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After learning about the tradition of Mothering Sunday we talked about how and why we celebrate our Mums now. The children made their Mums a special card with some lovely messages in them ready to give them on Sunday.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mums out there. 
 

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We had so much fun this year, we enjoy reading so much that it was a treat to devote a whole day to the joy of books!

We began our day by sharing our favourite books that we had brought from home with the whole class. After we’d shared them the children chose to either draw the front cover of…

Inspired by the book ‘Billy and the Beast’ that we are reading the children have written their own recipes similar to the one we think the Beast was following to make his Terrible Soup. The children have been learning how to spell regular and irregular plurals and were asked to include great…

This Thursday, nine children from Middle School set off to Garstang Academy to play in a glo-dodgeball tournament. This is a very fun and exciting game where the lights are turned out, the UV lights come on and the music plays loud! 
Inskip team played fairly and kindly with others and had an…

On Thursday, Middle school had a wonderful 'World Book Day'! 
We began the day with a reading and interpreting task all about the legendary Loch Ness monster! Children read key pieces of evidence, facts about the loch and theories presented to them for what Nessie could be. Children wrote key…

Here we are at Let’s Go Sing! 
 

Middle school has been exploring 3D, texture and layers relating to Ancient Greeks. This week, we explored layering textures on top of paintings to create Ancient Greek inspired buildings using art straws.

We love learning new sounds in Lower School, we have phonics sessions every morning and then practice our new phonics learning all through the day. 

The break in to our classes by a mysterious beast we had last week reminded me of a great story I have called  Billy and the Beast by Nadia Shireen. So this week we have been reading it and doing some great learning inspired by the story. The children have been improving the grammar and…

We have been learning about number in all different ways this week. Our flowers have grown quickly as we have been taking care of them and noticing the changes in height as they grow. We have been doing lots of counting to twenty and improving our fine motor skills in Reception and Year One. Take…

This week, we have been looking at how to read play scripts. Children were split into groups and given scripts. The children sorted themselves into parts and then learned their lines. 
Each and every one of them worked incredibly hard and did an excellent job. It takes nerves to get up and…

Today we had the pleasure of a visit from STEM First and Fylde Coast Physics during our science lesson. They set the class a challenge to work out who was hacking the internet and ‘rescue Hansel and Gretel from the Witch’.

The children worked brilliantly in groups of 4 to work out the clues…