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Year 6 Remembrance Day preparation
Date: 8th Nov 2022 @ 9:03pm
In Preparation for Remembrance Day on Friday, we have spent time this week making our poppies for our Remembrance Garden. We have also completed our piece of art work that links with the art we do in Yer 6. We have created large scale poppies and used a range of pictures to build up light and dark areas on the poppy.
Date: 8th Nov 2022 @ 4:08pm
Well done to the girls who played their first match against Devonshire this yesterday. They didn't win but they worked hard and showed great resilience 
Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 9:27pm
Over the last few months, our aspiring young gardners have been meeting each week, after school, to prepare the school grounds for Winter and planting bulbs ready for Spring.
Mrs McAllister and her young gardners have been clearing away the dead flowers fron summer, recycling the seeds from the sunflower heads in our Nursery garden and planting Spring bulbs across school.
Now most of the jobs have been done for the year, we look forward to meeting with Gardening Club again in Spring.
Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 9:03pm
Remember, remember the 5th November...Reception have been talking about Bonfire Night, fireworks and keeping safe on this exciting time of year!
We made firework pictures using loose parts, collaged rocket fireworks and created a finger painting bonfire picture. How to keep safe was discussed by the children and reinforced by roleplaying outside.
"An adult must light a firework" Harper
"Stand back- don't go near a firework you could get burned". Lennox
"Don't touch sparklers - they burn" Halleigh
Year 5/6 Girls' Football: Boundary vs Devonshire
Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 7:29pm
Today, girls from Year 5 and 6 participated in their first ever football match. They did so well and kept going - they never gave up and showed so much determination and resilience. We're looking forward to more matches over the coming months and watching the girls become more confident. Go team Boundary!!
Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 4:16pm
This half term, Year 2 are lucky to have Mr Williams supporting us in PE. Over the last two weeks, we have been practising our hopping and jumping skills in a circuit of activities including hopscotch, hopping over the stepping stones and skipping. Although, we have found some of these skills difficult- in particular the skipping- the children have worked incredibly hard and have began to see some great progress. Some children who couldn't skip at the start are now beginning to skip steps at a time and getting faster. We are looking forward to the next 5 weeks, kepe up the good work Year 2!
Year 4 Teeth Observation RESULTS!
Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 2:36pm
The results are in!!
The coke and orange juice caused the worst staining. If this was our teeth they would have gone through our enamel and caused decay. Even though, diet coke is low sugar it still caused a stain. This could be because of the dark colour it is. Today, we also spoke about the importance of brushing our teeth twice a day. We know what eating a balanced diet means, but it is important to brush away the foods and drinks we eat at the end of the day and before the day starts. We need to clean bacteria etc away so it doesn't stain our teeth or cause cavities or decaying. When we have finished brushing our teeth, we shouldn't rinse with water because the toothpaste won't then stay on our teeth to continue protecting them.
Date: 6th Nov 2022 @ 11:08am
In the lead up to Remembrance Day on 11th November, Year Two have been creating poppies in Art. We glued two sticks together to create the cross and used our weaving skills to weave red wool through a template. This created a cross on the front and a square on the back, when we removed the cardboard template it created the shape of the poppy. It took a lot of perseverance to ensure we followed the number sequence correctly but everyone did very well!
Year 2 Addition and Subtraction
Date: 6th Nov 2022 @ 11:02am
This week, we have began exploring addition and subtraction when you have to cross into another ten. To master the skill, we used concrete resources- Base 10- to practise exchanging ten ones for one ten when adding and exchanging one ten for ten ones when subtracting. To help us to grasp the concept of exchanging through our role play of shop keepers and ensuring you exchange for the same amount. These practical activities really helped us apply our knowledge to more abstract questions.
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 4:19pm
As we get closer to Remembrance Day Year Three have been using charcoal to draw poppies. We experimented with water colours, oil pastels and felt tips to create the red poppies.
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 4:08pm
This week in Year Three we had our first rugby session with Wigan Warriors. The children enjoyed learning how to learn how to hold the ball properly and dodging their opponents. We also worked well as a team playing a wide range of games and look forward to learn new skills in the coming weeks.
Year 4 Science Observation Set Up
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 11:48am
Today we set up a Science observation ready for our lesson on Monday. We used eggs to act like our teeth (the shell acting like the enamel of our teeth). We poured milk, orange juice, coffee, diet coke, water and full fat coke into cups with the eggs instead. We are going to leave them over the weekend and see what changes there are on Monday in our Science lesson. Check back on Monday for the results!
