14 Oct

Sequin Pumpkins

Our Recent children have been using their fine motor skills to pick up sequins with tweezers (it needs a lot of concentration, it’s not easy!) and place them on the patterns on the pumpkins. 
 

13 Oct

Observational Drawing

Our Reception children have been looking very closely and observing details today. They talked about the different things they could see and drew pictures. 
 

12 Oct

1,2,3 that’s me!

Our Reception children are looking closely at the numbers 1,2 and 3 at the moment. 

They are learning, to count, recognise the numerals, write the numbers, subitise the amounts, learn one more and one less. 

9 Oct

Holidays in the past

In our history lessons this half term the children have been idnvestigating the question ‘what is history?’
 

After looking at things that have happened in thier own lives in the past they began to look at holidays and investigate what holidays in the past were like.
 

This week Mr Proctor…

7 Oct

Pat a cake, Pat a cake

Our Reception children have been learning the rhyme ‘Pat a cake, Pat a cake baker’s man’ so I created an activity where they made dough cakes and marked them with the letters sounds they have been learning in our phonics sessions. 
 

They had great fun practicing lots of skills for fine motor…

6 Oct

Chop chop

Our Reception children practise using scissors often to develop fine motor skills. Here are a few photographs of one activity they did this week …

23 Sep

Self portraits 2026

As part of the children learning about themselves and noticing similarities and differences in each other they painted a self portrait. 
 

They used mirrors to look closely at their faces before drawing then using watercolour paints to create a self portrait. 
 

18 Sep

Harvest Art

Our children enjoyed printing using autumn colours creating pictures to display in church for our Harvest Festival. 
 

The Reception children printed using forks dipping into different autumnal coloured paint. They experimented making new colours by colour mixing. 
 

The Year One and Two…

11 Sep

Humpty Dumpty

Our Reception children learned and performed the rhyme Humpty Dumpty to the rest of the class this week. 
 

10 Sep

Receptions children’s first week

Our new Reception children have settled into school life with ease, they are all super little learners! 
 

3 Sep

Summer Reading heroes

Congratulations to Sofia and Raya in Year one who completed the reading challenge organised by Lancashire Libraries over the summer. 
 

You are both reading superstars!

17 Jul

Visits to a Buddhist Centre and a Hindu Temple

On Thursday we went on a whole school trip to Preston where we were grateful to be welcomed into a Buddhist Centre and Hindu temple.

Lower School and year three visited one temple together whilst year 4 and upper school visited the other and then we swapped over! 

We had the chance to see,…