28 June 2022

Y6 STEM WEEK - Town planning

Year Six kicked off their STEM week learning by learning how engineers and mathematicians help to plan the towns we live in! 

We discussed how to provide ample space, amenities and recreation opportunities for a town like Skelmersdale, and took inspiration from our own town's…

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28 June 2022

Year 1 STEM Week- Building Bridges and Towers!

What a great start to STEM week. The children #embraced our first challenge to work strategically to build the longest bridge that was strong enough to hold an 8 cubed block. 

It was great to see how they planned how to make it and how they used their mathematical skills to ensure their…

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27 June 2022

Year 5 Battleships Spreadsheets

In Computing, Year 5 started to learn about spreadsheets and played a game of battleships to help them understand the different cells. 

 

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27 June 2022

Welding with Chocolate in Year 3!

STEM week kicked off with some welding in Year 3! They used chocolate to simulate how welding is done in construction using metal!

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26 June 2022

Year 3 Basketball

Year 3 have been loving their Friday invasion games PE lessons. Zombies warm up game are a huge hit and the children have really developed their throwing and catching skills in small sided games. Some basketball stars of the future.

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24 June 2022

Year 4 - Dodgeball!

Year 4 showed some fantastic teamwork skills today in dodgeball. We’ve got some excellent catchers, throwers and defenders in our class! 
 

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24 June 2022

Year 6 - DT Day!

Today, Year 6 have #embraced our DT Day! We started off designing a nightlight inspired by Under the Sea. Year 6 learnt how to use a saw to create the wooden frame for their nightlight. We then decorated the side panels and assessed how well it would work as a nightlight for a young child, or as a…

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24 June 2022

Pre School- Where in the world? & capacity and size

This week the children have enjoyed reading Dear Zoo. We looked at maps of the world and used the internet to find out where the animals originated. The children did an excellent job of remembering not only where they live, but where each animal from the story originated from. They placed each of …

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23 June 2022

Year 1 Programming in Computing!

The children started their programming topic in Computing today. They embraced learning about how to code and loved the challenge of baking a cake! 
#enjoy #evolve 

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22 June 2022

Year 3 Aspirations Day 2

Year 3 really enjoyed their latest 2 visitors for Aspirations Week. They loved learning about the role of a paramedic in the NHS and asked so many great questions.

 

They were equally as interested in the role of a prison office and loved meeting Chance and Ozzy, the drug dogs. They were…

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22 June 2022

Year 4 Aspirations Day!

What a fun and exciting few days it has been in Year 4!  We’ve been thinking about what we would like to be when we are older. We’ve had a wide range of visitors in school telling us all about their jobs, such as bakers, footballers, paramedics, fire fighters and even prison officers! They have…

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22 June 2022

Reception - Aspirations Day 2

Another fabulous inspirational day! Today, Reception have been introduced to a further two admirable careers - future Paramedics and Prison Officers. They tried on real-life uniforms; jackets, handcuffs, helmets. They got strapped to stretchers, searched by the sniffer dog and much more. A super,…

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