16 May

Y1 Authors! -sharing the stories they had written

We had written our own version of ‘The Enormous Turnip’ for example ‘The Mega Carrot’. We read them to our buddies. The Year 6’s also read ‘ The Enormous Turnip’ to us but in French !!

15 May

This year’s Shakespeare’s play is revealed!

After much discussion and anticipation, this year’s Shakespeare play was finally revealed today. We began by acting out what life might have been like on a ship sailing the Mediterranean when a storm suddenly began to overwhelm it, casting the crew and passengers onto a seemingly deserted island. 

5 May

Indoor Athletics League Champions 2023

Scotforth St Paul’s are Indoor Athletics League Champions! What a fantastic season! What a fantastic team! I am so proud to see the resilience, the team work and the commitment all season. 
Thank you to Lancaster and Morecambe College for being wonderful hosts. Thank you to our amazing parents…

3 May

Cross-curricular orienteering

Year 6 combined SPAG revision with orienteering skills today as they worked on our recently installed new orienteering course. They had to use a map to find their way to specific control points before answering  SPAG question at each one. what a fun and healthy way to revise for SATs!


19 Apr

“Facing The Past” slave trade trail

The sun shone for Year 6 today as they walked down to the Maritime Museum to take part in the slave trade trail developed by “Facing The Past” and some local teachers - including our very own Mrs Walsh.

Once we arrived at the Maritime Museum, we met our guide, Eleanor, who lead us round some of…

29 Mar

Happy Easter!

In RE we have been finding out more about who Jesus is, including learning about some of the different names used for Jesus either in the Bible or by Christians generally. We used these names to create our stunning Easter cards.


 

29 Mar

Bikeability

Everyone inYear 6 has had the opportunity to take part in Bikeability training this week, making sure we have the knowledge and experience to ride our bikes on the road safely for ourselves and other road users. This involved two full days of practice with instructors from Go Velo. We began on the…

18 Mar

Investigating chocolate production - is it fair?

As the culmination of their geography work on world trade, Year 6 used all their knowledge to help them understand the supply chain involved in chocolate production. They were shocked to find that from the £1 retail price of a bar of chocolate, the cocoa farmers in Ghana only receive 8p! Through…

7 Mar

Eco group go tree planting

What a glorious day for planting trees! The Eco-group donned their wellies and gardening gloves this afternoon and went down to the school field with their spades and trowels. Hilary from the Friends of Dorrington Woods joined us there to show us how to plant different types of saplings - potted…

6 Mar

Sharing books over a cup of hot chocolate!

To celebrate World Book Day, Year 5 and 6 got together this afternoon to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate (other drinks were available!) and a pastry.  It wasn't just about food and drink though - we each chose a favourite book to write a review of and shared these with the other children on our…

6 Mar

World Book Day- The Day the Crayons Quit! En français... Rébellion chez les crayons !

Bonjour mes amis!

Today across school, the children have been celebrating World Book Day by sharing Drew Daywalt's wonderful story- The Day the Crayons Quit.

In Year 6, we wrote letters back to the crayons persuading them to return to us by telling them how much we loved each colour and by…