Blog by Penny Kemp

Our Reception children’s PE lessons are currently focusing on fundamental skills. In their two lessons this week they have been hopping, catching, jumping distances, skipping, doing a caterpillar walk and practising over arm throws. 

Our Y1 and Y2 childrens’ PE lessons are focusing on…

One of the childrens’ maths challenges this week was to see how many points they could earn by grabbing different objects with the tweezers in two minutes. 

It was very interesting to see the different tactics and problem solving the children made. Great counting in 2s and 3s from lots of the…

After accepting the challenge to make a healthy wrap for their DT learning (you can see it here  https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-31-16-00-00-dt-design-challenge) the children have done much cross curricular learning through science and English. As an English writing task the children had…

The results are in! After planting cress seeds last week (learn about it here  https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-31-17-15-00-how-do-you-keep-a-plant-healthy) the children were really interested to see what had happened to the seeds in the different pots and recorded their findings. 

They…

Continuing our science learning about plants the children have been investigating what makes a plant grow and how does it stay healthy by setting up an investigation. 

They tested their theory that a plant needs water, light, the right temperature and soil to be able to grow healthily by…

The children really enjoyed making a healthy wrap this week after accepting the challenge from Mrs Billington (see this previous post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-31-16-00-00-dt-design-challenge ). 

Building on their prior learning about different food groups the children sorted the…

Last week we received a letter from Mrs Billington our school cook asking us to help her design a new wrap for the school lunch menu.  Naturally we said yes, of course we will help!

The design brief was to create a healthy wrap. It must contain a protein, carbohydrate, vegetable or fruit and a…

We have been reading picture books written and illustrated by the fabulous artist Petr Horacek over the past few weeks. The fiction theme of our topic ‘The Farm Shop’ led us to read ‘The Greedy Goat’ and ‘Look Out, Suzy Goose’ (which the children made the connection to another story we had read…

After learning about the colour wheel and how to make secondary colours  (see previous blog post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-24-15-15-00-colour ) the children spent some time experimenting with mixing tertiary colours adding more and more of the primary colour to the mix to create…

We have been having a fabulous week exploring colour. We began by learning about the colour wheel and all the children learnt how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours. 
 

We used this fabulous picture book ‘Mixed’ by Aree Chung as a starting point for our learning. The story shows…

We are always proud of the achievements our children make outside of school and love to celebrate them. Last weekend Olivia and Evelyn performed on stage at The Winter Gardens in Blackpool in a show called Dance Fever 2022. They performed in three shows, Friday night, Saturday afternoon and…

Reception children have been deepening their understanding of the number ten this week. 
 

Have a look at these photos to see some of the activities they have been doing…