Blog by Penny Kemp

We have been learning lots of art skills by painting and printing. In preparation for making Christmas tree collages the children firstly learnt how to create a ‘wash’ using paint, painting over wax drawings of snowflakes to create a background winter scene. 
 

Then the children printed with a…

Congratulations to all our fantastic children who performed in our Christmas nativity story this year! We are so proud of all of you.

Here are some photographs of Lower School children …

We have been busy learning how to read and spell our ‘tricky’ words and make sentences up with them in!

A snapshot of our phonics and handwriting learning today …

Our Reception and Year 1 children have been deepening and exploring their understanding of number with some fun, Christmas themed activities this week. 
 

Take a look at these photos …

Our Year 2 children had a visit from Lancashire Fire and Rescue service today and learnt how to keep safe if there is a fire. 

Thank you very much to Scott and Karen for taking the time to visit us!

Our Reception superstars started their six week course learning how to ride balance bikes, strengthening their muscles and improving their balance skills. Take a look at these photos from their first session today. 
 

In our gymnastics lessons the children are learning how to travel in different ways using their hands and feet for support. They have been practicing caterpillar walk, frog jumps into a walk and bunny hops.  They have all been learning how to do a tuck jump as well. 
 

Take a look at this…

Our Reception children have been learning lots of different things in maths recently, measuring, comparing and making patterns. Here are some photographs of the children creating repeating patterns with natural resources outside. 
 

In our Geography lessons we have been learning the names of the seven continents and five oceans of the world. We have been investigating cold places in our quest to decide whether we would prefer to live in a hot or cold place. 
 

Today we learnt where the Equator is and what it means, then…

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…