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20 Oct

Year 5 Guided Reading

Our Year 5 children have been performing a space themed poem in groups. The children learnt to effectively use their tone of voice, actions and their pitch to create an amazing performance.

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20 Oct

Year 5 Music

Our Year 5 children have been learning to play the glockenspiel and learning about Egyptian style music. Playing the glockenspiel gives children a hands-on introduction to melody and note reading while developing precision, ensemble teamwork, and rhythmic confidence.

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19 Oct

Nursery And Pre-School - Science - Pumpkin Potions

Our children have eagerly been diving into sensory science this week at the malleable tray! The table was packed with a mysterious seasonal mixture of pumpkins, gooey pulp, slime, and various surprise treasures hidden throughout the concoction. The children used their senses to explore all the different, contrasting textures, describing how things felt as they squeezed and squelched. They put their physical skills to work by scooping, pouring, and stirring the materials together to brew their very own magical potions, developing early scientific curiosity through open-ended sensory investigation!

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19 Oct

Y1 and Y2 PSHE Road Safety

This week, Year 1 and Year 2 had a special visit from Michaela from Blackburn with Darwen Council to deliver an engaging Road Safety session as part of our PSHE curriculum. The children learnt all about the essential steps to stay safe when out and about: Think, Stop, Look, and Listen before stepping off the pavement Exploring different types of pedestrian crossings Crossing safely and waiting patiently for the green man To top it all off, the pupils have been set an exciting challenge: a design a high-vis vest competition with fantastic prizes up for grabs! We can't wait to see all the bright and creative designs. A huge thank you to Michaela for visiting us and helping our children stay safe.

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19 Oct

Year 1 Questful RE: How is the place where Jesus grew up different from how we live now?

This week, our Year 1 pupils have been busy exploring life in Jesus' time through hands-on learning in Religious Education.  The children took part in a range of activities to help them answer key questions about daily life in the past: Tasting and naming traditional foods that Jesus would have eaten, including matzos, figs, grapes, and olives  Learning about daily routines, including where Mary and Jesus collected their water  Exploring Jewish celebrations and special days that Jesus attended, such as Passover and Shabbat  It was a wonderful session where the pupils loved tasting new foods and comparing life long ago to how we live today!

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16 Oct

Nursery And Pre-School - Geography - Habitats

Our Nursery and Preschool children have been exploring the fascinating world of habitats this week! We began by thinking about where we live as humans and expanded our ideas to discover where different animals—like birds, squirrels, and hedgehogs—make their homes. The children then set off outdoors on a habitat hunt around our environment. They put their keen observational skills to work, spotting real-life animal homes like birds' nests, spider webs, and crunchy leaf piles. Inspired by what they found, the children gathered natural resources like sticks, leaves, and bark to build their own minibeast and animal habitats, thinking carefully about which creature would feel safe and cozy living inside. It was a brilliant, hands-on way for our young learners to build early geographical awareness and care for the natural world!

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16 Oct

Year 3 - R.E. - Learning About Religious Leaders

Year 3 children explored different religious leaders today as part of their religious education. Pupils looked closely at various artefacts associated with Jewish and Muslim faiths, discussing their significance and asking thoughtful questions to deepen their understanding.

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15 Oct

Eco Ambassadors- Litter Picking Posters

Eco-Ambassadors First Meeting! 🌍 Huge congratulations to our newly voted Eco-Ambassadors, who had their very first meeting this week! Their top priority this term is tackling litter both on the school grounds and around our local community. During their meeting, the children got straight to work creating some vibrant anti-litter posters to encourage everyone to keep our school tidy. We were so impressed by their creativity and the incredible passion they showed when discussing why taking care of our environment matters so much. What a brilliant, thoughtful group of young leaders! Stay tuned to see their posters displayed around the school soon. Together, let’s help our Eco-Ambassadors keep our school green and litter-free!

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15 Oct

Year 3 - Computing - Sending And Receiving Emails

Year 3 have been busy in computing this week, learning all about digital communication. Using 2 Email on Purple Mash, the children explored how to safely send and receive messages, practise their typing skills, and understand how email correspondence works in a controlled environment.

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14 Oct

Year 1- Science-Using our senses

Year 1 have been using our sense of sight. We completed an activity course blindfolded. It was hard to move without being able to see.

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14 Oct

Year 4 English - Newspaper Reporter Role Play

Year 4's current area of study is newspapers. We have been looking at the different features of newspapers and decided what better way to get in the mindset of a news writer, than to have a go at reporting ourselves? It was lots of fun - we have some Year 4's who seemed natural in their role! No doubt this experience was a great foundation for us to begin compiling our own reports.

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14 Oct

Year 4 P.S.H.E. - Different Feelings

In P.S.H.E., Year 4 have been looking at how different feelings may affect us. As a class, we had some great discussions about how we feel can affect other areas, such as our happiness, how we interact with others, how we sleep and how we show our feelings through our body language to name a few! As you can see, Year 4 were pretty good at demonstrating how certain feelings could be represented without using words!