School life blog

Term came to a close this afternoon with the whole school going to church for our carol service. Year 6 lead the service, focussing on gifts - especially God’s gift of Jesus to the world at Christmas. They were also helped by a staff band and a signing choir.

This week Year 6 have visited Chirnside House and Ashton Manor care homes to entertain the residents with their carol singing. They also enjoyed chatting to the residents afterwards.

What a fantastic concert today. Our rock stars performed brilliantly and the audience of children and parents were awestruck by the confidence of the children who have been receiving Rock Steady lessons. Well done everyone!

Today, Miss Huddleston took two members of our Worship Team to Clitheroe to the Blackburn Diocesan Children’s Worship Conference. The focus was “Giants of Faith”. We considered famous giants of faith, then thought about how we can be giants of faith ourselves, standing up for justice, praying…

Some children chose a woodland dog walk for one of their mindful activities today. They gave different reasons for their choice - fresh air, exercise, peace and quiet, nature and because they like dogs! Whatever the reason, we had fun walking around the woods, taking turns holding Rosie (the…

For Mindful Monday some children chose to do planting with Miss Walsh. 
Some children chose to plant peas (vegetables) and some children chose to plant sweet peas (flowers)! 

After this, we created some faces using natural resources we could find around us!

Some girls from Year 6 and Year 5 enjoyed an afternoon of sunshine at Lancaster and Morecambe College, taking part in the Girls Football tournament. Our team did really well, winning their pool then progressing to the semi-finals. We ended up in 4th place overall, out of 15 teams. An amazing…

The newly formed Worship Team took the Harvest gifts to the Olive Branch today. They spent some time finding out about the amazing things that the Olive Branch do.

What a great morning we had for the KS2 Sports!  There was loads of resilience, perseverance and of course endurance on show!  It was lovely to see how supportive and encouraging the children were of each other.  Well done everyone - we were really proud of you.  The winners and runners up of the…

Congratulations to all the children who achieved their BLACK Karate reading band this year which meant that they had at least 250 signed reads in their reading record.  58 children in total across the school achieved this!  Well done to you all.  We celebrated this together by having a book trail…

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. …

Today we were really pleased to have Jonny and Abi from NISCU join our special outdoor assembly. This week they have been prayer walking between many of the different school in Morecambe and Lancaster, carrying a lantern to represent the light of Jesus.  They enjoyed our fantastic singing of The…