Blog by Penny Kemp

Over a few lessons the children have learnt new skills through a design and technology project. They had to design and make a salad that contained a root vegetable following on from our science learning where we have been learning about plants. 

Firstly the children looked closely at some fruit…

This morning, Lower School enjoyed a fun filled music lesson.

After reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk we rehearsed a performance complete with four songs, musical instruments, acting and dancing! 

Well done children, I hope Arthur the giant could hear us at the top of the…

As Easter draws near, Lower School have been exploring new life in nature.

Our nature walk with Mrs.Hurley lead us around our beautiful (if a little blustery) school grounds.

The children discovered daffodils blooming, emerging leaves on the willow tunnel and lovely pink blossom. Take a look…

A treat for Lower School this afternoon! We performed our medley of songs we have been learning for Sing Together and the Lower School children really enjoyed our singing. 

Year One and Two children have been fantastic poets over the last two weeks. We began by reading lots of different poems, talking about them and generating ideas for our own poems. Then the children wrote their own poem called Seaside Fun. After drafting and editing their poem they published it by…

Over this last half term the children have showed some great progression in their writing skills. They have had many writing opportunities to develop these skills. Our role play area which the children decided should be a post office meant lots of letters, cards, notes and postcards where written.…

What a busy weekend, Lower School. 

Thank you for sharing your exciting news with the class. 

At Inskip St Peter's we love learning new words, words are powerful and we appreciate how they help us to become successful readers and writers.

Every day in both Lower and Upper school we have a 'word of the day' and we do different activities to help the children learn and enjoy the new…

A huge well done to Amber and Ada in their ballet exams - thank you for sharing your success with the class!

Being Brave. . . What would Jesus do? 

In today’s RE lesson, Lower School read the bible story of Jesus’ arrest and discussed that Peter’s attempt at being brave lead to violence and hurt. We learnt that God never tolerates violence and that he teaches us to be brave in many other ways. We drew…

We love making our brains bigger by working with numbers in Lower School! EYFS have been learning number bonds to five through many different activities. Recently Year 1 and 2 have been learning about repeated addition and multiplication. Have a look at these photographs to see the great learning…

We had a lot of fun on Friday afternoon learning about 2D AND 3D shapes. The children worked together moving around four different activities where they recognised, named, sorted and described 2D and 3D shapes. Take a look at these photographs to see their learning ...