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Year 6 had an exciting Friday, watching Abi Mills finish as Mayor of Lancaster and pass the Mayorship onto Margaret Pattison!

It was an amazing opportunity to watch how democracy works in our townhall!

In our music lessons we are learning to play the glockenspiel using Charanga music programme. We play the notes along with the recorded music and have to keep time to the beat as well as listen to eachother! It can be tricky but we loved doing it. This will be part of our music lessons all term.

Year 6 were hard at it this week, trying to make a series of circuits with the least/most/different set of components they could!

After lots of trial and improvement, we even managed to make a working circuit with only 3 components!

Today we went into the playground to learn about compass directions, north, south, east and west. We had card with instructions on and used the compass to follow the instructions and find our way around. It was great fun!

Miss Bairaktari has been teaching us about capacity (how much a container is capable of holding) and volume (how much a container actually contains).

We measured water outside and sand inside and had to estimate first then check our answers.

We had great fun but it took a while to tidy up…

Year 6 have been learning all about the pros and cons of a balanced diet this week.

Yes, we all love a packet of crisps or a chocolate bar but how many van you have a week and still be haelthy?

You can ask Year 6, they'll know!

Today we were visited by Playground Proms who bring classical music to life in schools. We waved our flags and joined in as we watched the group perform well known classical music with a twist !

We began the Kidsafe programme today. The purpose of this programme is to develop the children's ability to recognise unsafe situations and to take action to help protect themselves. Today, we looked particularly at what trust means and we talked about 'yukky feelings' - feelings that are sad,…

This afternoon Kaye Barker from Playground Proms came into school to do a music workshop. The whole school learnt some songs and found out about stringed instruments them Y3 had a Dalcroze workshop. Dalcroze is movement and music that teaches pulse, rhythm and dynamics. We had a fantastic…

We have a student teacher joining us til the beginning of July. Miss Bairaktari, is on her final placement before she qualifies as a teacher in July. She'll be teaching Maths, DT, RE and Computing before half term and English, Art and History after half term. If you see her in the playground -say…

Year 6 had their investigative powers tested this week, as we tracked down the facts behind famous scientist Carl Linnaeus!

Do you know what he did to become so well known world-wide?

Year 5 have been working hard to create toys with moving parts using a cam mechanism. You can see the wonderful models they have made in the photos below.