Year 6 Confirmation Service
On Monday 25th November, at Inskip,St Peter’s Church, three of our current Year 6 children (and a former pupil, Sian) were confirmed into the church by Bishop Phillip from Blackburn Cathedral. It was a beautiful and very spiritual service with the children all taking part confidently and with…
PE-Earthlings Dance
For the past three weeks, the Upper School class have been developing a dance based on our theme of Earth in Space. Each section of the dance explores a different idea and uses free form dance techniques such as union work, paired dances, freeze frames, group work, follow the leader, mirroring and…
Science-The colour of light
Today in our Science lesson, the children explored what colour light is. At the start of the session, they all stood in a place in the classroom and pointed at the colour they thought light was. Most children thought it was white or had no colour and was transparent.
Next we had a recap about…
Middle School’s Jar of Kindness
As part of our PSHE topic on respect, we took part in Anti-Bullying Week (11th Nov - 15th Nov).
Middle School were given challenges throughout the week:
Listen out for someone using kind words…
Look out for someone using kind actions…
Middle School also discussed ways we could explore…
Middle School - Comparing Numbers
We have continued to deepen our understanding of place value by comparing numbers.
We had some phone calls with Tiny Turtle, who thought that the starting digit was the only thing you needed to use to compare.
He thought 923 was greater than 1324. After lots of reasoning and super…
Middle School’s Boccia Continues!
Wow! Middle School have made unbelievable progress in Boccia!
In our last lesson, we had to make a ‘plan’ and share this before sending the ball. Some children planned to throw and land nearer to the Jack than other balls. Some children planned to go on the attack by rolling towards the…
Middle School’s Sharing Time
More Sharing Time in Middle School!
Since September, children have bravely and confidently stood before the class and shared something they are interested in or something they are proud of.
Their audience shows active listening by tracking the speaker, showing they are engaged and…
Music-composing planets music
Since the half term holiday, Upper School have been investigating the Charanga composition features on the website. They have been learning how to use simple rhythms and melodies. Now the children are using the melody maker app to compose orchestral pieces based on the planets of the solar system.…
Middle School Boccia Week 1 and 2
Middle School have been introduced to the wonderful world of Boccia! We have learnt that it is an inclusive sport, requiring skill, problem-solving and a good aim!
We have watched videos of Paralympians competing in the Paris 2024 and Rio 2016 Paralympics and were all pretty humbled by their…
Middle School Stig of the Dump role plays
Middle School met The Snarget boys in Stig of the Dump and reinacted the moment they came under attack by Barney as he tried to scare them away to protect Stig and the den. They also made lots of predictions about what they thought might be in the box left by the Snarget boys, and what they…
Middle School Ukulele Lesson 1
Middle School absolutely loved getting out the ukuleles. In our first lesson, we learnt the parts of the musical instrument, how to hold it, signals for our music lessons, the string names, how to tune a ukulele and how to strum in rhythm to a song!
Superstars!
Geography-Using a Compass
In Geography this week, the class learnt more about using maps to navigate. They practised using grid references to find symbols on maps and then began to learn to use a compass to travel. I gave the children a treasure hunt challenge in the playground where they had to follow compass directions…