Image of Y5 - Parent Lunch
17 Apr

Y5 - Parent Lunch

Year 5 parents joined their children today to sample dinner time in the hall and share the experience of enjoying our lovely school dinner. It was great seeing so many parents.

Image of Reception - Purple Mash - Spring Flowers
16 Apr

Reception - Purple Mash - Spring Flowers

Reception Class have been using the Purple Mash program- 2Paint to create their flowers. The children had to select their paint and use the toolbar to adjust the thickness of their paint. They used the pen on the interactive board to place their marks and create their flowers.

Image of Reception - Comparing Cars Move Down Ramps
16 Apr

Reception - Comparing Cars Move Down Ramps

Today Reception class have been comparing how different cars and othher objects move down the ramps. The children observed that the cars went faster when the ramp was at more of an incline. The children then extended this activity by building ramps using different objects and they used boxes and blocks to create different structures to roll their cars down.

Image of Year 1 - R.E - Baptism
16 Apr

Year 1 - R.E - Baptism

Year 1 are learning about Baptism in R.E. In this lesson we were exploring different forms of Baptism ceremonies from around the world. We talked about the images and wrote down our thoughts and questions.

Image of Year 1 - Textiles
16 Apr

Year 1 - Textiles

Year 1 are learning about weaving in our Art unit of Textiles. In these photographs, the children are embellishing strips of fabric with pom poms, glitter and sticky shapes. In our next lesson, they will use these to weave a whole class piece of work.

Image of Year 5 - Holy Communion
16 Apr

Year 5 - Holy Communion

Year 5 enjoyed Holy Communion and then had dinner with Rev Kevin and the congregation at St James' parish.

Image of Two's Room, Exploring Transport.
15 Apr

Two's Room, Exploring Transport.

We have been busy exploring the different types of transport that we have. We have enjoyed playing in the tuff tray with the trucks, filling and emptying them with the different cereals. We had fun using the ramps to see how far the cars could go. We had fun colouring in the different pictures of transport too using paints and felt tips.

Image of Pre school - Maths
15 Apr

Pre school - Maths

Racing cars The children enjoyed racing different cars down the ramp to see which number it landed on. The children subitise how many cars landed on the same number and recognised numbers 1-5.

Image of Reception Class - Story Time - Whatever Next!
12 Apr

Reception Class - Story Time - Whatever Next!

Today during story time the children acted out the different parts of our story Whatever Next! baby Bear and Owl met up and flew to the moon on a fantastic adventure! The children had remembered lots of vocabulary from the story and they were able to sequence the different events.

Image of Pre-School - Transport
12 Apr

Pre-School - Transport

In Understanding the world this week we have looked at old and new transport. We looked at different pictures of new transport and we recognised a lot of them but then we looked at old transport pictures and how they used to be. The children picked out features and questioned why it was like that. We then played a matching game with the objects and pictures.

Image of Mrs Simms and Mrs Williamson - A New Adventure Awaits!
11 Apr

Mrs Simms and Mrs Williamson - A New Adventure Awaits!

On Friday we say a sad farewell to Mrs Simms and Mrs Williamson as they leave us for pastures new. We would like to thank them for all of their hard work and dedication at Darwen St James. I am sure you will join us in wishing them luck for the future. Mrs Williamson and I would like to send a heartfelt thank you for all your support over the last 13 years whilst we have been at Darwen St James, however this Friday will be our last day in school as we both move on to new adventures. We would also like to thank the children for all their hard work and dedication over the years and we are sure they will continue to flourish throughout the years to come.

Image of Year 4 - Art - Paul Klee
11 Apr

Year 4 - Art - Paul Klee

Today in Art we have been looking at the work of Paul Klee and his use of complementary colours.