Mothering Sunday
We have been learning about the meaning of Mothering Sunday to Christians. On the fourth Sunday of Lent, three weeks before Easter Sunday we visit our ‘mother church’ and give thanks. In the past, it was a day when children, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day to visit their…
Persuasive Devices in Advertisements
Upper School have been exploring the question: how does media influence people?
We have focused on advertisement and how different strategies are used to persuade people to buy products. We discussed the use of catchy names, powerful descriptions, graphics, bold claims, celebrity endorsements,…
Digitally Enhancing Photos
This afternoon, Upper School have utilised their computing skills to enhance photographs in creative ways…
Learning about Hinduism
We have had a great visit from Prags Birk today who came to talk to us about Hinduism. We have learnt so much by looking at different artefacts learning what they represent and how they are used. We had the chance to ask Prags lots of questions and compare Christianity to Hinduism.
Prags…
RE- Learning about Hinduism
This afternoon, Upper School had a visit from Prags who came to talk to us about being a Hindu. She told us all about her very interesting life and some of the important traditions of being part of a Hindu community/family. The children were fascinated by her stories and particularly about her…
Let's Go Sing!
Many children from KS2 had an amazing time on Friday night performing at Sing Together for a huge audience in Blackburn.
The children did an absolutely amazing job of performing the songs we have been practicing with passion and professionalism. We all had a super fun time and took it as a…
Middle School Handball
Last Wednesday a fantastic group of girls from year 3 and 4 went to Garstang Academy to play handball against other small schools in the area.
The team worked wonderfully together and we came a close second place in our games! Well done team!
Snow Day!
Middle school loved enjoying the snow on Friday morning!
We started off practicing some handwriting in the snow, and then moved on to creating some snow men!
Busy Friday
We started our week looking at signs of Spring in glorious sunny weather and have ended our week in snow this morning! It’s been an interesting weather watching week which has raised questions about climate change and amazed us (especially as now as the day ends we have glorious sunshine again and…
Toys and Games In The Past
A huge thank you to Mr Proctor for visiting us this afternoon to tell us all about the toys and games he used to play when he was a little boy!
Before he began talking Mr Proctor had us all time travel back 73 years to when he was 7 years old! Once we were back in 1950 then he began showing…
Old Bear
In our history lessons we are learning about the past in family life, to help us understand how people lived in the past and learn about changes we are looking at toys, old and new.
Today Mrs Welsh brought in a 103 year old teddy that she was given when she was a little girl. We compared…
Creative Portraits
Upper School have been exploring the identities represented in Tudor portraits. We learnt that portraits were used to signal many things including three main aspects: character, status and power.
We then explored modern-day portraits, including digital and mixed media portraits. Some of us…