Year 1 PSHE Feelings and Trusted Adults
🌟 Our Year 1 pupils have had a wonderful PSHE session using our SCARF resources this week! 🧣✨ The children spent time discussing big emotions, exploring how to express their feelings, and identifying their trusted adults—the people they can always turn to at school and at home when they need support or a chat. They created some fantastic work and showed great maturity during our circle-time discussions. Well done, Year 1! 👏❤️ #Year1 #PSHE #SCARFLearning #EmotionalWellbeing #TrustedAdults #PrimaryEducation
Year 1 PE - Developing Talking, Listening and Sharing Skills
Year 1 have been working hard in PE using our Get Set 4 PE curriculum. This week, the children focused on team-building activities designed to develop their talking, listening, and sharing skills. From guiding partners through challenges to working together in small groups, they showed fantastic communication and teamwork throughout the hall. Brilliant effort from everyone involved. #Year1 #GetSet4PE #Teamwork #PhysicalEducation #CommunicationSkills #PrimaryPE
Nursery And Pre-School - Art - Scissor Skills
Our children have been developing their creative and fine motor skills this week through a hands-on autumn art focus! The children practiced their scissor skills by carefully cutting out a variety of seasonal, autumn-themed pictures. They concentrated on holding and controlling their scissors correctly as they worked around different shapes and edges. Once their pictures were cut, the children put their visual discrimination skills to work by matching each autumnal object directly to its corresponding shadow outline on the page. This activity provided a fantastic opportunity for the children to combine physical precision with problem-solving, strengthening the hand muscle control and hand-eye coordination needed for creative expression and everyday independence.
Year 4 Computing - Enhancing Animations
Year 4 have been learning about and creating animations in their computing lessons. This week, Year 4's challenge was to enhance and edit their frames with backgrounds and sounds to create a sequence of smooth animation. The enhanced animated creations were amazing! We enjoyed watching what different animations had been created and can't wait for our next computing lesson!
Year 4 Science - Bird hunt and classification
Following on from our leaf hunt last week, Year 4 continued their hunting skills, but this time looking for birds! We enjoyed searching the school grounds for the different types of birds, ticking them off our sheet once found. When we came back to class, we researched the birds we had found and came up with questions that could be used to help classify them.
Year 6 - Communion
Year 6 visited church this week for a special Holy Communion service. The children helped lead the worship by sharing their own prayers, and everyone enjoyed staying afterwards to share lunch together.
Year 6 - English - Setting Descriptions
This term, Year 6 have loved diving into the story of Rose Blanche. To help them imagine life as Rose, the children wrote their own setting descriptions from her point of view. We placed pictures from the book around the classroom, and the children worked together to gather words and phrases describing what Rose could see, hear, and feel. It was wonderful to see them helping each other plan, and their finished descriptions show great imagination and empathy.
School Council- Local Community - Litter Picking
Making Our Community Shine: School Council Litter Pick Our newly appointed School Councillors took their first steps into the local community this week to lend a helping hand to the Blackburn with Darwen litter picking scheme. Armed with grabbers, high-vis vests, and plenty of enthusiasm, the team headed out to clear the rubbish left behind in our local park. The children showed incredible dedication to their new roles, scouring the paths and green spaces to ensure the park is a cleaner, safer place for everyone to enjoy. Their hard work paid off massively, collecting two full bags of rubbish before heading back to school. A huge well done to our council team on a brilliant first outing. You’ve set a fantastic example for the rest of the school and proved just how much of a difference a bit of community spirit can make!
Nursery And Pre-School - P.E - Ball Skills
This week, the children in Nursery and Preschool thoroughly enjoyed their energetic PE session with Liam from Sports Cool. The focus of the lesson was all about developing confidence with ball handling, hand-eye coordination, and spatial awareness through fun, active challenges. The children worked hard on practicing their fundamental ball skills, including throwing and catching. They focused on tracking the ball with their eyes and using two hands to secure it, building both their gross motor control and reaction times. Liam encouraged the children to adjust their stance and use soft, ready hands when receiving the ball from a partner or coach. To finish the session, the children put their accuracy to the test by practicing rolling a ball towards a specific target. This required a great deal of control, concentration, and patience, as they judged how much force to apply and aimed carefully to hit their mark. The children celebrated each other's successes with lots of cheering and enthusiasm, showing fantastic teamwork and sportsmanship throughout the entire lesson.
Reception - Expressive Arts - Self Portraits
Our Reception children have been busy exploring their creative skills by drawing their very own self-portraits. Looking carefully in mirrors, the children looked closely at their unique features, practicing fine motor control to draw shapes and lines for their faces, eyes, and hair.
Nursery/Pre-School-Physical Development-Tuesday Trails
Nursery and Preschool really enjoyed their first Tuesday Trails with Mrs Corbally. The children practised putting on their wellies and coats independently and then went in our outdoor environment to explore the world outside. The children made leaf water and mixed it with the different size sticks that we found together. The children developed their gross and fine motor skills jumping in the muddy puddles and picking up the different size leaves from the fallen trees.
Reception-Phonics-S
Our Reception children have taken their exciting first step into phonics learning by exploring the 's' sound! Through fun, hands-on activities, we have enjoyed discovering objects starting with 's', practising saying the sound clearly, and tracing its shape.
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