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We having been looking at how everyone is special no matter what. 

Bishop Phillip set himself the challenge of visiting every Deanery in Blackburn Diocese on his bike. He stopped in at Scotforth St Paul's Church where some of the Worship team were there to greet him, listen to a short message and wave him off on his journey. By the end of the day he will have…

October is Black History Month, we have been learning about people who have influenced others through sport, arts, actions or their work. We have learnt so much about the good deeds of others.

We have been practising our times tables and learning about factors. We have created a display to help us remember what a factor is. 

This afternoon, we were drawing a picture of Ludgate for our 3D Great Fire of London art piece. We used rulers to make our lines straight and accurate. Everyone did a really good job!

We tried to guess what might be inside the pumpkin. We had excellent guesses including juice and seeds,

This week we have been exploring what Autumn is. We went on an adventure to see what signs of autumn we could see around school. We found conkers, lots of different coloured leaves, mushrooms and some pine cones. 

Today Year 6 had great fun playing with plasticine! They had to predict which shapes would be most streamline and therefore fall to the bottom of a measuring cylinder fastest. They explored how to create more water resistance and slow down the speed at which the shapes sank to the bottom. They…

The Worship Team took the Harvest gifts to The Olive Branch on Friday. They helped to sort the food into different categories and found out what happens to it next. The represented the school fantastically. 

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…