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We tried to guess what might be inside the pumpkin. We had excellent guesses including juice and seeds,

This week we have been exploring what Autumn is. We went on an adventure to see what signs of autumn we could see around school. We found conkers, lots of different coloured leaves, mushrooms and some pine cones. 

Today Year 6 had great fun playing with plasticine! They had to predict which shapes would be most streamline and therefore fall to the bottom of a measuring cylinder fastest. They explored how to create more water resistance and slow down the speed at which the shapes sank to the bottom. They…

The Worship Team took the Harvest gifts to The Olive Branch on Friday. They helped to sort the food into different categories and found out what happens to it next. The represented the school fantastically. 

October celebrates Black History Month, so today Year 5 took part in the online assembly that lots of schools across the country also joined. We discussed the theme of ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’.

The children have been fascinated by the number of leaves collecting on our playground. We made our own tree using things we had found in the playground. We learnt some new vocabulary, trunk, branches, sticks and leaves. 

Year 6 were set the challenge of designing a parachute which would provide the slowest and safest descent for our 'person'. They could change the size of parachute, the material it was made from or the string length before carrying out a fair test, keeping all other variables the same. Once the…

Some of our Year 5 and 6 boys spent the day at Lancaster and Morecambe College, taking part in the inter schools tournament. We tried hard in the group stages but we didn’t make it further than the first of the knock- out rounds ( where we narrowly lost 1-0 to Grosvenor Park). Well done to all the…

This afternoon, Year 4 went for a walk around the local area searching for different human and physical features of Geography. We considered which places might be considered as local landmarks, and made notes to help us when we make our own OS maps of the area. Unfortunately, the fish and chip…

This week we are looking at Harvest. We have been looking at where our food comes from and why we are thankful to God.p for his amazing creation.  We even tasted the, and have been looking at our chopping skills. 

Year 6 took their maths lesson out into the sunshine this morning. Before looking at formal written methods of addition and subtraction next week, we reminded ourselves of mental strategies and jottings we can use to help us solve problems. We worked in pairs to have a go at some examples. 

In preparation for writing our story next week, we took part in a virtual children’s author workshop with Mikey Please. He told us all about the process of writing a children’s book and showed us lots of his illustrations. It was interesting to see the different stages it takes to write and…