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9 March 2018

Year Two Engineering Week

Engineering Week

 

This half term we have looked at materials and famous explorers. So we decided as a class that we would design and build a ship of our own.

First we looked at different materials to see which ones would be waterproof and therefore be used within our designs. After that…

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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

Year 5 Engineering Challenge

Year 5 had great fun this week completing their engineeering challenge.  They had to design and make a cradle to carry a raw egg.  This was then dropped from an agreed height.  The aim was to keep the egg intact.

The children worked in groups of three on their design, thinking about suitable…

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8 March 2018

Snow!

Unfortunately I had to close school today due to the adverse weather conditions this morning.

Some of the staff were stuck on motorways or on driveways at home!

Looking out of my office window now, I can't believe it's the same day.

 

Thankyou for all your understanding today. School…

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8 March 2018

Reception Class go shopping!

Over the course of the the past two weeks all the children have had the opportunity to go on a visit to the local general store. It has taken two weeks as the weather prevented the second half of the class from safely enjoying the visit until yesterday, when  the trip went ahead, at last! The last…

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8 March 2018

World Book Day 2018

Reception Class thoroughly enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. They enjoyed sharing their favourite books with their friends and with the class and lots of children decided to make books of their own.

We had lots of really amazing entries for our potato book character competition. It was so…

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8 March 2018

STEM Challenge Year 4!

In year 4 this week we had great fun completing a STEM challenge and being construction engineers! The children’s challenge was to build an egg cradle so when it dropped it didn’t break. First we spoke about different types of engineers and we also spoke about joining materials and strengthening…

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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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7 March 2018

RE - Jesus

In year 4 we have started our new topic all about Jesus. 

We looked at the Easter story and discussed the sacrifice that Jesus made for others. 

We then discussed three different people: Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King. As a class we discussed what they sacrificed. The…

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6 March 2018

STEM Challenge!

In Year 3 today we have had great fun completing a STEM challenge and being construction engineers! Children had to build a tower and then a Maya temple using only cocktail sticks and midget gems! First we discussed how a tower needs support to stand and how best to achieve this using the…

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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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