Reception’s Investigation
Our Reception children have had fun with this activity this week when they tried to free the flowers they’d picked from the ice!
They used their senses and explored frozen water and how it changes state when salt or warm water are added. They learnt that the warm water had the greatest effect…
Upper School’s Reports
We had a treat this afternoon when Upper School came to our classroom to share their learning about Easter celebrations around the world. Go to their blog page to find out more!
Petr Horacek’s Visit
What an absolute TREAT we had on Friday afternoon when the fabulous author and illustrator Petr Horáček came to our school! Petr writes and illustrates children’s picture books, he talked to us about how he began drawing and how he creates his stories. Petr had us all giggling and totally…
Caterpillars
Our science topic at the moment is ‘Living Things and Their Habiitats’ and alongside this topic the children are building on their knowledge from earlier in the year by learning about the life cycle of a butterfly first hand.
Maddison and Reagan’s mum Mrs Fox has very kindly bought the class a…
Microhabitats to World Habitats
This week we have been continuing to learn about habitats. Our Reception children have been developing their understanding of the natural world taking part in the discussions and research with Year 1 and 2 about habitats. The Reception children have also been building on their prior learning of…
The Wind In The Willows
This week the children developed their ability to recount events in a story by first acting out a scene from the classic “The Wind In The Willows” by Kenneth Grahame.
In groups the children took on the roles of Rat, Mole and Badger and retold the part of the story when Mole decides to venture…
Habitats and The Natural World
Year 1 and 2 have begun our science topic developing their knowledge about habitats this week by exploring and comparing things that are alive, dead and have never been alive. They have also looked at local habitats and explored our fantastic outdoor space mapping habitats and finding out what…
Creating an Animal Shelter
A surprise delivery sparked our English topic this week when we received a box of animals and supplies! Our theme for the half term is called ‘Wind In The Willows’ and within English the children will be reading lots of stories where the animal characters have adventures before writing their…
PE in the sun
Our Reception children’s PE lessons are currently focusing on fundamental skills. In their two lessons this week they have been hopping, catching, jumping distances, skipping, doing a caterpillar walk and practising over arm throws.
Our Y1 and Y2 childrens’ PE lessons are focusing on…
How Many Can You Grab?
One of the childrens’ maths challenges this week was to see how many points they could earn by grabbing different objects with the tweezers in two minutes.
It was very interesting to see the different tactics and problem solving the children made. Great counting in 2s and 3s from lots of the…
Persuasive Posters
After accepting the challenge to make a healthy wrap for their DT learning (you can see it here https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-31-16-00-00-dt-design-challenge) the children have done much cross curricular learning through science and English. As an English writing task the children had…
Results of our science investigation
The results are in! After planting cress seeds last week (learn about it here https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-31-17-15-00-how-do-you-keep-a-plant-healthy) the children were really interested to see what had happened to the seeds in the different pots and recorded their findings.
They…