Blog by Penny Kemp

What a fabulous Sports Day we have had this afternoon, I am so proud of all the children for the effort they put into their races, the team spirit and competitiveness they showed. Also a huge thank you to Pete from Fleetwood Town Football Club, our sports coach not just for today but for every PE…

We’ve started our new science topic this week and we are learning all about animals. Firstly we had a good read of our knowledge organisers for our science topic and learnt some new facts and vocabulary. Then we went on a hunt for animals in and around our lovely school grounds. 

We saw lots…

Our topic this half term is called Robots lots of our learning will be linked to this theme. We have been learning what robots are and how they can be useful.

In our English lesson we had a debate about which is best, a robot or a real dog. We had a great discussion before the children wrote…

The children have been busy playing and learning in our Nature Kitchen. They collected their ingredients from the field before and followed the recipes I had created for them then made up their own.

They practised lots of maths skills by counting, estimating and measuring their…

We have been busy making our role play areas outdoors with a campsite. 

The children made a car out of the tyres and crates to travel to their campsite and they were greeted by the campsite owners at the booking office when they arrived! The chose how many nights they wanted to stay for and…

Our Reception and Year 1 children have been looking closely at capital and lower case letters using geoboards.

What better way to practise our adding more and taking away skills than doing it with delicious looking pretend cakes?

The children in Lower School have been using the cakes this week to practise number skills, sorting skills and using money.

We have been so busy in class making our brains bigger! 

Each year group in Lower School tends to be learning a different topic in maths from the other (it’s just the way it works) but we do whole class activities where we make our maths brains work every day as a group before we split off into…

This morning the Reception children performed 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow With A Flippy Floppy Hat' to us. They were wonderful and brilliant because they enjoyed it.  they did the actions perfectly, they danced, they joined in with the music and they actually sang. 

We were the audience and…

As part of our learning through our topic ‘The Great Outdoors’ we have been enjoying the story ‘The Scarecrow’s Wedding’ by Julia Donaldson. 

We have been learning the story ready to help us with ideas to write our own adventure story with scarecrows as the main characters. 

The Reception…

We have been thinking about all the things we are grateful for in Lower School and also thinking about our hopes for the future for ourselves and the world around us. 

Our discussion began with a lovely charity book called ‘Big H and Little h’ that was kindly sent to us by Victoria the author…

We are always talking about the weather! In Lower School we are talking about it a little more than we usually would at the moment as it is the focus of our geography learning this half term.  

Our new topic this half term is called The Great Outdoors (it's a great topic) our main focus…