Blog by Lucinda Croston

We have had THE BEST day today. We went on our trip to Ribchester, the children's first school trip since Reception. We had a fantastic day and all the children (and adults) thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We started by exploring the bath house ruins. We then met Matthew who told us all about the…

Well done to Lois on achieving her pen license this week. She has worked extremely hard to join her writing beautifully. Super work! 

Today we played bench ball in PE. We were practising our team skills. Trying to find spaces to dodge in to and helping our team score goals. 

Today we read the Roman myth Romulus and Remus. The children read the story in pairs and acted it out as they read. We saw some super acting and then they answered questions about the story. We also performed the story to the rest of the class.

Today we had a lovely surprise when Mila brought in her chocolate that she had made at home following our ‘design a chocolate bar’ lesson last week. She had followed her design carefully and layered her chocolate with caramel and a marshmallow surprise in the centre. Mila kindly gave us all a…

Click continue reading to see more photos. Today in our Wild At Heart session we were learning all about spiders. We watched some videos of how spiders make their webs. We then went on a spider hunt around school to see if we could find any webs and spiders. We spotted lots of webs and a…

Click to see more photos. Today I’m our Wild at Heart session we learned about spiders and their webs. We then went on a spider web hunt around school and found lots of webs. We even found an egg sack! Well done to all the super spider spotters. 

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Today, we have been practising our basketball skills. First we practised our short passes and bounce passes. Then we played a mini game to help us put our skills into practise and work as a team. 

Today we started learning about persuasive writing through the wonderful world of chocolate. We talked about persuasive language and then we were given some secret parcels to unwrap. We all had some chocolate in our secret parcels. We then got to taste the chocolate and worked in groups to come up…

We had lots of fun learning about directions outside during our maths lesson. We had to direct our partner using North, South, East and West and estimate how many steps. Continue reading to see more photos.

We are very excited to say that 3 more pen licence have been awarded today. Well done girls, you have worked very hard and your handwriting and presentation is beautiful. 

Today, two of our super stars in Beech Class were awarded their own pen licenses. This means they can now use a pen to write in their books. They both present their work beautifully and join up consistently. A huge well done! There are lots of other children who are very nearly there, so watch…