Blog by Penny Kemp

So much great learning is happening everyday in Lower School, we are so busy I often don’t get chance to take photos! Here are a few of our clever Reception children writing numbers 1 to 5. 
 

We were very lucky this week when Sam, Luca and Rafa’s Daddy came into school to tell us all about his job being a vet. It was a great way to round off our science learning about animals this half term.

We learnt more about how to look after our pets at home, the dangers that face them and how…

We have had ‘the best day ever’ today at Blackpool Zoo! We have been learning about animals in science and hit and cold places in geography so went out on a visit to get some first hand knowledge and experiences. 
 

Take a look at these photographs of our day…

This week in Lower School all the children have been comparing numbers as part of their maths learning. Look at these photos of year one’s learning for a snapshot of the week …

After talking about seasons, autumn and plants the children created some autumn trees of their own. 
 

We are a super team in Lower School!

All week the children have been investigating on our ‘curiosity table’. They have been learning about trees, how they grow, their seeds and the weather by studying conkers and acorns.
 

They’ve been looking closely at patterns and colours in the squashes, conkers, acorns and leaves outside.…

Our Reception are such GREAT learners we are having a lot of fun learning letter sounds and blending them together to read words. Over the past two weeks they have learnt s, a, t, p, i, n. Take a look at these photos to see what they’ve been doing …

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…