships with each other. We are starting with simple games to learn how to use the parachute and we will slowly intorduce more games.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 12:29pm
Today was the first of our three Forest School sessions this half term. It was a wet and cold morning but we thoroughly enjoyed our session! We began our session by looking at lines and shapes in nature. We then looked at artwork by Andy Goldsworthy, before exploring and creating our own natural artwork.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 11:28am
Nursery have a had a very spooky time this week. We have had lots of halloween activities to support our social and emotional development, our communication and language and physical development. The children have been mixing their own potions, exploring how to get halloween objects out of ice and counting legs on spiders. There have also been some very messy activities that have encouraged the chidlren to talk about what they can see, smell and feel.
Date: 1st Nov 2023 @ 8:57pm
Reception have been practicing recognising numbers 1-10,matching objects to its cardinal value and putting them in the correct order. We have also been making AB repeated patterns using spooky objects.
Date: 1st Nov 2023 @ 8:47pm
The children in Reception were lucky enough to use our Now Press play head phones and go on a virtual adventure. The children listened carefully and followed the narrators instructions as they became the character of Little Red Riding Hood. They made cakes for Grandma, went for a walk trhough the forest and even met the big bad wolf. All the children demonstrated excellent listening skills.
Date: 31st Oct 2023 @ 9:34pm
As part of our journey into 'Materials and their Properties', we have been learning about the 'fire triangle' - which explains that a fire needs fuel, oxygen and heat. In today's lesson, we conducted an experiment to show that oxygen is needed for a fire to burn. We timed how long a candle would burn when trapped inside different size glasses. We predicted that the flame would burn for longer in the biggest glass because there was more oxygen.
Date: 30th Oct 2023 @ 9:15pm
As part of our journey into multiplication and division, we have been learning about multiples and factors of numbers. In this lesson, after working together as a class to find factors of 16 and 20, pupils worked in a small group to find all of the factors of 12. We used the cubes to make arrays, which helped us. The factors of 12 are: 1, 3, 4, 6 and 12.
Date: 30th Oct 2023 @ 8:40pm
This half term, we are doing Gymnastics during our in school PE lesson with Miss Crystal and Miss Bates. During our first lesson, after a stretching warm up, we focused on how to safely complete a jump and we recapped previous jumps we have learned such as a star jump. Today, we looked at a straddle jump, pike jump and half turn.
Year 4- Laurel's Reading Champions
Date: 30th Oct 2023 @ 7:54pm
Well done to the first Reading Champions in Laurel Class! They have been reading at home at least 3 times a week and accessed Reading Plus for at least 30 minutes. We are excited to see who our next Reading Champions will be.
Date: 30th Oct 2023 @ 7:02pm
In todays lesson we explored what an object is and what materials are. Working together, we explored our classroom and school environment to find and name different materials. We shared our own experiences and knowledge of materials and where we have found them.
