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Lower School were unbelievably excited to see the hall transformed with all the apparatus. They listened carefully to our safety rules before starting the timed rotations on the different apparatus. They supported one another with compassion and remembered our safety rules (including no jumping…

Well done to our middle school team who played football at Garstang Academy on Wednesday evening. We worked amazingly as a team! Well done team!

Middle school have been looking at word problems that use addition and subtraction. Children were paired up and given challenges to solve together, including shape problems, word problems and abstract thinking problems.

What a fantastic visit Y5/6 had to Quarry Bank Mill! We started off in the Apprentice Mill Workers’ House where we found out about the food they were given, the work they did, how long their working day was and where they slept. The children were all very knowledgeable about what life was like for…

Well done to Daniel and Tommy who won the Y5/6 Handwriting Competition this week! It was a very difficult decision as there were lots of pieces of excellent handwriting but these two just had to be the winners with their beautiful joined up writing and consistent letter formations. 

Lower School have really risen to the weekly spelling challenges and are improving their scores week by week! Last week, Lower School enjoyed searching for various graphemes (written sounds) in the newspapers and a range of books. They also enjoyed the roll and write challenge to practise their…

Lower School love their PE lessons with Corey! Last week, Lower School learnt how to listen to each other's instructions and pass a small ball carefully to one another. Well done, little ones!

We love visiting the Library Van (and the wonderful Glenys the Librarian!) and having the chance to explore the shelves and boxes for exciting new books to borrow!

As part of our topic on the rainforest, we looked at some art by Henri Rousseau, who painted lots of vibrant and detailed pictures of the jungle. We aimed to use this to inspire some of our own work.

each child was given a snippet of the famous ‘tiger in a tropical storm’ painting, where they…

For our science topic, we are investigating the question ‘How do plants grow?’ 
Before this week, we had finished preparing our knowledge, we had planned our investigation and we had assured that we would be making this a fair test. Now we were ready to find out for ourselves.

five pots were…

In today’s Art lesson, the children were given the challenge of describing an abstract piece of art for a partner to draw without looking. The class sat back to back to describe the painting called ‘Five’ by Lubaina Himid. They did so well with their descriptions and the children’s pictures looked…

The Upper School children investigated soluble and insoluble materials today by trying to dissolve several different solids into cold water such as sand, salt, flour, sugar, gravy granules and instant coffee. They made predictions about each one and worked in groups to test their ideas. The…