Lower School (KS1)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Continuing our science learning about plants the children have been investigating what makes a plant grow and how does it stay healthy by setting up an investigation. 

They tested their theory that a plant needs water, light, the right temperature and soil to be able to grow healthily by…

The children really enjoyed making a healthy wrap this week after accepting the challenge from Mrs Billington (see this previous post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-31-16-00-00-dt-design-challenge ). 

Building on their prior learning about different food groups the children sorted the…