Blog by Penny Kemp

What a fabulous group of happy, confident new children we have had visit us this morning! We can’t wait for them to start school in September. 

What a treat we have had this afternoon! Thank you so much to our fantastic group of parents in Friends who paid for our coach and tickets treating us to a trip to the Lancaster Grand Theatre. 

We went to see 'The Snail and The Whale' a story by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. It was so…

Great maths learning with Year 1 children this morning. They have been learning how to describe turns and position using the language ‘left’, ‘right’, ‘up’ and ‘down’. 

To practise their learning today they wrote instructions telling the teddies how to move along the track to reach the tractors…

Thank you so much to Elaine Silverwood from http://www.silverwoodevents.co.uk for giving us some lovely books to read we are very grateful!

Today we had a visit from Magda a Firefighter and Gerry a Community Safety Advisor from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service.

We watched a short film with Freddie and Filbert which taught us what to do if a fire starts in our homes. We learnt that smoke is the most dangerous thing in a fire. Fire…

Year 1 have been reading the book ‘The Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle. 

Here are some photographs of the fantastic instructions they wrote giving seeds advice on how to survive. You can also see the colourful collage art work that all Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 did surrounding the…

Happy birthday Isaac, 6 today!

Happy Birthday Charlie!

We have been learning about The Royal Family and the upcoming wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle this Saturday 19th May. This afternoon we made crowns to wear when we have our special Royal Wedding picnic tomorrow at lunchtime. 

Well done Sophie you won the certificate today because you never gave up! You were such a great Tough Tortoise. 

Thankfully some of our planting survived visits from hungry rabbits!

Part of our science learning, which started last term, was to observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants. Over the weeks the chidlren have been working scientifically, asking questions and observing…

It was lovely to watch Lillian and Emily nurse the toy lamb in the toy hospital with Miss Haynes two weeks ago. Emily decided she needed some special green medicine for the lamb's leg so she went over to the creative area took a piece of yellow material and blue paper pretended to mix them…