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Kung hei fat choy from 9G

On Tuesday 1st February, 9G celebrated Chinese New Year.

The pupils were greeted by their staff with their hands together, bowing their heads and saying “ kung hei fat choy”  which means “Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous New…

10R had lots of fun researching and learning all about the Chinese New Year. We learned that 2022 is the year of the Tiger and that the learners in 10R were born either in the year of the dog or the year of the pig.

We watched the story of how the Emperor challenged the animals to race across…

Chestnut Class have enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year! We have been using our communication skills to make requests for lots of delicious Chinese food including spring rolls, noodles made by Mrs Duxbury, rice and prawn crackers. We watched Miss Spear create a huge tiger and watched as the black…

This term our theme is “Our Planet”. In our My Community lessons we have been thinking about our local environment and some of us have been out in the local community litter picking. We have been shocked at the amount of litter we have found over the past few weeks in Chorley Town Centre and at…

This week in 7 a all the children have worked really hard . We have seen lots of progression in both English and maths . 
In English the children have watched parts of the film UP ! We used this as a starting point to work on predictions from last week . They was able to create their own…

Today Willow have been practicing our functional measurement skills through cookery. The children worked hard to follow a recipe to create a mini app,e crumble each. 
Everyone did an amazing job at applying their kitchen safety skills we practiced last week, making sure to use sharp equipment…

10R have enjoyed sorting through our donations and then Sam and Callum lead us safely to the charity shop. 
 

Inside the shop pupils were able to ask a member of stafff they worked at the shop, as she had no uniform on. This was a good practical safer stranger exercise. When we had established…

Beech class have been busy exploring mini beasts, we have explored the bugs in the soil, spaghetti and sand. We had a lovely walk outside, and became big explorers, we took our tools, binoculars and magnifying glasses to see what bugs we could find outside, we looked in, on and under to see where…

Beech class had a lovely time on Tuesday celebrating Chinese New Year. To welcome in the year of the tiger, we mixed some orange paint and finger-painted some stripey tiger faces on paper plates. We tasted lots of Chinese snacks including fortune cookies, prawn crackers and noodles. In our sensory…

On Tuesday it was the first full moon of the Lunar calendar which meant it was Chinese New Year! 
pin Willow class we looked at how this special event is celebrated and why it is important to Chinese culture. We looked at ways people around the world celebrate the special day and days following…

As part 8A's Our Planet theme this half term, 8A have been learning about Sculptures as part of their My Creativity work. 

Each week, we have focused on a different artist and this week it was Barbara Hepworth. In previous weeks we have learnt about Marc Quinn who liked to make sculptures of…

The Year of the Tiger in Sycamore 

Chinese New Year in Sycamore class, we looked at where china is, the population and what it is like in China. We discussed that there are different languages spoken in different parts of China. 

We then went on to look at Chinese New Year, we…