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We have started reading a new novel in our English lessons. It is call The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf. It is all about a new pupil who joins the class under mysterious circumstances and he doesn’t seem to be able to speak. The narrator of the story is one of the pupils and tries…

To introduce our first history lesson of the year, we began with some historical inquiry skills. Being a historian is a lot like being a detective, you have to build a picture based on different clues. 
To start with, children were given various clues to a mystery. Each clue told a story by…

As part of our English for this half term, the children are beginning with looking at instructions. To begin, we identified the features of instructions by trying to follow some ourselves. The instructions we had were how to fold and make an origami crab. We did very well at following the…

This week in English we are beginning to look into writing instructions. Within instructions, children may need to use prepositions. To practice our prepositions, children moved around the room, writing their own sentences with prepositions. 

It was wet, it was cold, it was very, very muddy but 9 of our fantastic Y5 and 6 children took part in a cross country race at Garstang Community Academy with enthusiasm and determination. The boys’ race was first and after two gruelling laps of the school field completed, Leo came in at a very…

The Upper School children finished this half term’s English by organising themselves into groups to create, rehearse and perform their own role plays of significant events from the book Street Child. There were scenes from the workhouse, from the time Jim spent on the coal lighter, a scene showing…

Middle school had their rainforest day this week! Children brought in their cuddly toys and donated £1each to put towards the rainforest trust. 
We worked together on a rainforest themed escape room, then we created some wonderful descriptive writing pieces.

finally, we created a group…

This week, middle school have been learning about networks. We created our own networks, as well as understanding how computers send messages.

Children have completed their gymnastics routines with their groups this week. The children have practiced really hard and have performed a wonderful routine using balances, rolls and jumps.
 

Here are a few more pictures of our visit to the Mill...

Lower School love learning to count! We enjoy counting the dinner choices on a morning and comparing the numbers saying which one is the greatest / biggest / most and which one is the least / smallest. We enjoy counting out objects, counting on a number line, counting our toys...

We are…

Whilst Reception have been busy mark making, exploring stories and learning to form letters (S, A and T) Year 1 and 2 have been busy revising sounds, learning how to apply these sounds to blend for reading and learning how to segment for spelling words. 

We want to 'BEAT OUR SCORE' every week…