13 Nov

Y2 Addition and Subtraction

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!


 

13 Nov

Great Fire Of London LS

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. 

 

13 Nov

Firework Mark Making

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

7 Nov

Reading Tricky Words Challenge

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. 
 



 

 

 
 

4 Nov

Zog Visits Lower School

This week we had a surprise visitor, it was Zog the dragon! He found him in our classroom with a copy of his school report from Madam Dragon. 
 

We read the story and began doing different English activities …

 
 

 

24 Oct

Our next topic is The Great Fire Of London

I hope you’re all having a great half term break, we have some really interesting learning happening next half term, have a look at these videos and interactive games and start learning about The Great Fire of London …

Watch this video  

Play the game on this website … 

24 Oct

Pumpkin Printing

As a maths activity this week in EYFS creating patterns all the children have had the opportunity to print with Duplo blocks to create patterns on pumpkins. As part of raising awareness about recycling, as it is recycling week this week, we reused packing paper that had come in parcel to print…

20 Oct

Chatting at the hairdressers!

This week the children have had fun pretending to be hairdressers as they gave the cardboard rolls haircuts, legs, skirts  and trousers as part of a PSHE and fine motor skills activity.

We used photos of children showing different emotions to spark conversation and as the children were busy…

13 Oct

Painting Autumn Leaves

The children have thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with metallic wax crayons and Brusho crystal colours. They drew the natural objects, leaves, that they had studied last week in metallic wax crayons using the skills they have learnt in previous weeks. 

This week I introduced them to wax resist…

13 Oct

Penguin Facts

We are learning about non-fiction texts as the children are gathering information ready to write their own non-fiction book about penguins. We have chosen to learn about penguins as it has allowed some great cross curricular learning with our science (learning about animals) and goeography…

9 Oct

Autumn Leaves 2022

As part of our science and art learning this term we have been noticing the changes in seasons and nature around us. On our visit to Humblescough Farm last week https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-09-29-18-23-02-humblescough-farm we observed closely the leaves on the trees and ground preparing…

9 Oct

Reception's Learning Week 5 2022

Take a look at the learning our super EYFS children have been doing this week, we have started learning the Phase 2 sounds and the children are making great progress.