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We had a visit from Kirsten from Garstang library today where she told us all about the fabulous reading challenge our children can take part in this summer. 

This summer, we challenge you to be a Reading Hero and help Dr Paige Turner stop Captain A. Eye and his parrot, Polygon from hacking…

After a number of lessons our year 1 and 2 children have designed and made their fairground wheels. They practised lots of different skills, reviewed and altered their designs as they went and really enjoyed making them. 
 

Today the PNE staff taught the Upper School class how to use the OZOBOTS programming app on iPads so that they could code their bot to move around obstacles on a table top football pitch. The children picked up the coding skills very quickly and enjoyed experimenting with the programming to get…

We were privileged to be able to have a visit from Rachel and Mhairi from STEM Ambassadors this afternoon. Today’s session was all about setting up an (paper) aeroplane business! 
The children were asked to organise their teams to come up with a plane company and logo first of all. Next they were…

Last week, we had a wonderful trip to the Lakeland Wildlife Oasis. 
The focus of our trip was to consolidate our knowledge about biomes and climates as well as to remind ourselves about our rainforest topic from earlier in the year.

Our morning started by investigating some interesting objects…

At the end of the last half term, middle school combined their learning from geography, science and DT to create a diorama of a biome of their choice.

Children began by choosing one of the world biomes from ice, tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, desert, rainforest or grassland.…

Today Upper School had their first STEM session with the PNE staff in which they were introduced to  Ozobots. These were tiny wheeled robots that were able to follow instructions using special pens.
The class were told to draw an oval shape with black pen on a white piece of paper and then put…

The children have been learning about toys in the past and comparing them to toys that they have today. 

The children in Years 1 and 2 are investigating mechanisms in their design and technology lessons. They are learning how a fairground wheel works. 
 

In our first lesson they investigated wheels and axles. 
 

Today the children in Upper School were introduced to our new topic, Evolution and Adaptation.
We started off by learning what adaptation in nature means for plants and animals.

Next we learned briefly about Charles Darwin’s theory of adaptation after he studied the 16 species of finches on…

Our Year one and two children learnt how to stay safe this afternoon and made a fire plan to how to escape from their bedroom if there is a fire.

This morning was very ‘productive’ as the class did their first read through and decided parts for the end of year production of School Daze. Everyone was so encouraging and supportive of each other which made the process really easy for distributing parts appropriately. After all that hard work,…