RE -learning about the Eucharist
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…
How great are databases?
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…
Art-Automatic Drawing
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…
What are they?
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…
What would you pack in your Explorer’s Backpack?
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…
Reception’s learning
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…
How has Inskip changed over time?
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…
Skeletons and bones!
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…
Gymnastics-counter balances
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…
Amelia Earhart and Ibn Battuta
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…
Bear Hunting
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…
Jesus’ Special Friends
Following our learning last week where we talked and wrote about what it meant to be a good friend and who are our friends, this week we learnt about Jesus’ special friends.
We told the story ‘The Calling of the Disciples’ Luke 5: 1-11, Luke 5: 27-28 and the children retold the story through…