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We have been having a fabulous week exploring colour. We began by learning about the colour wheel and all the children learnt how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours. 
 

We used this fabulous picture book ‘Mixed’ by Aree Chung as a starting point for our learning. The story shows…

This afternoon, Upper School children did a tasting activity to investigate different types of biscuits. 
They analysed the amount of fat, sugar and salt in each type of biscuit and then made judgments about the taste, healthiness and presentation. 
It was really interesting to look at the…

Today the children learnt about the sugar, fat and salt content in the foods we like to eat. 
We investigated food packaging and compared the grams per 100g. The children were quite surprised at the amount of fat in certain foods such as breakfast bars and the amount of sugar in sauces like…

A huge well done to everyone who has participated in Red Nose day this year.

Many of the children in middle school showed their support by purchasing a red nose and wearing it to school all day! 
Some brave children stood up in front of the school to tell some jokes for everyone to hear and…

To go alongside our topic of 'money' this week, the children came to buy items from Ms Hennelly's classroom shop!
They used money to count out amounts and simulate purchasing items from a real shop. 
We used this to help us with adding amounts of money on the first day as my shop had no…

Middle school have had their first try at orienteering in their PE lessons.
They had a great time applying their skills to complete different orienteering challenges.

Children firstly had to use find the numbered controls and mark where they think they were on the maps, making connections to…

We are always proud of the achievements our children make outside of school and love to celebrate them. Last weekend Olivia and Evelyn performed on stage at The Winter Gardens in Blackpool in a show called Dance Fever 2022. They performed in three shows, Friday night, Saturday afternoon and…

Reception children have been deepening their understanding of the number ten this week. 
 

Have a look at these photos to see some of the activities they have been doing… 

Developing our Reception children’s understanding of the natural world today they planted daffodil, hyacinth and tulip bulbs from plants we have grown in pots. If you look at our previous blog post https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2022-03-17-19-21-35-investigating-bulbs you can read all about the…

We have been making connections throughout all our learning in different subjects over the past two weeks, revisiting and building on learning we did weeks ago too, all through an overarching theme of Spring.

In science we have looked closely at bulbs developing our scientific skills of…

Upper School are learning about healthy eating and healthy lifestyles this term in Science. Today we learnt about the differing amounts of kilojoules (calories) in our food. We found that fruit and vegetables had the least amount of KJs and carbohydrates/protein had the most. 
We learnt about…

In our computing lessons, we are learning how to programme a microcontroller connected to a laptop, via a USB. We have been programming components such as buzzers and lights with Crumble coding. It has been really rewarding to create programmes to create a sequence of lights and buzzes! (It’s been…