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In our first lesson of gymnastics, the children firstly worked in pairs to create a matched and a mirrored balance using examples on pictures around the hall. They learnt to hold still their balances for at least 3 seconds and to use a stretched, taut body. A lot of the next part of the lesson was…

Reception have been busy bees counting groups of items and playing lots of games that help with the recognition of the numerals 1-10. We have been jumping and counting, playing interactive games, playing matching games and singing different songs.

They are learning that careful counting is…

Year 1 and 2 have been so enthusiastic to learn our new handwriting! We are using a 'continuous cursive' style which means they are learning to form letters in a way that will help them join up letters in the future - when they are ready.

We started our journey with lots of fine motor skill…

We really enjoyed our second Let’s Go Sing rehearsal with Gaynor yesterday! She taught us some fun warm up songs and we loved learning the new dance moves and Makaton signs for the next set of concert songs. Don’t forget to go online and continue learning the words at home!  
 

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As part of our PSHE work, the Upper School Class have set themselves challenges to achieve something or get better at something this half term. This could be sport related or mental health related. Oliver enjoys using his Rubik’s Cubes to help him overcome difficult situations and last week he…

We have started reading a new novel in our English lessons. It is call The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf. It is all about a new pupil who joins the class under mysterious circumstances and he doesn’t seem to be able to speak. The narrator of the story is one of the pupils and tries…

To introduce our first history lesson of the year, we began with some historical inquiry skills. Being a historian is a lot like being a detective, you have to build a picture based on different clues. 
To start with, children were given various clues to a mystery. Each clue told a story by…

As part of our English for this half term, the children are beginning with looking at instructions. To begin, we identified the features of instructions by trying to follow some ourselves. The instructions we had were how to fold and make an origami crab. We did very well at following the…

This week in English we are beginning to look into writing instructions. Within instructions, children may need to use prepositions. To practice our prepositions, children moved around the room, writing their own sentences with prepositions. 

It was wet, it was cold, it was very, very muddy but 9 of our fantastic Y5 and 6 children took part in a cross country race at Garstang Community Academy with enthusiasm and determination. The boys’ race was first and after two gruelling laps of the school field completed, Leo came in at a very…

The Upper School children finished this half term’s English by organising themselves into groups to create, rehearse and perform their own role plays of significant events from the book Street Child. There were scenes from the workhouse, from the time Jim spent on the coal lighter, a scene showing…

Middle school had their rainforest day this week! Children brought in their cuddly toys and donated £1each to put towards the rainforest trust. 
We worked together on a rainforest themed escape room, then we created some wonderful descriptive writing pieces.

finally, we created a group…