Blog by Penny Kemp

In our RE lessons we are investigating the question ‘Why was the birth of Jesus such good news?’.

The children thought about how and who delivers good news (see the photos for some of their answers). The children then wrote special messages of good news and delivered them to their friends or…

Reagan has been busy baking maths themed biscuits in the shape of dominoes at home, they looked fabulous Reagan!

Thank you so much to Upper School for inviting us to play all the different games and take part in challenges on your maths stalls this afternoon. We had so much fun.

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We have had a very busy maths day! Take a look at these photos to see the activities and fun we’ve had doing a ‘maths March’ together. 
 

It’s Maths Week this week at Inskip and we’re planning to celebrate, develop and enjoy our maths skills through lots of different activities.

In Lower School this morning we launched our week by thinking about Growth Mindset and how having a ‘can do’ attitude to all our learning makes us happy,…

Wow Upper School! Thank you so much for inviting us to your AMAZING Pudsey Bear Bonaza! We had soooooo much fun raising money for Children in Need, your ideas for games were fabulous!

This week we have been investigating and comparing changes to firefighting over time. Before the Great Fire, firefighting methods were very basic. After the Great Fire, new and improved techniques were put in place.
 

People used leather buckets and hand squirts filled with water, but it was…

We had the most fantastic, jam packed day at Hothersall Lodge yesterday! Thank you to all the staff there particularly Jenny who led our group activities and Bailey who helped.

Our Reception children have been doing lots of great learning this week take a look at these photos showing a few of the things they have been doing! 

Our Y2 children have been maths whizzs this week adding and subtracting two digit numbers both crossing and not crossing ten. 

Well done Y2 I am so impressed with your progress!

We have been history detectives this week learning about the Great Fire that tore through London in September 1666. This week the children learnt where it began and they sequenced the events as they unfolded over the four days. 

Our Reception children have been having fun creating fireworks in glitter and sand this week. They have been practicing writing letters and numbers too. 
 

We are busy practising reading tricky words and high frequency words by seeing how many we can read in two minutes! Once the children have had one round against the timer they have to challenge themselves to go faster and beat their score the next time. 
 

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