29 Sep

Art- Artist Studies

Today, the class looked carefully at the oil painting, Gassed by John Singer Sargent. We discussed what was going on, the story behind the picture and the feelings of the soldiers. The children spent time reproducing the painting in pencil in their sketch pads, looking carefully at the shapes and…

29 Sep

PE- Rugby Skills and Creative Games

With the weather finally being kind, Upper School made it outside for their PE lesson! The children focused on the rugby backwards pass to start with and then moved onto playing some simple competitions involving making it across the playground to collect cones whilst passing the ball back between…

27 Sep

Let’s Go Sing 2023- first rehearsal

We were all so excited in Upper School and Middle School to take part in this year’s first Let’s Go Sing rehearsal with the brilliant, Rachel. She got us all singing our hearts out and doing all the actions! There are some fantastic songs like If I Was A Superhero and The Fox (which is not for the…

21 Sep

RE- Life as a Journey

Today in RE, the class thought about the journey of life and what we need to make our journeys fulfilling and flourishing. We watched Bishop Phillip talking about his own journey and the choices and difficulties he had on the way. After that, the children talked together about what they would put…

20 Sep

Science - Investigating Insulators

Upper School are learning about materials and their properties in our science lessons and today they planned and carried out an investigation to find out which container would be the best for keeping some porridge hot. Tyreece came up with an enquiry question and then we thought about what we…

20 Sep

Harvest Festival

On Sunday 17th September, St Peter’s Church celebrated the harvest with a family service. The church was decorated beautifully for the occasion and part of that decoration were the Year 5/6 harvest prayers and their handmade fruits and vegetables.
It was great to see so many children in church…

12 Sep

Science- Testing Properties of Materials

In Upper School, the children are learning about properties and changes of materials in Science. 
Today the children learnt the new vocabulary we will be using throughout the topic and also carried out a test of the different properties of some given materials such as a wooden spoon, a copper…

12 Sep

English- Street Child

As our History topic is all about the Industrial Revolution this term, the Upper School Class have begun reading and studying the novel, Street Child by Berlie Doherty. This book is all about a real life child who inspired Dr Barnardo to set up his charity for destitute children during the…

11 Sep

Creating a History Display

The History topic for this term is ‘The Industrial Revolution’ so as part of our learning, Upper School are creating their own display board. To begin the board, the children designed their own silhouettes of industrial buildings or houses. Next the class will add a time line of events.  

6 Sep

Getting to Know Our Laptops

Today the children wrote informal letters to either Miss Leyland or Mrs Thornton to tell them about their summer holiday activities and also to let them know what they are looking forward to for the year ahead. They drafted their letters in their exercise books with a particular focus on use of…

19 Jul

Year 6 Treat Day

What an amazing day Year 6 have had! We started off with entertainment by Coach Gunn on the school field which included zorbing, inflatables, archery, games, tug of war and dodge ball. Everyone had a smile on their face for two whole hours!

Next we had dinner in the marquee where we were…

18 Jul

People of Faith -Free Methodists

Upper School and Middle School Classes had a visit from some very special people today. Mrs Winter (Abi and Daniel’s Mum) and Mrs Parkinson (who used to work at Inskip School) came as representatives of Fulwood Free Methodist Church to talk to us about their faith. They told us all about their…