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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…

Today we used arrow cards to make 3 digit numbers. We played a game in pairs to see who could make the largest number from their arrow cards. It was great fun!

In the Nursery we have been exploring what Autumn is. We have looked for clues outside and found lots of things that have fallen from trees. Today we used our fine motor skills to peg Autumn colours to our photos. Using a pincer grip on pegs can strengthen muscles that are used when holding a…

As part of our graffiti art work we have been looking at the street artist Banksy.  He uses stencils and spray paint to make his images. We designed and created our own stencils based on our initials. This made a ‘tag’ or signature. We then used sponging (Mrs Redmayne wasn’t keen on spray paint!!)…

We drew around our willing volunteer and labelled the part of the body. We even spoke about parts inside our body too e.g. heart, lungs etc.