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More pictures from our adventure!

Year 6 had an amazing day at Hothersall Lodge! We began the day on canoes in lovely warm sunshine and enjoyed learning to paddle, to work together and competed in fun canoeing games. After that there was only one thing to do…jump in the lake and cool off! 
After our yummy packed lunches were…

Our art project this half term has been to create some collages of minibeasts. I chose minibeasts for the children to create as they have studied them throughout two of their science topics this year most recently last half term when looking at living things and their habitats. Take a look back at…

We had an exciting afternoon on Friday when the builders from the site building new houses next to our school very kindly brought us some soil for our mud pit and lots of gravel to level out an area that has been used for a lot of digging over the past year! 

Thank you so much to Sam Swaine the…

Building upon our knowledge of everyday materials and how we use them, this week the children have been investigating how to recycle, reduce and reuse materials. They thought about all the different types of objects that we use daily at home and in school and learnt which of the materials can be…

We had a lovely day on Monday when all of our new for September Reception children came to visit us for the day. 

We welcomed Matilda, Jasmine, Lily, Ethan, Luca, Theo and Alfred. The children settled brilliantly, they enjoyed playing, chatting and eating lunch. We can’t wait to see you again…

Middle school have had a very busy week this week! We have been completing our final assessments for this year, being able to show off all of the wonderful things that we have learned since September. Every single child has worked so hard with their revision activities during the mornings and with…

This week children from year 2 got a chance to join middle school for a taster day alongside our wonderful year 3s. 
We did plenty of brilliant activities throughout the day.

Our lovely year 2s were keen to show off their skills with maths and English. We used our maths knowledge in an 'escape…

On our final week at the curling rink, Upper School enjoyed playing in teams of three against each other. One player was ‘skip’, one was a ‘sweeper’ and one throwing the stones. The success rate was much better this week with many of the children’s shots going into the ‘house’ (target). The…

Mrs Cadwallader brought history to life for us last week by bringing in two photos of herself on holiday at the beach when she was a little girl. I was so impressed by our children’s knowledge as they applied what we had learnt a couple of weeks ago (have a look back here …

Today Upper School learnt about biodiversity and how important it is. We also went out into the school grounds and conducted our own biodiversity study (minibeast hunt) to see how biodiverse our field actual is…

Altogether, we found 8 different species but our grassland key that we were using…

On Monday, Year 4 became Year 5s for the day and joined current Year 5 s in Upper School. They enjoyed a themed day learning about Explorers. Two of the explorers they found out about were John Ainsworth Horrocks, from Preston, and Alfred Wainwright from Blackburn.

 John Ainsworth Horrocks was…