Blog by Penny Kemp

We have had a very special day today, a delicious Christmas dinner cooked by Mrs Billington, our Lower School Christmas party and then a visit from Father Christmas with presents for all the children in his sack! 
 

Merry Christmas to all our fantastic families in Lower School, thank you for all your support this term!

Here are the children’s beautiful collages Christmas Tree cards they have made for their families this year. Take a look at the previous blog post to see how the children created their…

We have been learning lots of art skills by painting and printing. In preparation for making Christmas tree collages the children firstly learnt how to create a ‘wash’ using paint, painting over wax drawings of snowflakes to create a background winter scene. 
 

Then the children printed with a…

Congratulations to all our fantastic children who performed in our Christmas nativity story this year! We are so proud of all of you.

Here are some photographs of Lower School children …

We have been busy learning how to read and spell our ‘tricky’ words and make sentences up with them in!

A snapshot of our phonics and handwriting learning today …

Our Reception and Year 1 children have been deepening and exploring their understanding of number with some fun, Christmas themed activities this week. 
 

Take a look at these photos …

Our Year 2 children had a visit from Lancashire Fire and Rescue service today and learnt how to keep safe if there is a fire. 

Thank you very much to Scott and Karen for taking the time to visit us!

Our Reception superstars started their six week course learning how to ride balance bikes, strengthening their muscles and improving their balance skills. Take a look at these photos from their first session today. 
 

In our gymnastics lessons the children are learning how to travel in different ways using their hands and feet for support. They have been practicing caterpillar walk, frog jumps into a walk and bunny hops.  They have all been learning how to do a tuck jump as well. 
 

Take a look at this…

Our Reception children have been learning lots of different things in maths recently, measuring, comparing and making patterns. Here are some photographs of the children creating repeating patterns with natural resources outside. 
 

In our Geography lessons we have been learning the names of the seven continents and five oceans of the world. We have been investigating cold places in our quest to decide whether we would prefer to live in a hot or cold place. 
 

Today we learnt where the Equator is and what it means, then…