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This year we had a unique and fantastic world book day... we were visited by an actual author! Shane Hegarty (author of 'The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams') came into school for a hilarious talk with the children.

Inspired by Shane's visit, middle school spent most of our morning creating our…

In our science lessons we have been exploring how plants reproduce - children learned that a flower was not just a flower, but instead it was made up of lots of smaller parts with lots of different functions.

Children labelled the parts of the flower on their diagrams before having a look at a…

Some of Upper School kindly brought in books they enjoyed when they were younger. Mrs Allen, Mrs Dalton and I particularly loved sharing our memories of reading The Magic Faraway Tree when we were younger! 
 

Thank you for sharing! 

Upper School put their knowledge of children’s authors and books to the test! Well done to Florence, Alfie, Ted and Isaac for reaching podium spots! 
 

We have all LOVED exploring books with a buddy around school this morning! 
 

Make sure you check out Middle School and Lower School for more photos of our lovely lot enjoying a book…in a nook!
 

This morning, we all found a book with an interesting front cover to explore and recreate…(we do sometimes judge a book by its cover!)

Such a lovely opportunity to share our love of reading together today on World Book Day! The children all found reading buddies and moved around the school choosing comfy places to enjoy stories together. 
 

 
Please take a look at Middle and Upper School’s blog posts to see other…

After some technical issues, I am finally able to share photos of the fabulous morning we had with Lancashire’s Heritage Learning Service. Through talk, dance, drama, freeze frames and artefact-handling, Upper School found out a vast array of facts about Tudors and Tudor life. 
 

Following…

We have begun to look at the Easter story again in our RE lessons, this time focusing on the question: Is Easter a time of sadness or joy? 

We questioned what these different emotions were and explored how our positive feelings were more than just 'happy' and our negative feelings were more…

Middle school have begun their new class topic of exploration, lending nicely into their geography topic of maps and mapreading.

We begun by investigating what maps were for and why we might need them.

We then investigated all of the different types of maps we can find - some were better for…

This week we had another very special guest visit us! 
Pagpa is a Buddhist monk at the Buddhist centre in Preson who came in to share what he does with the children. We learned about what Buddhists believe in and how they carry out their beliefs. The children in middle school had many interesting…

The children are busy learning about doubles and near doubles this week as part of their maths learning. We will be playing lots of games and learning the doubles facts by heart, please keep practising at home.