Blog by Penny Kemp

In Year one and two we are working on place value and understanding number at the moment. Year one children are working with numbers to 20 counting forwards, backwards, counting on one more and counting one less. We weave this learning into different activities every day. Year two children have…

Today we started to explore our thoughts about who made the world. We discussed what people of faith believe about God as creator of the world.
 

At the very beginning of the Bible, in the book of Genesis, there is a story about how God created the world and the order in which he created…

We have been playing lots of games and taking part in activities to get to know one another, we have looked at the things that make us different and the things that make us the same. 

In our class we choose to be one big family who work together to make each other feel happy, safe and part of a…

We have had a super first three days of the academic year in Lower School! We have welcomed Luke, Rory, Xander, Sarah, Sofia, Annie and Eliza to our Reception group and Sanam to Year 1. We had our first birthday of the year when Rory and Xander celebrated their 5th birthday on Friday.

Every…

This week we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe out near roads. We have learnt where it is safe to play, dangers to be aware of and how to cross the road safely. In our first activity we stood and watched the traffic the travels along our road outside school noticing the speed and…

We’ve had an amazing day out at Humblescough Farm in Nateby, Garstang today. Thank you to Diana for inviting us and to Mr Sneddon for all your hard work creating amazing memories for our children!  I was extremely proud of our children today, you were all very well behaved and had enormous…

We made the most of the good weather this week with lots of outdoor learning. One activity we have enjoyed has been creating drinks using leftover orange peelings saved from snack time! The drinks were quite unusual because each one gave us special powers, they made us dance, talk in funny voices,…

Our Reception children have been practising forming letters correctly and building words outside today. 
 

This week the children are being creative outdoors creating mud cheesecakes and sticky hot dogs!  They are being great chefs. Lots of great exploring, questioning, creating and discussion has been happening, lots of great learning through play. Through playing we have explored science queries (eg…

Our Reception children used lots of different art skills and made some cool jellyfish …

We made the most of the great weather this week with lots of outdoor fun …

Our Year 1 children have been doing lots of different activities throughout the week developing their understanding of place value to 100. They have been playing lots of games, challenging each other and themselves and investigated how many tens and how many ones are in different two digit…