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Year 1 and 2 please check your mymaths page, everyone has been set new homework tasks! Remember your login details are in your reading diaries. If you have an IPad and want to do your MyMaths tasks on there you may struggle as MyMaths uses flash player. However, if you download the free app called…

Today Year 5 and 6 have been visited by Lancashire Fire and Resue Service. In their first session about Fire Safety Awareness, the children tried to identify potential hazards and learnt what to do in the event of a house fire.

In the second session about Road Safety, the children increased…

On Monday, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Damian Harvey, a children's author who has written over 80 books. He read us some of his fantastic books and lead a writing workshop during which we worked collaboratively to create a character and setting for a story. 

Damian gave us some…

Today Magda from the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service came to visit us. First of all we talked about smoke alarms, Theo explained what a smoke alarm was and what it did extremely well to Magda and the class. Spencer and Sofia told the class why the best place for the smoke alarm is on the…

What a fabulous morning we have had, I am really looking forward to reading the stories lower school children write this week after our writing workshop with Damian our visiting author ...

Well done Isaac! The robot you have made at home with your grandma is fantastic! 

We are busy reading lots of robot stories and doing lots of different activities around one book 'No Bot the robot with no bottom' by Sue Hendra learning how stories work before we write our own. Today in one activity we played magic microphone' and took it in turns to be the main character…

This afternoon the children had a visit to the robotics factory and met Professors Kempbot and Smith! The children talked about what they already knew about robots and helped Professor Kempbot by designing some new robots for the factory. It was great fun. 

Our topic in Reception this half term in Reception is ‘Toys’ and in Year One and Two ‘Robots’. As part of their learning we will find out about real robots working around the world helping humans in many ways, and also about some famous robots from our television screens.

The children are going…

We had a great visit from SMJ Falconry and learnt lots about birds of prey. Lower School had the chance to ask their questions and find out more about the different falcons and owls to help them write their reports. They even had the opportunity to hold the birds and see them up close. The whole…

On Tuesday 23rd May, all members of Upper School took part in an Archery taster session. This was lead by Mark and Alexis from Mr Archery, who run after school sessions, which to us are available after half term for five weeks. All Upper School children should have brought a letter home providing…

Year 3 and 4 having been telling the time in Maths. Whilst some children find this very easy, many find this dificult. Over the holidays and whenever possible, ask your child to tell you the time!      Ask them questions such as

• What time will it be in......... an hour, twenty minutes, when…