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The children in Middle and Upper School are taking part in a virtual ‘Sing Together’ performance this term as it has not been possible to join the other schools from around Lancashire for a real concert at King George’s Hall as we normally do. Instead, we are learning four songs and will be video…

Not only have our children become used to meeting up on screen during lockdown, this week for the first time, 'Parents' Evenings' are also being held remotely via Teams! We still view this as a great opportunity to give feedback to parents about progress and targets.

Despite this, we still look…

The children have absolutely loved practising and singing the 'Let's go sing' songs this week. They have particularly enjoyed 'the scuttled sloop' - a pirate song. They have nailed the actions! Well done middle school!

During RE, the children considered the beauty of the world around them and linked this to the creation story. They explored the playground and outdoor areas for things that they found particularly interesting or pretty and wrote about them. 
Children then wrote their own prayer to thank God for…

Middle school enjoyed the sunshine in their maths lesson by going out and practising their bus stop method. The children drew cards from a number pack for either two-digit problems, three-digit problems or even four-digit problems! They then worked these problems out on the playground or on the…

The children in Year 5/6 completed their paper flowers which are now on display in the classroom. To follow on from this, we began designing and making wire sculptures of flowers. 
It was really fiddly but really rewarding when we could start to see the flower shapes coming together. 
 

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Some of the children in KS2 came into school in their scouts or brownies uniform today in celebration of St George’s Day -the English Patron Saint.
Legend has it that George slew a dragon and we like to think that we have slain our own dragons in school today through perseverance and hard work in…

We play a game called tip the can at playtime.  It is like manhunt and hide and seek. You need more than 3 people to play this game. 

There is one seeker who counts to sixty while the others hide. Then the seeker goes to find the others. While they are seeking, the others have to try and get to…

It’s Earth Day every day but today we marked the official Earth Day with some beautiful new books. We have started reading them and they are sparking interesting questions and discussions. 

Each day in our phonics lessons we practice sounds we have already learnt, words we use in our sentences often and then we learn a new sound. We like to learn in fun ways, today we practiced reading and writing words with the ‘ur’ sound in them outside in our fabulous outdoor learning…

We have been busy making our brains bigger this week doing lots of different maths activities. The Reception children have been looking at numbers to 20 and beyond. They have been using tens frames to make a full ten and then more to understand numbers beyond ten. They have also been playing bingo…

Each day in Upper School, we watch Newsround to keep up to date with what is going on in the UK and the rest of the world. There is always an interesting mix of current affairs, sport and nature stories shown and this week we have been following the reports of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral and…