Blog by Jo Hurley

As part of our RE topic about Faith, the Upper School children visited St Peter’s Church in the village to meet the vicar, Rev. Paul, and to find out about how local people show their faith in God. 
We looked around the church to find examples of people of faith and there were many! The stain…

Today the children in Y5/6 explored how the early followers of Jesus put their faith into action. We read three stories from the Acts of the Apostles which showed different ways in which they showed their faith in God. The children discussed these events and put them into their own role plays and…

Today the Year 4s and 5s got a taste of things to come as they spent the day being the new Year 5/6. They completed a poetry activity and a maths activity in the morning and then did some art, archery and a circle time session in the afternoon. The class worked really well together and produced…

The Year 5 and 6s have worked so hard these past few weeks to learn and rehearse their end of year play-Frankie & Me. It’s all coming together now and we had our first audience today-Corey! He smiled and laughed his way through the performance and gave it 9/10 at the end. We can’t wait to perform…

This morning the Upper School class took part in a debate to decide who was responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet. The children were already in two groups- the feuding families-the Montagues and the Capulets and they had already prepared their arguments last week. Now all they had to do…

Upper School have been reading and studying Romeo and Juliet in our English lessons. This week we finished the play and discussed the themes that run through the plot. The children then divided into two groups, the Montagues and the Capulets. The objective was to prepare arguments for who was to…

It was wonderful to be able to take 19 children from Y5/6 to Garstang Academy  to take part in a rounders tournament with several other small schools in the area. So many children signed up that I had to put them into two teams to take part! The first match was against each other which actually…

This week, Upper school have been given Kindness Activity Packs by Corey, our sports coach. Each day they have been filling them in and thinking about what kindness means and how we can show it towards other people. I have noticed that the children in my class really look out for one another…

This week, in preparation for our class production of Frankie and Me, the children designed and made programmes for the audiences who will be attending the show. This was more difficult than they thought it would be as there was no room for mistakes here! The writing needed to be clear and…

We began a new topic in English this week-Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare! The children are already enjoying reading the script and as part of our lesson on Wednesday, the class rehearsed either act 1, scene 1 where the Montagues and Capulets fight in the streets or Act 1, scene 3 where…

In our Science lesson this week, the children completed their Classifying Living Things topic by taking part in a field study of the school grounds. They took clip boards and species lists outside and identified as many of the animals and plants we have in our school fields. After the children had…

On Wednesday 7th June, 12 children from Upper School went along to Garstang Academy to take part in a small schools netball competition. They play in two teams of 5 with two subs who swapped onto the pitch for each new game. 8 brilliant, 5 minute games were played on three courts and the children…