Cricket in the Sun!
Our Y6 cricket team had a great day out in the Lancaster School Cricket Tournament today. We played with fantastic enthusiasm, team work and effort. In our group stage we won 3 of the 4 games and then played in the semi final against Moorside. The semi was very tight and we narrowly lost. …
Cricket in the sun!
Our Y6 cricket team had a great day out in the Lancaster School Cricket Tournament today. We played with fantastic enthusiasm, team work and effort. In our group stage we won 3 of the 4 games and then played in the semi final against Moorside. The semi was very tight and we narrowly lost. …
Watercolour rainforest flowers
In science, Mrs Dowson has been teaching us all about plants and their lifecycles and in geography we are learning all about plants of the rainforest and how they survive. Today we drew and painted some hibiscus flowers using watercolour pencils. We really enjoyed mixing colours and seeing how…
Rainforest Art in Year 3
This term we are learning all about tropical rainforests and in our art lessons have been practising making shades and tints of colours. We have been mixing lots of different greens. We will be using these in a rainforest collage later this term.
Year 5&6 go to see Peter and the Wolf
Today Year 5&6 went to the Lancaster Town Hall to watch a performance of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev. It told the story of a boy called Peter and his encounter with a wolf. Each of the characters had different instruments representing them. The flutes were birds, the oboe was a duck and the…
Year 5&6 Peter and the Wolf trip
Today Year 5&6 went to the Lancaster Town Hall to watch a performance of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev. It told the story of a boy called Peter and his encounter with a wolf. Each of the characters had different instruments representing them. The flutes were birds, the oboe was a duck and the…
Sounds and sights of the rainforest!
Today we started our new geography topic - Wonders of the Rainforest! We listened to the sound of a tropical rainforest and drew what we could hear or imagine. We then wrote down our ideas about rainforests and what we already know. We are looking forward to learning lots…
Developing texture vocabulary for our nature poems
We continued our exploration of nature today by doing a texture touching challenge of natural things in the school grounds. We used words like rough, silky, jagged, downy and serrated to describe the things we felt. We will use some of these words in our nature poems.
Investigating Dorrington Woods! (Y3)
In English, we are reading the book "The Lost Words" which is full of poems about nature nouns like bluebells and conkers. Today we investigated Dorrington Woods to find some nature nouns of our own. Even on the walk there we were amazed by the way that plants and animals can thrive in really…
Sharing our Stone Age stories with Year 1
In Year 3 we have been writing our own stories based on the class reader, Stone Age Boy. After showing them our Stone Age dance, we read our stories to the Year One children. They seemed to really enjoy them!
Year 3 Stone Age Dance
We have been developing a dance based on our topic of the Stone Age. Today we showed it to Mrs Boyle and the Y1 class. They really enjoyed it and we hope you will too.
Making our Moving Toys
After learning about and investigating the power of air (pneumatics!), this week we finally planned and made our moving toys. We investigated different ways to use balloons, pipes and syringes to create movement and then came the challenging, fun and messy(!) part…we got to transform cardboard…
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