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Continuing our science learning about plants the children have been investigating what makes a plant grow and how does it stay healthy by setting up an investigation. 

They tested their theory that a plant needs water, light, the right temperature and soil to be able to grow healthily by…

The children really enjoyed making a healthy wrap this week after accepting the challenge from Mrs Billington (see this previous post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-31-16-00-00-dt-design-challenge ). 

Building on their prior learning about different food groups the children sorted the…

Last week we received a letter from Mrs Billington our school cook asking us to help her design a new wrap for the school lunch menu.  Naturally we said yes, of course we will help!

The design brief was to create a healthy wrap. It must contain a protein, carbohydrate, vegetable or fruit and a…

After handing out our Easter biscuits that we hand made this morning, the children of Upper School put on a performance of the songs we have learnt over the last term. 
The first piece was You’ve Got a Friend by Carol King and as well as singing it brilliantly, the children performed an…

This morning, the children all took part in making Easter biscuits using a gluten free and low sugar recipe that we came up with to fit nicely with our, ‘Eat Like a Champ’ Science topic. 
The children measured out their own ingredients using their maths skills and mixed, rolled and cut out their…

At the end of our topic on Victorian childhood, Upper School wrote diaries as if they were a Victorian child in Inskip. Our 'Decade corridor exhibition' was extremely useful in providing us with real events that happened to children in Inskip during the Victorian times. Several wrote about the…

We have been reading picture books written and illustrated by the fabulous artist Petr Horacek over the past few weeks. The fiction theme of our topic ‘The Farm Shop’ led us to read ‘The Greedy Goat’ and ‘Look Out, Suzy Goose’ (which the children made the connection to another story we had read…

Middle school have been working very hard at their ukulele lessons in music. They are doing incredibly well and making great progress - almost everyone can play the chords C, F and G7 and know more than one song!
Here is what some of the children have shared:

'I can do F, C, F, C now!' - Beth,…

Middle school have had a very exciting change in our classroom recently... we have moved the whole room around and have a brand new whiteboard. 
The year 3 and 4 children are enjoying the new move around, especially with everyone being able to see and work from the board from their tables!
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After learning about the colour wheel and how to make secondary colours  (see previous blog post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-24-15-15-00-colour ) the children spent some time experimenting with mixing tertiary colours adding more and more of the primary colour to the mix to create…

We have been having a fabulous week exploring colour. We began by learning about the colour wheel and all the children learnt how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours. 
 

We used this fabulous picture book ‘Mixed’ by Aree Chung as a starting point for our learning. The story shows…

This afternoon, Upper School children did a tasting activity to investigate different types of biscuits. 
They analysed the amount of fat, sugar and salt in each type of biscuit and then made judgments about the taste, healthiness and presentation. 
It was really interesting to look at the…