21 March 2016

Year 4 received a very important letter today.....

Year 4 were very excited today to receive a letter with a House of Commons stamp on the front.  The letter was from Lindsay Hoyle thanking us for his recent visit and how much he enjoyed meeting the class and answering their questions.  He is looking forward to coming back to visit us, so that he…

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18 March 2016

Spring Detectives in Reception!

We took advantage of the lovely spring weather this week to get out onto the school field and look for signs of spring. We found lots of spring flowers, buds on trees, insects and birds. It looks like Spring is well on its way!

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18 March 2016

Living and Non living

This week Year Two have been investigating living and non living things in our surrounding area. We found out that if something is living it has to breath, move and eat. If something is man made then it has never been alive. Look at the photos to see what we found.

 

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18 March 2016

Visit to Chorley Mosque!

 

This week Year Three and Four visited the Mosque in Chorley. Thankfully it was a beautiful morning and we set off walking for the Mosque in warm sunshine. During the visit the children learnt about the customs of the Muslim faith and were given a guided tour of the Mosque, giving them…

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18 March 2016

Visit to Chorley Mosque

Year 4 visited the Dawatul Islamic Mosque in Chorley on Thursday. The children walked to and from the Mosque, which is an achievement in itself! They had a tour of the mosque, went into the school room where they looked at the Qu'ran. They also listened to a call to prayer and visited the prayer…

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18 March 2016

MP visits Year 4

Year 4 had a very special visitor on Friday 11th March. Lindsay Hoyle MP came to our class to speak all about being an MP and "What's your story Chorley?" 

Our homework this week is to produce a piece of writing all about Chorley which will be entered into the competition.

 

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15 March 2016

Best of British

On Friday we went to Parklands to watch their 'Best of British' performance.  It was a fantastic show full of singing, dancing and laughter.  It was obvious that a lot of hard work had gone into the production.  Here is what some of our class thought of the show:

 

I liked that the teacher…

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14 March 2016

NSPCC Visit

Year 3 and 4 were visited today by Chris and Joan from the NSPCC.  We learned that NSPCC stands for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.  They spoke to us about the different worries and problems that some children might have and we thought about how this might make some…

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11 March 2016

Book Week in Reception

Fun activities for Book Week!

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11 March 2016

Times Table Fun!

In Maths this week Year 3 have been focusing on multiplciation. We have been practising our times tables as well as learning to use grid method for written multiplication. To help us learn the 3 x table facts we have been listening to a 3 x table song to the tune of Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars, the…

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10 March 2016

Science

During our science lessons on light we have been learning about Isaac Newton and his theory of colours.

 We then created our own puppets and performed a shadow show dramatizing the dispute between Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke over Newton’s theory of light and colour.

Some of us even wrote…

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9 March 2016

Times Tables Champions

Just look at all the children who have reached the top of our times tables ladder.  They all know their times tables facts up to 12 x 12, as well as the associated division facts.  Well done!  Some children are very close to reaching the top of our ladder, so keep up the hard…

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