Our blogs

Last week's fun ! , by Miss McDowell

Date: 19th Nov 2018 @ 5:05pm

Last week we saved a number of boxes for the children to be creative and use.

Finger painting fun!, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 19th Nov 2018 @ 3:34pm

The elephants have really been inspired by Van Gogh.They added to their sketch books on Friday and had a go today at painting the real thing! They were all very proud of their artwork and quite rightly so.

This morning we enjoyed being outside and role playing the story of the gingerbread man.We split into groups, decided who was who and then sequenced the events. We showed our stories to the other groups. We were all fantastic!

Thursday fun, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 16th Nov 2018 @ 9:15am

Class Compliment, by Mrs McLennan

Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 2:20pm

This afternoon we have enjoyed our well deserved class compliment. We have snuggled under blankets and watched a film. We had a choice of 4 films and voted in secret and posted our vote into the ballot box. We discussed the idea of democracy as it’s Parliament Week. 

The Gruffalos Child, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 13th Nov 2018 @ 8:00pm

We are really enjoying this story. We are using a light panel to draw pictures and write words cursive style. We are playing in the Gruffalo woods on the tough tray and we love the Gruffalo Cafe - yummy roasted fix and scrambled snake.

Making repeating patterns, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 13th Nov 2018 @ 2:59pm

This week in Maths we are learning about repeating  patterns.Today we had to make a pattern for our friend to copy and say what the rule was.We had fun!

As part of anti bullying week we talked about using kind words and wrote kind words about our friends. We put them in the kind jar and are reading a few everyday. Today Noah and Marley had kind words said about them.

We also had a  vote as part of our parliament week learning  , yesterday we learnt about the Houses of Parliament and an interesting fact about Big Ben. Ask your child if they can remember!

WW1gliders, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 10th Nov 2018 @ 11:12am

We made WW1 gliders then had a go at flying them.

Pebbles at the play park, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 10th Nov 2018 @ 11:10am

The Koalas walked to the play park to place their WW1 pebbles.

Remembrance week, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 9th Nov 2018 @ 3:44pm

The elephants have had a busy week of learning. Decorating pebbles and taking them to the church , which looked beautiful inside. Designing and making a glider. Well done to Sienna and Pippa who won the design  competition and well done to Olive who flew hers the furthest in Year 1. We all added a handprint to make a beautiful poppy wreath.

Thank you for dresssing up and making your donations , you all looked fantastic😊

Remembrance, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 9th Nov 2018 @ 1:04pm

Remembrance Week, by Mrs McLennan

Date: 9th Nov 2018 @ 12:21pm

Poetry, gliding, poppies have been the central theme to our week of Remembrance.

Lest We Forget, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 8th Nov 2018 @ 4:41pm

Take a look at our whole class art work for WW1 remembrance week.

Morning club fun , by Miss McDowell

Date: 8th Nov 2018 @ 8:20am

The children have made their own classroom and are taking turns to be the teacher. 

Also children talking about their books.

Bubble wrap popping fun , by Miss McDowell

Date: 8th Nov 2018 @ 8:12am

We found some bubble wrap and the children enjoyed popping them by jumping on them.

Wednesday fun in the ckub, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 7th Nov 2018 @ 4:57pm

The children were having so much fun tonight.

Year 2 sporty morning , by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Nov 2018 @ 8:34pm

Year 2 enjoyed a sporty morning at Leyland ,taking part in lots of different activities.They said it was “amazing” and “good fun”. Well done Year 2 🤪

Fun learning -Remembrance week, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 6th Nov 2018 @ 8:17pm

Today we designed and decorated our gliders, we are going to test fly them tomorrow, they look great. Some lovely ideas.

We have also started to make our pebbles ready to put in the village on Friday, the elephants keep on surprising me with their fabulous  and thoughtful ideas. well done!

Where the poppies now grow., by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 6th Nov 2018 @ 12:06pm

We have started to think about WW1 and Remembrance Day. We are making a whole class canvas and using lots of skills, painting, sewing, sticking and cutting. It is nearly finished, take a look at what we have done so far.

Firework fun, by Mrs Hothersall

Date: 6th Nov 2018 @ 12:02pm

We have made a firework display. We painted our own fireworks for the background, then we made 3D rockets and had a go at writing firework words.

Completed Stain glass windows., by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 8:03pm

Would we be able to sign up to the war?, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 8:01pm

Today we found out all about what we would have to do to be a new army recruit.

We had to see if we met the criteria of height - 160cm and chest size - 82cm.

We had great fun practising our measure skills before using subtraction to work out the differences in length. 

 

Morning run re, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 6:45pm

Well done to Jacob and some elephants who enjoyed running round the track this morning.

Dont forget every morning  this week you are invited to run round and try to challenge yourself to do more laps, all welcome!

Hope we see more people tomorrow it’s a great way to get your body and brain working- happy running 🏃‍♂️  

Look out for next weekss challenge too.

Bonfire fun, by Mrs Pratten

Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 6:40pm

Today we enjoyed finding out about Guy Fawkes and the gun powder plot, we learnt about the plan and sequenced pictures to show the events.

We discussed why we have fireworks and best of all enjoyed making our own sparklers. They were yummy!

our first week back , by Miss Reynolds

Date: 5th Nov 2018 @ 3:17pm

This week was are second week back from the half term holidays. Last week and this week we have been learing about poetry and we have learnt Flanders fields poem , which is about remeberence day and world war one. McCrae was the poet to Flanders fields and he achually wrote it during the ww1 that means he must of been soldier and he must of fought in the war. In english homework we had to copy a really good poem that we liked and that we enjoyed reading. The rest of the week we are going to be learning about rememberance and going to be painting are pebbles .

              by Saskia and Maisie

Firework Poster WINNER, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 4th Nov 2018 @ 8:49pm

We recieved some very exciting news on Friday in assembly.

Mrs Brown had a envelope containing tickets for Worden Park Bonfire this Monday, they had been dropped off by Lancashire Fire and Rescue service.

The posters we had entered into the competition had been judged against those from all other local schools and we are pleased to announce that Bronwen was a successful winner.  We are very proud of her, she produced an amazing entry.