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Over the last few weeks, we have been focusing on our Sports Afternoon and preparing for all the different races and activities. 
 

We have been learning how to work together in a relay race, how to hold a bow to aim at an archery target and how to move whilst balancing an object.

We are…

Upper School have been reading and studying Romeo and Juliet in our English lessons. This week we finished the play and discussed the themes that run through the plot. The children then divided into two groups, the Montagues and the Capulets. The objective was to prepare arguments for who was to…

As part of our ongoing topic of the lake district, the children have been looking at some of William Wordsworth's poems. 

The children had to learn one of his poems off by heart in a small group - they were then to recite this poem to the rest of the class!

You can watch their recital down…

This week middle school have had a bit of a different PE experience! They have had a try at archery in order to prepare for the archery event at the upcoming sports afternoon. 

Children all learned very quickly and did well at the activity!

It was wonderful to be able to take 19 children from Y5/6 to Garstang Academy  to take part in a rounders tournament with several other small schools in the area. So many children signed up that I had to put them into two teams to take part! The first match was against each other which actually…

Our little Rainbow group have been working so hard to recognise numbers to 20 and counting out various items. We have also been practising how to form the written numbers 0 - 10 and doing an incredible job!

Lower School have been learning about our incredible human bodies. We have talked about different parts of the body, our skeletons and our incredible senses! 
 

Over the past couple of weeks, Year 2 have been enchanted by our new magical story - ‘Leon and the Place Between’. We have made predictions, carried on parts of the story, written incredible setting descriptions and discussed all the different stories and films our book has reminded us of.

We…

Lower School have been busy exploring materials and their properties. They worked so hard to investigate which materials would keep teddy dry…and have explored magnetic materials too…

Super stars!!

As part of our overall topic this term, the Lake District, children have been exploring artists who were inspired by the region. 

We began the lesson by watching some aerial footage of different places in the Lakes and were given 5 minutes to experiment with our new medium of watercolours.…

Our topic in science this half term is light and dark. 

Last week, we identified light sources and learned what light and dark are. 

This week, we began to investigate reflections and why surfaces were reflective. We moved into the darkest room in the school and experimented with different…

This week, Upper school have been given Kindness Activity Packs by Corey, our sports coach. Each day they have been filling them in and thinking about what kindness means and how we can show it towards other people. I have noticed that the children in my class really look out for one another…