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Today we had our grown ups come into our Reception classroom. They came to our Reading Cafe and read us a story. We had so much fun and loved listening to lots of different stories. 

Our display in class is helping us to remember the different stages of the water cycle for when we write our explanation text.

Year 6 have been learning how to make pastry - the final one of the cooking and baking skills they have learned throughout their time at Scotforth.

Year 6 are currently learning about life in Britain during WW2. Today we focussed on what life was like for children who had been evacuated from cities and sent to live in the countryside. Using evidence from actual WW2 evacuees, we each took on the role of an evacuee and shared our experiences…

In DT have been practising the skills that we need to make sandwiches. Today we practised spreading margarine and ate a slice of bread, butter and honey that we made ourselves!  We also used the bridge hold and the fork hold when we were cutting vegetables with sharp knives. We even used the…

We have enjoyed celebrating with Alfie this week as he rings the bell completing his treatment!

We are learning about the water cycle so today we drew a flow chart on a food bag. We are going to put water into them and watch the different stages of the water cycle happen in the bag. 

This half term we have been looking at lots of different toys. Toys that we used to play in the past when we were babies and toys we play with now. The children have made some amazing toys this week, crocodile, butterflies, rockets, castles, people figures and many more. 

As part of our new English topic, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, we have learn the beginning of Robert Browning's poem.  We hope you enjoy it!

Today in science we had a look at the difference between voltage and current. We tried testing buzzers, bulbs and motors to see if their output energy changed depending on the voltage from the batteries.

We followed all of the instructions very carefully to make our fruit smoothie. Mrs Walsh enjoyed it and we have now made our own recipe. 
 

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…