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Reception had a day full of pancakes! This morning we learnt why we celebrate Shrove Tuesday. We learnt that we celebrate it the day before lent starts. Lent is a time when people might give something up to remember when Jesus went to the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. People used to give up…

We are going to be using the spelling scheme of work on Purple Mash to improve our spellings in Year 2. Each day we will work through the spelling programme in class and all Y2 children will have to-do's set on their Purple Mash accounts. Your child's login details are in their reading record…

We have new play equipment for the Infant playground and today we got it all out to try it and make sure we understand how to use it all. We have mini stilts, cone and ball sets, velcro catch ball sets, hula skippers and scoop racqets. We're going to enjoy playtimes!

Year 5 have created 3-D models of the human body based on observations of sculptures done by Anthony Gormley. They used wire to create a 3-D frame and modroc to create the model. Well done, Year 5!

Our children in Year Five joined children from the other Catholic primary schools in our area to celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes. Every child decorated a flower and wrote the name of someone they would like to pray for in the centre of the flower. These were placed around a statue…

Today we visited the Castle which is the setting for our story that we are writing in class. Our story is the follow up to George and the Dragon by Chris Wormell. We thought about where George the mouse and the Princess would play, where the dragon would leave the cheese to distract them and how…

Our topic for art in Year 5 this half term has been sculpture. We’ve been looking at the work of Anthony Gormley and have created sculptures in a similar style. The skills we’ve focused on are: creating human like features, showing proportion, form and texture. We’ve achieved this by using wire to…

We had a lovely afternoon in Year 1 today. Here are some girls enjoying books in our cosy reading corner.

This afternoon we had a lovely walk to the mini zoo. We were all very excite to see the meerkats and rabbits. We were excited to learn that meerkats eat scorpions! We thought that we would not like to eat scorpions. We also enjoyed looking at the lizards and snakes and saw that one of the lizards…

Year 2 successfully performed their poem BEWARE the dragon at the poetry performance this afternoon! We put lots of expression into our recital as well as using dynamics to add some drama. As always, we used actions to help us remember the words. Everyone's lips were moving and we did ourselves…

This afternoon, Year 5 enjoyed performing the poem 'The Months of the Year' by Sara Coleridge. You can watch their performance below.

The Lancashire Fire and Rescue team came in to visit Year 2 today. They showed us lots if information and videos about staying safe at home and about what to do in the event of a fire. The children got to wear the firefighter's outfits and take part in role play situations.

The children all…