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3S enjoyed learning about inverted commas for the first time! In groups they had sentences to construct together - everyone got involved and all groups were winners! 

Year 6 had a visit from Lancashire Fire and Rescue service to teach them about different aspects of keeping safe. The pupils were very knowledgeable about what to do if there was a fire in their house and could describe how to contact the emergency services. The firefighters talked about the…

This week in nursery we read Kipper’s birthday.

The children enjoyed making and decorating their own birthday cakes. We talked about how the cake mixture changed in the oven just like Kipper’s in the story.

The children made birthday cards and wrote invitations for their friends.

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Today we have been learning about how God wants us to look after the world He made for us. We talked about all the things we could do. Keeping things clean and tidy was important to many of the children. After that, we went outside with gloves and litter pickers and tidied up our playground. 

Lat week in Reception, we celebrated Nursery Rhyme week. Over the course of the week we learnt 5 Nursery Rhymes: 

- Sing a Song of Sixpence 

- Humpty Dumpty

- When I Was One 

- I Hear Thunder

- Two Little Dickie Birds 

We enjoyed making a pirate ship to perform 'When I Was…

Last week, Year 2 began preparation for our science topics next year. We examined bulbs and seeds, learnt about their differences, then we planted daffodil bulbs outside. We hope to observe them grow in Spring!

This week in nursery we have been learning about Remembrance Day. We worked together to make poppy wreaths and then put them on the remembrance table in school. The children made and decorated their own poppy biscuits and painted some fantastic poppy pictures.

In the outdoor area the children…

As a start to our first history topic in year 2 we had a bonfire in the school garden and made a sparkler in class. We will be learning all about The Gunpowder Plot over this half term, I am sure you will hear all about it.

Our topic for this half term is celebrations.
This week we have really enjoyed looking  at Bonfire night we learned about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. 
We talked about the colours of the fireworks and the noises the fireworks made before splatter painting and printing firework pictures.…

After all of our chopping, peeling and safety learning we finally got to make a smoothie. We designed it ourselves, choosing the ingredients we thought we would like. Then we worked in small groups to make it. We didn’t all like it and have ideas of how to make it better next…

Mrs Finch gave us a guided tour of the church recently. We looked at the parts we don’t normally get to see. It was a really interesting tour and we helped increase our knowledge of our local church.