Lower School (KS1)

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…

Last week we received a letter from Mrs Billington our school cook asking us to help her design a new wrap for the school lunch menu.  Naturally we said yes, of course we will help!

The design brief was to create a healthy wrap. It must contain a protein, carbohydrate, vegetable or fruit and a…

We have been reading picture books written and illustrated by the fabulous artist Petr Horacek over the past few weeks. The fiction theme of our topic ‘The Farm Shop’ led us to read ‘The Greedy Goat’ and ‘Look Out, Suzy Goose’ (which the children made the connection to another story we had read…

After learning about the colour wheel and how to make secondary colours  (see previous blog post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-24-15-15-00-colour ) the children spent some time experimenting with mixing tertiary colours adding more and more of the primary colour to the mix to create…

We have been having a fabulous week exploring colour. We began by learning about the colour wheel and all the children learnt how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours. 
 

We used this fabulous picture book ‘Mixed’ by Aree Chung as a starting point for our learning. The story shows…

We are always proud of the achievements our children make outside of school and love to celebrate them. Last weekend Olivia and Evelyn performed on stage at The Winter Gardens in Blackpool in a show called Dance Fever 2022. They performed in three shows, Friday night, Saturday afternoon and…

Reception children have been deepening their understanding of the number ten this week. 
 

Have a look at these photos to see some of the activities they have been doing… 

Developing our Reception children’s understanding of the natural world today they planted daffodil, hyacinth and tulip bulbs from plants we have grown in pots. If you look at our previous blog post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-17-19-21-35-investigating-bulbs you can read all about the…

We have been making connections throughout all our learning in different subjects over the past two weeks, revisiting and building on learning we did weeks ago too, all through an overarching theme of Spring.

In science we have looked closely at bulbs developing our scientific skills of…

We have been enjoying reading and studying the story ‘Farmer Duck’ by Martin Waddell this week. The children acted out the story, first in pairs and then in small groups before performing it to each other as one activity this week. They had so much fun and I was so impressed with their…

Our science topic this half term is linked to our theme called ‘The Farm Shop’ and involves learning all about what keeps a plant healthy. 
 

This week we have been looking closely at the plants we have in our classroom and outside. We have decided to set up an experiment to test our theory…