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Our link to world faiths in our RE topic had us exploring the Jewish festival of light, Hanukkah. Last week, the children learned the story of Hanukkah and a little about the Jewish faith. This week, we took part in a Hanukkah tradition of dreidel. The children used lots of skills to help them…

Today the children thought about the fourth candle on the Advent wreath which symbolises God’s People. We discussed the importance in the Christian faith of the Second Coming of Christ and how God’s people prepare for this in their hearts and minds during the Advent season through prayer and…

Over the past three weeks, Upper School has been learning about the season of Advent and the significance to Christians of the Advent Wreath. The children have learnt about the meaning of each of the candles-prophets Isaiah and Micah, John the Baptist and Mary Mother of Jesus. This week we also…

In science we have been investigating classification of animals. Children have spent some time learning about the groups: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, mulloscs and arthropods. Children split into small groups to research each classification, create a poster and then feed back to the…

To prepare our classroom for the festive period, the children spent a fun afternoon creating crafts. Firstly, we cut and created paper snowflakes to hang from the ceiling! Secondly, we decorated a Christmas bauble to represent ourselves. Lastly, we had a competition to see which team could make…

We are so lucky to have been chosen to take part in the Primary Stars and Premier League Protect the Planet event today at Anfield. The children at Inskip, St Peter’s were chosen to take part after being involved in the Walk To School Project in the summer term with Corey from Fleetwood Town. 
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In our art, we have been focusing on getting our artistic pieces to flow and use space. Children were challenged to listen to a piece of music and create anything that came to mind from the music. Children have begun to use lines and marks alongside drawn images in various ways to represent the…

We are looking at our times tables in middle school, which means learning new times tables for years 3 and revising some for year 4. We have all had a fantastic start with our 3s and 4s. Today we learned that we can use what knowledge we already have to help us fill in the rest of the times tables…

What a fantastic lot of crazy hair children I have in my class today! Such a lot of effort has been put in and we’ve got loads of brilliant prizes for our Christmas Fayre on Saturday 2nd December now! Thank you parents and carers! 
 

Ten Upper School children took part in a dodgeball tournament at Garstang Academy yesterday but it was a bit different to normal…it was in the dark! The dodgeballs were glow in the dark so they could be seen and we made sure we wore our white PE kits so we would glow too! The children had great…

Upper School enjoyed investigating different types of circuits in our Science lesson this week. They were given tasks on each table to explore including, trying to make a light bulb glow brighter or making a switch out of paperclips. This work will lead us onto more technical work such as drawing…

In this week’s gymnastics lesson, the class took their previous learning about matched and mirrored balances onto the large apparatus. The focus was to be able to travel in a gymnastic style onto the equipment and create a balance that had strength and stillness to it. This is harder than you…