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Like most years, our first Maths topic of the year is Place Value. We are exploring various ways of representing numbers to 1000 to really get to grips with the ‘onesness’ of ones, the ‘tensness’ of the tens and the ‘hundredness’ of hundreds. We have also explored numbers which include a zero…and…

The children got to experience how big the planets and the solar system is today when we used toilet roll sheets and fruits to represent the relative sizes and distances of the solar system. It ended up that we had to unravel the toilet roll out of the classroom and down the corridor. Neptune was…

Our new history topic is ‘The Stone Age’ and we started with a KWL grid to find out what the children already know and what they would like to know. 
 

We have left the ‘What have we learnt’ column for later…and now the children are very eager to find out…

What strengths, skills and interests do we have?

This is our first question to explore this year…and it has been such an enjoyable one to start with! 
 

We created mini graffiti squares to represent a snapshot of who we are. We thought about things we love, we are good at and things we…

We have had a super first three days of the academic year in Lower School! We have welcomed Luke, Rory, Xander, Sarah, Sofia, Annie and Eliza to our Reception group and Sanam to Year 1. We had our first birthday of the year when Rory and Xander celebrated their 5th birthday on Friday.

Every…

Our first Science topic of the year is ‘States of Matter’ and we started by discussing and identifying the different states: solid, liquid and gas. 
 

Through discussion, we agreed that some things were clearly a liquid, solid or gas but sometimes it is tricky to tell as they might look,…

Upper School have begun to explore our first novel of the year-The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce. We have spent time making predictions using evidence from the class display and also did some grammar work today where they used their evidence to write sentences that included subordinate…

After a lot of asking, Ms Thornton finally brought in her pets for middle school to meet. Although, they are quite unusual! On Thursday, two of Ms Thornton's pet rats came into middle school to meet the children. 

The day began with remembering our science from throughout the year - we worked…

Last Monday, middle school were able to attend an exciting careers fair. Children got to speak to different people from jobs in the STEM field to understand the range of jobs they could possibly one day do! There were people talking about renewable energies and electricity. There were others…

This week we have been learning how to keep ourselves safe out near roads. We have learnt where it is safe to play, dangers to be aware of and how to cross the road safely. In our first activity we stood and watched the traffic the travels along our road outside school noticing the speed and…

Middle School have been finishing off their maths this year with some data handling. We have reminded ourselves about tally charts and pictograms, but spend some time looking at bar charts and learning how to create and read them. Now it was time to make one ourselves!

We started with a tally…

This week, we had the fantastic opportunity to attend 'Let's Learn Moor 2024'. 
The children participated in many fun and educational activities to learn more about how we manage the moorlands in Lancashire. To start the day, we met with the police. They showed us some of their equipment and…