Blog by Penny Kemp

Our science learning (all about plants) is linked to our English learning this week as the children have planted a bean seed with a plan to take care of it and watch it grow into a bean plant. 

We looked back at our previous learning (see here …

This week we have been reminding ourselves of the tradition tale Jack and The Beanstalk. The children have been collecting and using ambitious vocabulary, acting out the story and retelling it by using puppets and drama.

We have begun to read Jim and The Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs and started…

Our Reception children have been learning about zero this week in their maths learning as well as doing lots of counting. 

As one of their continuous provision activities they have been matching and pairing socks. This activity gave lots of opportunities for maths and practising fine motor…

After discussing ways in which we are going to take greater responsibility and care of our planet this year the children chose to make posters to remind everyone around school how to.

Welcome back to school and to Spring Term 2023, it has been so lovely to see all your lovely children back in school again ready for a fresh term!

After sharing all our news from the holiday break we talked about our plans for the new year. As a class we have pledged to make a bigger effort to…

Thank you once again to Mrs Billington for cooking such a delicious Christmas lunch this year and thank you to the mums from Friends who kindly served it and cleared away afterwards! It was a special time being able to sit, eat and celebrate altogether. 

As you can see from these photos we had so much fun celebrating Christmas time with a visit to Lowther Pavillion in Latham to see the pantomime Cinderella (which we thoroughly enjoyed - Oh no you didn’t, Oh YES we did!) a very busy Christmas party (so busy I only managed to take three photos!) and…

The children applied the skills they learnt previously (creating autumn leaves see here https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-10-13-14-49-13-painting-autumn-leaves ) to create the background sky using wax resist and watercolour inks to create a picture representing the sky above St Paul’s…

As part of our geography and science  learning we take notice of the weather and note changes throughout the year (not just when we study it in a topic). Today we couldn’t resist taking a close look at the beautiful patterns created by nature as we still had flakes of ice in the areas shaded from…

I am so proud of the learning my Year 1 and 2 children have been doing making chairs for Baby Bear. The children have used the skill they have learnt in previous lessons and applied them in making the chairs. There was a lot of problem solving and discussion happening as they worked. 

They…

In this activity the children chose buttons to place on the Christmas pictures. Picking up the buttons helps improve their fine motor skills helping build muscles ready for holding pencils and writing. As the children chose their buttons I asked them lots of questions prompting learning and we…

A winter themed mark making activity set up for our Reception children this week but of course all the class have been using it for learning and fun.

This week our Reception children have been practising writing letters and numbers in the snow (or hail stones as the children have quite rightly…