Blog by Jo Hurley

We started our new Science topic this week- Lifecycles, Living Things and Humans. 
 

We started off the topic by looking at the life cycle of plants and flowers. We looked particularly at the reproduction of plants through pollination. 
The children got the opportunity to dissect flower heads…

This morning the children learnt to write news reports through inferring characters’ feeling from the story we are studying ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy.

We used drama techniques such as hot seating a character and role playing reporter and interviewee conversations and making…

For the last 6 weeks, Upper School have been enjoying rehearsing four songs that were written by the Sing Together team. Instead of a live concert performance this year, this week we recorded videos of the four songs and have sent them to be collated into a concert video with 40 other local…

As you know, Lower School and Middle School are having a classroom swap over and while that all happens I have been teaching the children in the hall. The theme of our two days together is Superheroes and we began the day by exploring what a superhero is or can be. We read the wonderful story of…

As you know, Lower School and Middle School are having a classroom swap over and while that all happens I have been teaching the children in the hall. The theme of our two days together is Superheroes and we began the day by exploring what a superhero is or can be. We read the wonderful story of…

This morning the Year 5s were set a challenge to work out what each letter stood for in the list of number sentences given to them on the whiteboard. 
through the use of their knowledge of the times tables and logical thinking, they worked brilliantly to work it out. Can you work them out?

Mrs…

Over the past half term, the children have been carrying out a project on Flowers in our Art lessons. 
Today saw the conclusion of our wire sculpture work which has now been added to our paper flowers display and the children continued their project by going into the school grounds to observe and…

The sun finally shone for our invertebrates survey this afternoon around the school grounds. 
The children worked in groups of three to investigate a particular micro-habitat and used a pocket ID book to work out what sort of invertebrate they had found. There were lots of flies and bees out…

The children in Middle and Upper School are taking part in a virtual ‘Sing Together’ performance this term as it has not been possible to join the other schools from around Lancashire for a real concert at King George’s Hall as we normally do. Instead, we are learning four songs and will be video…

The children in Middle and Upper School are taking part in a virtual ‘Sing Together’ performance this term as it has not been possible to join the other schools from around Lancashire for a real concert at King George’s Hall as we normally do. Instead, we are learning four songs and will be video…

The children in Year 5/6 completed their paper flowers which are now on display in the classroom. To follow on from this, we began designing and making wire sculptures of flowers. 
It was really fiddly but really rewarding when we could start to see the flower shapes coming together. 
 

Mrs…

Some of the children in KS2 came into school in their scouts or brownies uniform today in celebration of St George’s Day -the English Patron Saint.
Legend has it that George slew a dragon and we like to think that we have slain our own dragons in school today through perseverance and hard work in…