Blog by Kate Leyland

We've loved the author visits we've had at our school during the past couple of years organised by Elaine Silverwood so this year we decided to take our Year 6 leavers to her bookshop Book Bean and Ice Cream in Kirkham in order for them to select their own book choices for their end of year…

Many children from KS2 had an amazing time on Friday night performing at Sing Together for a huge audience in Blackburn. 
The children did an absolutely amazing job of performing the songs we have been practicing with passion and professionalism. We all had a super fun time and took it as a…

Last Wednesday a fantastic group of girls from year 3 and 4 went to Garstang Academy to play handball against other small schools in the area. 

The team worked wonderfully together and we came a close second place in our games! Well done team!

Fire Officers from Lancashire Fire and Rescue came to visit Year 6 earlier this week. They spoke to us about rules of the road including acts of law such as those around seat belts and booster seats, they also emphasised the need for visibility when out and about on the road whether as a…

We were very excited in Upper School to accept the challenge proposed by Reverend Paul to decorate one of St Peter's Church windowsills for the Christmas services. We went down to Church and looked at the space we had, measuring it so that we knew what we had to work with and then we went to…

Our Sports Coach Corey told us that his Sports Foundation Fleetwood Town were supporting lonely people this Christmas, our Middle School pupils decided to create their own Christmas cards to let others know that they aren't alone this Christmas. Corey was over the moon with our pupils'…

This half term we will be learning all about the Spanish artist Joan Miro. Today we started looking at the shapes and colours in Miro's paintings and then used vision frames to select a part of one of his artworks to recreate in pencil and felt tip pen.

As part of our drive to pass on our love of reading to the youngest children in our school, we, the oldest class in the school became their Book Buddies. It was great fun to choose and read our old favourites in picture books again and use our voices to imitate the characters and build suspence…

As part of our RE unit this half term, 'Why is the church a special place for Christians?' Revd Paul invited us to visit him at St. Peter's Church. It was a lovely sunny day and our walk down through the village was enlivened by a cat who walked in front of us all the way down from our school…

A tractor run has been organised for this Friday evening in memory of local boy Charlie Robinson. 

In support of this event, the children in Upper School helped to decorate the tree at the bottom of the school drive with ribbons.

We hope they raise lots more money for the Brain Tumour…

We're learning about Special Places in RE this half term. Moses spoke to God in the tent (Tabernacle) he built, we read the story of this in the Bible  in Numbers 7:89. Today we have  started to create our own Prayer Tent; the children draped fabric over a play tent we had, in order to make it a…