Pat a cake, Pat a cake
Our Reception children have been learning the rhyme ‘Pat a cake, Pat a cake baker’s man’ so I created an activity where they made dough cakes and marked them with the letters sounds they have been learning in our phonics sessions.
They had great fun practicing lots of skills for fine motor…
Chop chop
Our Reception children practise using scissors often to develop fine motor skills. Here are a few photographs of one activity they did this week …
What is a plant?
As part of our science learning for Year 1 and 2 and developing our Reception children’s knowledge and understanding of the world we have been investigating the question ‘What is a plant?’.
Take a look at their learning …
Self portraits 2026
As part of the children learning about themselves and noticing similarities and differences in each other they painted a self portrait.
They used mirrors to look closely at their faces before drawing then using watercolour paints to create a self portrait.
Musical lines
Today the children practised drawing different lines using music as a stimulus. They were Introduced to Paul Klee, a Swiss-born German artist by looking closely at two pieces of his art. They were Park Near Lucerne, 1938 by Paul Klee and Scaffolding for the Head of a Monumental Sculpture, 1923.
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Harvest Art
Our children enjoyed printing using autumn colours creating pictures to display in church for our Harvest Festival.
The Reception children printed using forks dipping into different autumnal coloured paint. They experimented making new colours by colour mixing.
The Year One and Two…
Humpty Dumpty
Our Reception children learned and performed the rhyme Humpty Dumpty to the rest of the class this week.
Receptions children’s first week
Our new Reception children have settled into school life with ease, they are all super little learners!
Summer Reading heroes
Congratulations to Sofia and Raya in Year one who completed the reading challenge organised by Lancashire Libraries over the summer.
You are both reading superstars!
Visits to a Buddhist Centre and a Hindu Temple
On Thursday we went on a whole school trip to Preston where we were grateful to be welcomed into a Buddhist Centre and Hindu temple.
Lower School and year three visited one temple together whilst year 4 and upper school visited the other and then we swapped over!
We had the chance to see,…
Our fabulous new children …
Our new Reception children starting in September came to visit us this week and we had such a lovely day.
We welcomed Erin, Ginny, Rosie, Delilah, Ella, Arthur, Muhammad and Dominic for the day and what settled, happy children they all were. I was very proud of our Year 1 and 2 (for the day)…