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Today we had a look in the prayer “chatterbox.” The children know that I invite them to talk to God when we are praying. Inside the box were prayer books, a candle and prayer beads. The children handled each object carefully.

Year 6 had a long but interesting day today on their visit to County Hall. We began bright and early by walking down to the station and catching the train to Preston. As part of this term’s Citizenship activities, we spent the morning with Mr. Mynott, who took us into Lancashire County Council’s…

In the White Rose Maths Scheme there is a tortoise called Tiny who unfortunately, often gets things wrong. Today Year 4 had a visit from a tortoise called Tortelli. Hopefully he’s much better at maths!

We had lots of fun at the Key Stage Two Sports Day. Have a look at all our action shots!

Today in Science we have been learning how to find and count our pulse rate in 4 different places on our body. 
We then went outside to investigate how our pulse rate changes during and straight after exercising. 

We made our passports and boarding passes ready to board the flight to Australia. We were lucky as we only had a little turbulence on our flight! We got there in record time and explored the landmarks, animals and objects of Australia.
Thank you to our wonderful parents for bringing in lots of…

This week we have been carrying out debates. In groups, we have researched facts about different topics such as homework, watching television, PE in schools and uniform. We have used persuasive language to argue for or against each topic. The rest of the class then had to vote for the most…

This morning, Year 3 took part in a workshop all about Ancient Egypt. We learnt about the social pyramid, made a timeline of the different ages of Ancient Egypt, learnt about different Pharaohs, handled artefacts and mummified a Pharaoh. It was fantastic and we all really enjoyed…

Year 6 had a busy day visiting some key locations in the city to bring their work on the history of Lancaster to life. We walked from school into the city centre, passing the old Victorian railway station near what is now the hospital, and White Cross Mill, which was owned by the locally…

Well done to the netball team who played in their first ever netball tournament! They represented the school well displaying super team work and supporting each other throughout. Well done ! 

Year 4 learnt all about rivers last term, but today they had the chance to take a journey down the River Lune, from its source at Newbiggin-on-Lune in Cumbria all the way down to the estuary beyond Glasson Dock. We started off at St. Helen's Well where we were surprised to find very little water…

We had a lots of fun today using different instruments to create our own Samba Bamba band and we certainly got into the groove dancing to the music.