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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. 
 

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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. 
 

The children have thoroughly enjoyed their DT project learning about levers and linkages. Please take a look at these photographs to see the children progress through the various stages of making their moving monsters. Keep looking right to the end photos to see the children with their finished…

As part of our learning about families and how we grow and change over time our Reception children have painted pictures of themselves this week. 
 

The children looked closely at their features in mirrors as they drew a picture of themselves in pencil first. Then they mixed colours as they…

During our final lesson learning about the significance of the book of Exodus in the Bible, Upper School found out about the Jewish festival of Passover and the Seder Plate that they use to symbolise the Israelite’s escape from Egypt. We watched a video of a Jewish boy from Manchester preparing…

Today we learnt about Buddhism when we had a visit from Pagpa a Buddhist monk.  Pagpa explained what Buddhism is and how he has lived his life as a monk for the last 27 years, it was very interesting. Pagpa explained the significance of his clothes to us, the maroon coloured skirt is called a…

Today we had a fascinating lesson given by Pagpa, a Buddhist monk from the Preston Buddhist Centre, who taught us about the religion of Buddhism. The children could immediately see the similarities between Christianity and Buddhism but were also very interested in the differences. They…