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Our Sports Coach Corey told us that his Sports Foundation Fleetwood Town were supporting lonely people this Christmas, our Middle School pupils decided to create their own Christmas cards to let others know that they aren't alone this Christmas. Corey was over the moon with our pupils'…

Middle School enjoyed their Christmas party on Wednesday! We kicked the party off with some fun group quizzes and games. Next, we played the pass the parcel kindly donated by Friends - luckily, we all won something! After that we played party games including musical statues, musical bumps and…

On Tuesday, middle school had a creative afternoon making layered collage cards. We could only use coloured paper, scissors and glue! The children chose their own special message to put inside. We had some beautiful cards!

The children applied the skills they learnt previously (creating autumn leaves see here https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-10-13-14-49-13-painting-autumn-leaves ) to create the background sky using wax resist and watercolour inks to create a picture representing the sky above St Paul’s…

Today was our final lesson in our Creative Games series of learning. Over the past few weeks, we have practised dribbling, passing and throwing with basketballs, footballs and rugby balls in a series of different games - including games with attackers and defenders and the need to outwit your…

Upper School have continued to explore the book, ‘Otto: The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear’ and have used it as inspiration for their own stories they have started writing (if children access these from home, please make sure that they continue to save their work regularly: there is no expectation…

Middle school have brought their geography topic of earthquakes and volcanoes to an exciting conclusion by combining them with their computing lessons... the children worked in small groups to produce their own short videos to explain to viewers how they can prepare for and get through an…

As part of our geography and science  learning we take notice of the weather and note changes throughout the year (not just when we study it in a topic). Today we couldn’t resist taking a close look at the beautiful patterns created by nature as we still had flakes of ice in the areas shaded from…

I am so proud of the learning my Year 1 and 2 children have been doing making chairs for Baby Bear. The children have used the skill they have learnt in previous lessons and applied them in making the chairs. There was a lot of problem solving and discussion happening as they worked. 

They…

In this activity the children chose buttons to place on the Christmas pictures. Picking up the buttons helps improve their fine motor skills helping build muscles ready for holding pencils and writing. As the children chose their buttons I asked them lots of questions prompting learning and we…

A winter themed mark making activity set up for our Reception children this week but of course all the class have been using it for learning and fun.

This week our Reception children have been practising writing letters and numbers in the snow (or hail stones as the children have quite rightly…

Middle school used their STEM brains to complete a challenge - who could make the tallest tower using only sellotape and newspaper?

The children were put into groups with three roles: builders, engineers and architects.

The architects drew out the designs and ensured their team stuck to…