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22 February 2017

Walking Wednesday

Today Year 2 and Year 5 began their Walking Wednesdays within the community. We did our rain dance before we began our 1 mile walk and luckily it stayed fine. 

As you can see from the pictures all the children enjoyed their walk and are looking foward to the next one on the 22nd…

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22 February 2017

Gardening Club Starts Again!

Gardening Club has started again this year.

First of all we have to clean up.

It is lovely to see all the bulbs that we planted in the Autumn coming through.

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21 February 2017

Rock Star Hero

Well done to Beatrice.

She has joined the other 7 children in our class who are now Rock Star Heroes.

The challenge is set again for this half term-complete try to complete 4 consecutive times tables challenges which will be set each week.

I know you can all do it!

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21 February 2017

Building bird boxes

Woodwork workshops

To help improve the wildlife we attract to our school grounds, we decided to build some bird boxes. Mr and Mrs Morey helped us to build our very own bird boxes out of wood. We put these together using hammers and nails, then sanded the edges to create more inviting homes…

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20 February 2017

Elm Class joins the CSI

CSI – Murder Mystery

After discovering a crime scene, we were given evidence found by the CSI team to help them solve a murder investigation. Looking carefully at each piece of evidence we answered the questions:

•       Who was murdered?

•       Where did the crime take…

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19 February 2017

Welcome Back!

Welcome back everyone!

I hope you all enjoyed the half term break and have come back with refreshed enthusiasm to learn.

There are so many exciting things happening this half term.

So don't forget to keep looking at the website!

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10 February 2017

Tremendous Titanic!

 

 

Year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed this half terms Titanic topic, the highlights have been the ‘Boat Challenge’ and the fantastic homework the children have produced. In the ‘Boat Challenge’ children worked really well in teams to create floating Titanic boats.

I have been amazed at the…

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9 February 2017

Outdoor maths

This week Year 5 have been using the outdoor space to consolidate their learning of fractions. Some groups were comparing fractions and other groups were creating diagrams to show equivalent fractions.

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9 February 2017

Year 6 Titanic Projects

This half term our topic has been Titanic, and the projects we have recieved have been absolutely fantastic! The children have been so enthusiastic learning about how the Titanic sank and we have enjoyed learning about it. Here are some pctures of some of the projects the children have…

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8 February 2017

Year 6 Helping in the Community

As part of the Chorley Civic Pride Award, we are helping in our community. Today Elm Class went out with some parents and cleaned up our local community by litter picking. We discussed the importance of our community and why it is vital to play our part. We then put this into action by starting a…

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7 February 2017

Teachers who love teaching!

This week I received the email below from a parent.

"Just wanted to say a huge thank you to Miss Baker and KS2 for their inspiring topics and homeworks. My child loved the prehistoric research and now is engaged and loving studying the Titanic! I don't think I've ever seen her so eager to learn…

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3 February 2017

On line Safety

Today Year 5 had a presentation from two PCSOs about keeping safe on line and cyber bullying.  The visitors discussed the importance of being safe and not sharing private information with strangers.  They also discussed how the children could deal with situations if they felt uncomfortable or…

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