Blog by Jo Hurley

Ten Upper School children took part in a dodgeball tournament at Garstang Academy yesterday but it was a bit different to normal…it was in the dark! The dodgeballs were glow in the dark so they could be seen and we made sure we wore our white PE kits so we would glow too! The children had great…

Upper School enjoyed investigating different types of circuits in our Science lesson this week. They were given tasks on each table to explore including, trying to make a light bulb glow brighter or making a switch out of paperclips. This work will lead us onto more technical work such as drawing…

In this week’s gymnastics lesson, the class took their previous learning about matched and mirrored balances onto the large apparatus. The focus was to be able to travel in a gymnastic style onto the equipment and create a balance that had strength and stillness to it. This is harder than you…

In our first lesson of gymnastics, the children firstly worked in pairs to create a matched and a mirrored balance using examples on pictures around the hall. They learnt to hold still their balances for at least 3 seconds and to use a stretched, taut body. A lot of the next part of the lesson was…

We really enjoyed our second Let’s Go Sing rehearsal with Gaynor yesterday! She taught us some fun warm up songs and we loved learning the new dance moves and Makaton signs for the next set of concert songs. Don’t forget to go online and continue learning the words at home!  
 

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As part of our PSHE work, the Upper School Class have set themselves challenges to achieve something or get better at something this half term. This could be sport related or mental health related. Oliver enjoys using his Rubik’s Cubes to help him overcome difficult situations and last week he…

We have started reading a new novel in our English lessons. It is call The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf. It is all about a new pupil who joins the class under mysterious circumstances and he doesn’t seem to be able to speak. The narrator of the story is one of the pupils and tries…

It was wet, it was cold, it was very, very muddy but 9 of our fantastic Y5 and 6 children took part in a cross country race at Garstang Community Academy with enthusiasm and determination. The boys’ race was first and after two gruelling laps of the school field completed, Leo came in at a very…

The Upper School children finished this half term’s English by organising themselves into groups to create, rehearse and perform their own role plays of significant events from the book Street Child. There were scenes from the workhouse, from the time Jim spent on the coal lighter, a scene showing…

Here are a few more pictures of our visit to the Mill...

What a fantastic visit Y5/6 had to Quarry Bank Mill! We started off in the Apprentice Mill Workers’ House where we found out about the food they were given, the work they did, how long their working day was and where they slept. The children were all very knowledgeable about what life was like for…

Well done to Daniel and Tommy who won the Y5/6 Handwriting Competition this week! It was a very difficult decision as there were lots of pieces of excellent handwriting but these two just had to be the winners with their beautiful joined up writing and consistent letter formations.