School life blog

On Monday 8^th January, the pupils, staff and governors of Scotforth St Paul’s CE Primary and Nursery School and invited guests joined together to celebrate the completion of their recent building project. The extensive alterations, which have taken over eighteen months to complete - and even…

Year 6 braved the weather this afternoon to visit Ashton Manor to sing carols to the residents. Both the children and the residents enjoyed themselves, and there was even a surprise visit from Father Christmas who brought us some delicious cookies and drinks as we chatted after our singing.

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Mrs Helen Bowden from Lancaster Music Centre joined us for a special Music Assembly today. Look out for information about the Centre in this week’s newsletter.

The children who attended Pupil Parliament wanted to share what they learnt with other children across school. On Wednesday, they led a lunchtime club - Abilities Club - with Year 2s to share information about visual disabilities, communication difficulties, deafness and autism. Through games and…

Year 6 are currently learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the…

The Eco group managed to avoid the rain today and went out at lunchtime to check up on the trees we planted around the edge of the school field last year. With the help of Hilary from the Friends of Dorrington Woods, we learnt how to take off the tree guards and check if the saplings were still…

What a day! This afternoon we spent the time thinking about our well-being. With so many activities on offer, it was hard to choose which ones would help us be happy and calm. Thank you to all the staff, governors and parents for organising and supervising the activities.

Today we celebrated National Poetry Day with a visit from the poet Tony Peek. He shared lots of his poems and stories at a whole school assembly this morning and then visited each class for a workshop during the day. He read from his books and then we wrote lots of different poems using…

Well done to the children who represented Scotforth St Paul’s this week. We made it to the semi-finals! 
Thank you to our wonderful parents for your support. 

We all took part in our annual sports morning. The children were fantastic and competed brilliantly. We also saw some pre-schoolers racing and my all time favourite… the Mums/Dads and Grandparents race! 
Well done to Castle Reds who won

Well done to the girls’ that represented Scotforth at the local Lancaster Girls’ Football Tournament. We got to the final and .... WON!!!