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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…

Our art topic for this half term is Ancient Egyptian Scrolls, inspired by our topic in history. Children have been looking at the colours and patterns often represented in ancient Egyptian art. They have been looking at how they can adapt this into a representation of themselves. Fantastic…

In our PE topic this half term we are looking at dance and the topic myths and legends. We begun with the myth of king Midas and his golden touch. Children imagined what it was like to be Midas and his daughter, Marigold, at different stages of the myth’s story. They translated these emotions and…

We had another wonderful visit from let’s go sing this week! The children in middle school loved joining in on the fun singing exercises and learning the new songs. They all did so well at learning and singing - we do have a talented lot!

In our first lesson of gymnastics, the children firstly worked in pairs to create a matched and a mirrored balance using examples on pictures around the hall. They learnt to hold still their balances for at least 3 seconds and to use a stretched, taut body. A lot of the next part of the lesson was…

Reception have been busy bees counting groups of items and playing lots of games that help with the recognition of the numerals 1-10. We have been jumping and counting, playing interactive games, playing matching games and singing different songs.

They are learning that careful counting is…

Year 1 and 2 have been so enthusiastic to learn our new handwriting! We are using a 'continuous cursive' style which means they are learning to form letters in a way that will help them join up letters in the future - when they are ready.

We started our journey with lots of fine motor skill…

We really enjoyed our second Let’s Go Sing rehearsal with Gaynor yesterday! She taught us some fun warm up songs and we loved learning the new dance moves and Makaton signs for the next set of concert songs. Don’t forget to go online and continue learning the words at home!  
 

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As part of our PSHE work, the Upper School Class have set themselves challenges to achieve something or get better at something this half term. This could be sport related or mental health related. Oliver enjoys using his Rubik’s Cubes to help him overcome difficult situations and last week he…