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What a joy to be able to celebrate the 25th WBD in school with everyone this year! I was so delighted to see the excitement and joy in all the children throughout the day as they showed off their costumes and shared their favourite books.

Our theme was ‘Animals’ where I asked that you choose…

Thank you to all the parents who came to our reading meeting on Monday afternoon, it was lovely to see you all and chat about all things to do with reading! 

I launched our new class lending library which has been a great success this week with children taking books home to enjoy and returning…

During our special day, Upper School children paraded in their brilliant book costumes for the rest of school and watched the BBC Live Lesson which featured the author, Frank Cottrell-Boyce who we know from reading The Forgotten Coat. The children also spent time in Middle and Lower School with a…

In Upper School, we are finding out about life of children in Victorian times, starting with school life. We are so lucky in Inskip that we have such rich resources to draw on- the school log books and the corridor exhibition documenting each decade of school life from 1816 to 2016. 
The picture…

Upper School have begun a set of dance lessons with the theme of ‘The Highway Man’ by Alfred Noyes. They have studied the poem and watched animated versions of it to inspire the dances that they come up with. Today the children used four elements of dance - different ways of travelling, turns,…

As part of the PE curriculum, children participate in outdoor activities - this half term's outdoor activities include trust games and activities that promote teamwork. 
This week, children began with some teamwork. In groups, children had to use their bodies to create words (which also links to…

This week we have started our new topic in art - looking at typography. 
We began the topic by looking at how we could create letters without using a pen or pencil! Children got creative using the objects from the classroom and from outside to create the letters from their names.

We had to…

Today the Upper School finished their Joan Miro project by completing their Miro style sculptures. We think they look great and show very similar ideas and colours to the original Miro Sculptures. (If you get the chance to go to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, some of his sculptures are displayed…

Our Reception group have been busy creating lots of interesting things with big boxes and writing about them this week. We have had secret doors, magic doors, fairy castles, dinosaur lands, cars and so many more! We loved listening to the stories you made up as you played children!

As part of our topic ‘Explorers’ and as part of our English learning reading stories by the same author we have been reading the marvellous books by the artist and author Simon Bartram. We have been enjoying Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary, Bob The Man on The Moon, Bob and his Best Ever Friend Ever and…

Our EYFS children have been busy designing and creating junk models and wowing us with their skills and creativity. 

Well done, children, your labels telling us what your models are, are fantastic too!

This week in our RE lesson we discussed the miracle Jesus performed when he turned water into wine (John 2:1-11) at the wedding in Cana. The children decided that the miracles Jesus performed show us that Jesus was special and that it made his friends, his disciples, realise how special he…