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After discussing ways in which we are going to take greater responsibility and care of our planet this year the children chose to make posters to remind everyone around school how to.

Welcome back to school and to Spring Term 2023, it has been so lovely to see all your lovely children back in school again ready for a fresh term!

After sharing all our news from the holiday break we talked about our plans for the new year. As a class we have pledged to make a bigger effort to…

This half term, we are exploring portraits and what they portray. 
 

We analysed a portrait of Henry VIII and discussed how it portrayed power, status and character. We then created our own versions to portray contrasting messages…

Over the next few weeks, Upper School will be exploring ‘Kaspar - Prince of Cats’ by Michael Morpurgo. So far, we have compared alternative book covers, clarified vocabulary, practised active listening skills (we like doing this in Upper School! Doodling with intention!) and made many…

This week, Upper School have started their new topic…The Tudors! Their first challenge was to use secondary resources to find possible answers for their crossword clues. They learnt lots of new vocabulary and were able to recall meanings later on too! 
 

Thank you once again to Mrs Billington for cooking such a delicious Christmas lunch this year and thank you to the mums from Friends who kindly served it and cleared away afterwards! It was a special time being able to sit, eat and celebrate altogether. 

As you can see from these photos we had so much fun celebrating Christmas time with a visit to Lowther Pavillion in Latham to see the pantomime Cinderella (which we thoroughly enjoyed - Oh no you didn’t, Oh YES we did!) a very busy Christmas party (so busy I only managed to take three photos!) and…

We were very excited in Upper School to accept the challenge proposed by Reverend Paul to decorate one of St Peter's Church windowsills for the Christmas services. We went down to Church and looked at the space we had, measuring it so that we knew what we had to work with and then we went to…

Our Sports Coach Corey told us that his Sports Foundation Fleetwood Town were supporting lonely people this Christmas, our Middle School pupils decided to create their own Christmas cards to let others know that they aren't alone this Christmas. Corey was over the moon with our pupils'…

Middle School enjoyed their Christmas party on Wednesday! We kicked the party off with some fun group quizzes and games. Next, we played the pass the parcel kindly donated by Friends - luckily, we all won something! After that we played party games including musical statues, musical bumps and…

On Tuesday, middle school had a creative afternoon making layered collage cards. We could only use coloured paper, scissors and glue! The children chose their own special message to put inside. We had some beautiful cards!

The children applied the skills they learnt previously (creating autumn leaves see here https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-10-13-14-49-13-painting-autumn-leaves ) to create the background sky using wax resist and watercolour inks to create a picture representing the sky above St Paul’s…