Releasing the butterflies

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We had a magical experience on Tuesday when we released all our Painted Lady butterflies in our meadow area of the field. The children reached in and helped the butterflies out of the net and were lucky enough to get a really close look. Some of the butterflies sat on their hands or arms for a…

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Platinum Jubilee Celebration

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We had an amazing day on Friday when we all came dressed in red, white and blue to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. 

We had a delicious lunch with a very special visitor, lots of fun activities and watched as Ms Leyland planted a commemorative tree in our field. Take a look at these…

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The Queen 2022

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Progressing from drawing (see previous blog post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-06-03-08-39-26-art-portrait-drawing) the children have used watercolours to paint their portraits of the queen.

For most of the children it was the first time they had used watercolour paint and a chance to…

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Art - Portrait Drawing

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As part of our celebrations of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee we have been learning about the Queen and her life, we have looked at some historical artefacts (a souvenir brochure from the Queen’s coronation), images and videos on the internet and photographs of her taken throughout her life.

All…

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DT Textiles - Pouches

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The Year 1 and 2 children have finished their design and technology project! Take a look at our previous blog https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-05-22-17-44-41-dt-textiles-learning-stitches since then the children have sewn their pieces of felt together with a running stich, planned the design…

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The butterflies are here!

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We were so excited to watch catch sight of two different butterflies emerge from their chrysalis on Friday! It was an amazing experience for the children to watch and experience. 

We had lots of discussion and excitement as the children watched the final stages of the life cycle of a butterfly…

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Book Choices

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In Lower School the children have the opportunity to vote for the book they would like me to read to them every day. Each morning they come into school and look at the choices then place a shell in the bowl in front of the book they would prefer. 

We have a great selection of fiction,…

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DT Textiles - Learning Stitches

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Our Design and Technology project this half term is to design and make a pouch as we are learning about textiles. We began by looking closely at our clothes and sharing ideas about how we thought our clothes are made. This created a great deal of discussion and we looked around the classroom…

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Computing - Moving Robots

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Over this half term Year One and Two introduced to floor robots in our computing lessons. They have talked about what the buttons on a floor robot might do and then tried the buttons out. They have spent time linking an outcome to a button press. They have also considered the direction command…

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Lauren Child’s Visit

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Wow, wow and wow! We had an absolutely amazing morning on Friday when Lauren Child came to talk to us. Lauren talked about all her books, how she writes them and how she creates the illustrations.  It was fascinating. 

Take a look at the news article here on our website for a full description…

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The United Kingdom

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As part of our Geography learning this term the children are building upon their locational knowledge of the United Kingdom by learning the names of the four countries, their capital cities and the surrounding seas as well as identifying characteristics of them. 

They have been using atlases…

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Caterpillar Update!

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The children are using their observations skills daily to observe the changes In the caterpillars as they grow. The children are fascinated by what they are seeing and have been asking lots of questions developing their scientific enquiry skills.

We have noticed how quickly most of the…

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