Blog by Penny Kemp

We all really enjoyed our visit from Liz and hedgehog number 3276 (we named him Hedgly!) this morning. The children were able to see him up close, stroke him and ask lots of questions about the care and lifestyle of hedgehogs. We got lots of great information to help us write our non-ficiton…

Year 2 had a maths, science and art afternoon today. Following our work looking at seasons and changes in our environment we went for a leaf hunt on our school grounds. This led to lots of great discussion comparing the fallen leaves we had found noticing patterns, colours and shapes. We thought…

Year 1 and 2 children have been great co-operative 'Busy Bee' learners working in pairs to find features of non-fiction texts in books. They did this to help them see and learn how to set out information ready for when they write the facts they have learnt about hedgehogs. 

Look through this…

Lots of fun learning has been happening in Lower School this last few weeks inspired by the weather and our environment we started looking at the changes Autumn brings. We have been reading lots of Percy the Parkkeeper stories and have created a fantastic Percy's Park, shed and inside his house…

Year One have been working out how to count big groups of objects. They were great thinkers and eventually decided to put the objects in groups of 10. 

A magic moment of any teacher's day ... finding two boys engrossed in a good story snuggled up in the book corner! Super reading boys Ted and Isaac. 

Well done Bethan! Bethan completed the Lancashire Library's reading challenge during the holidays. That must be why she has come back to school as such a great reader. As promised she got an extra prize from school as a reward. 

If anyone else completed their challenge over the holidays please…

Mrs Young brought her new pet Tortoises in today to show the class. We got the opportunity to ask many questions and learn about the care of the tortoises. They are very young and very cute! 

Rocket is the older one of the two and is very active, hence his name ... he shot off around the rug…

We have had a lovely first day back at school. We have chatted about how we can make our time in school really special this year and decided on a handful of rules to live by. We have read, written, counted, problem solved, excercised (PE with Lloyd from AFC Fylde), painted, drawn, played, met old…

Yippee! I can't wait to see you all again on Tuesday 5th September, don't forget your PE kits you will need them in the afternoon. 

I am really looking forward to seeing you, hearing all about your adventures and what you have been doing in the summer break from school. 

Mrs…

Thank you very much to Reggie's family! To celebrate Reggie's 6th birthday Reggie's mum and dad have bought two fantastic books for all the children in school to enjoy, what  a lovely idea!

'The Lorax' is one of Reggie's favourites and 'Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls' introduces us to one…

Well done Ted! This weekend Ted entered the robot he had started to make at school, but then added lots more too, to finish it off at home, in one of the creative competitions at Great Eccleston Agricultural Show. He won supreme exhibit! Wow!