Reception - Reading and Writing
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 8:36pm
Reception have been working hard to ensure that they form their letters correctly. This week we have been practicing the letters a and d, using our letter rhymes to ensure we use an anticlockwise movement. The children have been practicing regularly as part of our daily challenges as well as completing loads of different task in continuous provison.
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 7:36pm
This week we began to explore the term part and whole. We worked practically to investigate how to identify a whole number and split it into different parts. We realised that we could split the whole number into two (or more) different parts and that these can be shown either way around, e.g. 3 and 4 make the same whole as 4 and 3. We have also continued to complete place value and number activities in our provision to support our knowledge of numbers!
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 6:44pm
Today we enjoyed our first forest school session in Year 1! This week our learning was based around birds. We made birds nests, pretended to be birds to play a game collecting seeds and looked at pictures of birds eggs. Throughout the session, we also made two different types of bird feaders, created mud masterpieces in the mud kitchen and enjoyed having some time outdoors in the sunshine!
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 2:03pm
Today we have listened again to the Ghost Parade track and kept time to the beat by moving our bodies. We then used the percussion and xylophones to play a short melody before we began improvising our own patterns using CGE. We also began to learn some of the vocabulary for musical transcription, including sharpes, flats, stave, treble clef and time signature. Next week we will continue to develop our compositions!
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 1:54pm
Today we have studied poppies and use our observational drawing skills to draw poppies, shading them with pencil crayons carefully. The aim is that we make a repeating pattern that can be used as part of our Remembrance display Soldier. We have taken great care and concentrated, whilst listening to music that would typically be played and performed at the cenotaph, including Abide with me and Elgar's Nimrod played by the orchestra. This allowed us to reflect on the soldiers who have fought or died for our country.
Date: 2nd Nov 2022 @ 11:37am
Enter Nursery if you dare this week! There have been some very spooky goings on as we celebrated Halloween. We read the story "What's in the Witch's Kitchen" and turned our homecorner in to a witches kitchen - eye ball soup anyone? The children developed their fine motor skills by hammering witches fingers in the a pumpkin and practised counting by sticking legs on to a spider. It's been a very creepy week!
Nursery Have Fun at Forest School
Date: 2nd Nov 2022 @ 11:29am
Nursery had a wonderful time during their Forest School session. They were not put off by the rain and explored the mud kitchen, played some games, hunted for autumn leaves and listened to a story. The children enjoyed their time exploring outdoors and we can't wait for our next session.
Date: 1st Nov 2022 @ 1:57pm
This year we are really focusing on our handwriting. This afternoon we did some activities to help support our handwriting practise. Please encourage your children to practise at home too. After we went over some tricky letter formations, we wrote a poem for Remembrance Day for our Year 4 display.
Date: 1st Nov 2022 @ 12:37pm
Thank you to the parents and carers who attended the forum this morning. The focus was SMSC and we explored how we develop this across school. We have lots of fresh ideas for trips, visitors, clubs and general experiences for the children within school. The next meeting will be held in the new year - please look out for the date on the website and our Facebook page.
Date: 31st Oct 2022 @ 10:09pm
Today the children have enjoyed taking part in lots of halloween activities. They enjoyed counting out spooky objects and ordering numbers, making repeated patterns with scary objects, creating their own potions, carving pumpkins, collaging bats and pumpkins, role playing in the witches kitchen and even using our phonics to sound out spooky words. We have been talking about different family traditions and discussed how different families celebrate in a range of ways. The children have had a fantastic time. Have a look at our wonderful learning.
Date: 31st Oct 2022 @ 6:22pm
Today, we began the start of our new half term by enjoying a DT day!
Firstly, we looked at existing products to explore the different mechanisms and moving parts in a range of picture books. We talked about how the moving part moves, how it works and what effect it has.
We then began to make two prototypes, a lever and a slider. We linked each mechanism to a story to create a moving picture for each. We all talked through the safety points and watched our teachers make an example, reading through the instructions together and spotting where they went wrong! We then each had a turn to follow the instructions, read them carefully and make our two prototypes.
We verbally evaluated our desgins, talking about what had gone well and what we could improve next time.
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 3:37pm
Today, we turned our designs into actual puppets that we could play with. We used our previously practiced skills to thread and knot the needle before beginning a running stitch. To finish them off, we cut different materials including felt, pipe cleaners and buttons to design our animal and add their features. Whilst making the products we had to display a variety of characteristics including: resilience, perseverance and patience.
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 12:53pm
Today, we completed our fantasy setting descriptions. Here are some examples of the children's fantastic writing! This is the setting they were describing: https://www.literacyshed.com/draculas-whitby.html
