Blog by Penny Kemp

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…

Our Reception group have been busy creating lots of interesting things with big boxes and writing about them this week. We have had secret doors, magic doors, fairy castles, dinosaur lands, cars and so many more! We loved listening to the stories you made up as you played children!

As part of our topic ‘Explorers’ and as part of our English learning reading stories by the same author we have been reading the marvellous books by the artist and author Simon Bartram. We have been enjoying Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary, Bob The Man on The Moon, Bob and his Best Ever Friend Ever and…

Our EYFS children have been busy designing and creating junk models and wowing us with their skills and creativity. 

Well done, children, your labels telling us what your models are, are fantastic too!