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To round off our poetry topic in English, the children have practiced and performed poems in front of the class.
Children split into 5 groups, each with a different poem to learn:
- Friends
- Bed in summer
- The Tyger
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
- The highwayman
Children then rehersed…

This afternoon the children of Upper School Class continued their learning about why Christians celebrate the Eucharist by visiting our church-St Peter’s where Rev Paul met us. We looked at the altar and the sacred Holy Communion articles. The children learnt some of the words spoken during the…

In Upper School, we’ve been learning about how to record and search for information using a flat-file data base.  We began by making our own paper system and quickly realised how limiting this system is. 
Using one of our child-friendly data bases, we’ve been able to answer questions by posing…

The Upper School children have continued their study of Joan Miro with a lesson on ‘automatic’ drawing. The surrealist movement were very interested in creating art through the subconscious and Miro explored this himself by allowing his mind to be emptied and drawing whatever his pen or brush…

Our Eco monitors, who are Duke and Alex this week, have been kept busier than usual this week as they’ve had extra plants to care for! We already have two Peace Lillies, a fern, a succulent and a Spider Plant but this week I brought in there ‘mystery’ plants.

The groups of children have been…

To finish our history learning (looking at significant explorers in the past) we looked at a modern explorer this week. Zara Rutherford has just broken records to be the youngest woman at 19yrs old to fly around the world solo in a microlight this week. 
 

The children thought about where they…

Our Reception children have had a great week as you can see from the photos below. We have been busy winter explorers looking for winter birds and learning about the different birds we are likely to see during the winter months.

We have been exploring capacity by filling different containers…

We have been looking at the geography of our local area in lessons, first considering the human and physical aspects around us. Secondly, we began to look at if Inskip and the land around us was always the same as it had been?
Thanks to the wonderful people at Lancashire Archives we were sent…

Middle school have been learning about keeping fit and healthy in their Science lessons. This week, we  looked at our skeleton. 
We considered what our skeleton's job was and why it is the way it is. We looked at what the different bones in our bodies were called (with help of our…

Great improvements have been made in our gymnastics lessons over the past couple of weeks so that the Upper School children are now able to work and communicate competently with a partner to produce and perform short acrobatic sequences. Today they learnt about counter-balances and how to trust…

Continuing our learning about significant explorers the children researched and learnt about Amelia Earhart the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 and Ibn Battuta a scholar who travelled for 29 years exploring in the early 1300s. 

The children used iPads to research the…

This week we have begun our story writing based upon the fabulous story “We Are Going On A Bear Hunt” written by Michael Rosen linked to our theme ‘Explorers’. 

Most of the children are already familiar with the story and it is one of our favourites so we made it extra special by performing it…