Blog by Penny Kemp

Two weeks ago work began on the field next to our school where a housing development is being built. We have been observing the changes closely and enjoying seeing the different big vehicles coming and going. 

After our first visit we had a debate about whether the changes were a good or a bad…

What super home learners we have at Inskip St Peter's! Whilst Lower School has been at home self isolating one of their home learning tasks has been to create a wormery in a jar to continue our science theme of learning about animals. Over the nest two weeks they are going to study what happens…

Our EYFS children have been busy learning about animals along with Year 1 and Year 2 but doing slightly different activities. They went on an animal hunt and drew pictures of animals they saw in our field and over the hedges. After talking about what animals eat and where they live the children…

We have been learning about animals’ diets and learning that we can group the animals into categories according to what they eat. The children used books and the internet to research animals diets and found lots of interesting information.

Omnivores eat meat and plants. Humans are omnivores but…

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…