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The Year 5 and 6s have worked so hard these past few weeks to learn and rehearse their end of year play-Frankie & Me. It’s all coming together now and we had our first audience today-Corey! He smiled and laughed his way through the performance and gave it 9/10 at the end. We can’t wait to perform…

This morning the Upper School class took part in a debate to decide who was responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet. The children were already in two groups- the feuding families-the Montagues and the Capulets and they had already prepared their arguments last week. Now all they had to do…

Over the last few weeks, Lower School has been thoroughly enjoying our Robots topic! 
 

The Year 1’s and Reception have been loving reading ‘No-Bot…The Robot With No Bottom!’ and we have all enjoyed exploring short stories and animations featuring robots.

Lower School have also enjoyed…

Over the last few weeks, we have been focusing on our Sports Afternoon and preparing for all the different races and activities. 
 

We have been learning how to work together in a relay race, how to hold a bow to aim at an archery target and how to move whilst balancing an object.

We are…

Upper School have been reading and studying Romeo and Juliet in our English lessons. This week we finished the play and discussed the themes that run through the plot. The children then divided into two groups, the Montagues and the Capulets. The objective was to prepare arguments for who was to…

As part of our ongoing topic of the lake district, the children have been looking at some of William Wordsworth's poems. 

The children had to learn one of his poems off by heart in a small group - they were then to recite this poem to the rest of the class!

You can watch their recital down…

This week middle school have had a bit of a different PE experience! They have had a try at archery in order to prepare for the archery event at the upcoming sports afternoon. 

Children all learned very quickly and did well at the activity!

It was wonderful to be able to take 19 children from Y5/6 to Garstang Academy  to take part in a rounders tournament with several other small schools in the area. So many children signed up that I had to put them into two teams to take part! The first match was against each other which actually…

Our little Rainbow group have been working so hard to recognise numbers to 20 and counting out various items. We have also been practising how to form the written numbers 0 - 10 and doing an incredible job!

Lower School have been learning about our incredible human bodies. We have talked about different parts of the body, our skeletons and our incredible senses! 
 

Over the past couple of weeks, Year 2 have been enchanted by our new magical story - ‘Leon and the Place Between’. We have made predictions, carried on parts of the story, written incredible setting descriptions and discussed all the different stories and films our book has reminded us of.

We…

Lower School have been busy exploring materials and their properties. They worked so hard to investigate which materials would keep teddy dry…and have explored magnetic materials too…

Super stars!!