Blog by Penny Kemp

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… 

Developing our Reception children’s understanding of the natural world today they planted daffodil, hyacinth and tulip bulbs from plants we have grown in pots. If you look at our previous blog post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-17-19-21-35-investigating-bulbs you can read all about the…

We have been making connections throughout all our learning in different subjects over the past two weeks, revisiting and building on learning we did weeks ago too, all through an overarching theme of Spring.

In science we have looked closely at bulbs developing our scientific skills of…

We have been enjoying reading and studying the story ‘Farmer Duck’ by Martin Waddell this week. The children acted out the story, first in pairs and then in small groups before performing it to each other as one activity this week. They had so much fun and I was so impressed with their…

Our science topic this half term is linked to our theme called ‘The Farm Shop’ and involves learning all about what keeps a plant healthy. 
 

This week we have been looking closely at the plants we have in our classroom and outside. We have decided to set up an experiment to test our theory…

We had a very exciting visit from a week-old ewe lamb from Maddison and Reagan’s Grandma and Pop’s farm this week! They have been very busy on the farm just recently as all their sheep decided to lamb at once. Maddison and Reagan have been helping out on the farm and Maddison has been a real…

We had a visit from Simon Bowen and friends with his rally car before they compete in the rally in Garstang this weekend. The children enjoyed having a look and getting to sit inside the car. 
 

Thank you for visiting us, we will all be cheering for number 10!

On World Book Day we created our very own book of riddles!  Our topic this half term is called ‘The Farm Shop’ and lots of our learning is linked to farms, animals on the farms, plants, people and how farms produce food for us to eat. 
 

Learning how to write a riddle is one of our English…

What a joy to be able to celebrate the 25th WBD in school with everyone this year! I was so delighted to see the excitement and joy in all the children throughout the day as they showed off their costumes and shared their favourite books.

Our theme was ‘Animals’ where I asked that you choose…

Thank you to all the parents who came to our reading meeting on Monday afternoon, it was lovely to see you all and chat about all things to do with reading! 

I launched our new class lending library which has been a great success this week with children taking books home to enjoy and returning…