27 April 2018

Clay Hedgehogs

In class this week, we have been looking closely at sculptures and we each used clay to creat our own hedgehog sculpture.


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20 April 2018

Dragon Eggs

There have been strange eggs found in our garden area.  Have we had a visit from a dragon?

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13 April 2018

New Science Topic Alert!

Next week, we will be beginning an exciting new science topic about PLANTS.  The children have all gone home with some homework to find out everything they can about PLANTS.  The children can write, draw, photograph or even record all the things they know about plants.  We cannot wait to see what…

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26 March 2018

Easter Egg Hunt

Well, the sun shone brightly for our final afternoon of the term and our surprise 'Easter Egg Hunt'.  All the children in EYFS and KS1 had a fabulous time hunting for the eggs that the Easter bunny had hidden in the school grounds.

Have a happy and safe Easter holiday!

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9 March 2018

Celebrating Mums and Others Who Look After Us Like a Mum

We celebrated our mothers and those who look after us like mothers this afternoon.  With limited time to practise, the children put together a beautiful assembly to say "THANK YOU".  Here are some photographs from the afternoon.

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9 March 2018

Engineering in Year 1

In Year 1, we have marked 'Engineering Week' by completing an engineering challenge.  Linking with our science and geography topics, we needed to find the windiest place in our school grounds.  We decided to make kites.  We looked at and evaluated different kites, tested materials and selected the…

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8 March 2018

Cheer Leading

Mrs Smith from 'Chorley Schools Partnership' is visiting us each Tuesday afternoon to teach us how to cheer lead and we are learning a new routine!  Here we are busy practising.

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3 March 2018

Book Week 2018

WOW!  What an amazing Book Week we have had this year!

We met author's, 'Secret Story Tellers', made character potatoes, introduced 'Reading Champions', taken part in competitions and been awarded reading certificates...phew!!!

The children have had a very busy and very inspiring week and…

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9 February 2018

Reaching The Sun!

WOW!

Even more readers have reached the SUN!

Congratulations!

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9 February 2018

What's Cooking?

In RE, we have been learning all about the Passover and the special food that is eaten during the Passover meal to remind the Jews of their escape into the Wilderness.  At the celebratory meal, flat bread is eaten.  It remained flat as the Jews did not have time to wait for the bread to rise,…

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2 February 2018

Using the iPads

In Year 1 today we have been using the iPads to take pictures and videos. Children were put into teams of two and were given a checklist of different things to take pictures and videos of. Children had to go around the school and use the iPads to record videos of each other, and take pictures of…

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24 January 2018

Algorithms in Year 1

As part of out computing curriculum, we have been creating algorithms.  An algorithm is a set of commands that produce an outcome.  We used ourselves (as robots), a computer program and the Bee Bots to input commands to enable an action.  We had to direct the mouse to the cheese, the human robots…

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