Blog

To celebrate the Commonwealth Games being hosted in this country, and the Queen’s Jubilee year, the school took part in the Lancashire School Games Baton Relay. Members of the school council, together with participating classes, provided a welcoming party for teachers and pupils from St Mary’s…

In Oak on International Women's Day, we looked at pictures of women who are special to us, we talked about who we could see in the pictures and then looked for another picture that was the same. The children all recognised their family members who are special to them and liked to look at each…

This week Willow Class went on our first walking trip to visit Astley Park. We have been learning all about our local environment, habitats and wildlife in class, especially looking at local birds during the big bird watch in February so it was time to put all our knowledge to the test! 
We…

In Sycamore for International Woman’s Day we learnt about what International Woman’s Day is and why we celebrate it. We looked at how throughout history, women have been treated differently to men. We talked about how women was not allowed to vote and how in some job roles, men were paid more than…

Ahoy there! In Beech class this week we have had lots of fun looking at all things pirates! 

We have explored lots of sea creatures, treasures, and pirate ships in sensory trays of cereal, water and sand.

In our attention autism sessions, we have sifted flour octopuses, practiced our numbers…

Today, Willow class celebrated International Women’s Day. 
We talked about why we celebrate this day, and learnt all about some influential women in history. 
We discussed the women in our lives and spoke about what we all want to grow up to be. 
We then then made a special card and flower to…

To celebrate International Women's Day, Rowan Class had fun exploring the story, "Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?" by Carmela LaVigna Coyle.

Today is International Women’s Day.

In class we discussed what the day was today. 8th March is International Women’s Day.

Miss Brophy explained that many many years ago women were not allowed to do lots of things that men did, like going to school, voting and having a job. The women…

10G has had another busy fun packed week this week.

We have worked on our communication skills when making our smoothies and pancakes. We had to follow the recipe’s and instructions for each and working as a team we were able to put together our ingredients and mixture to make the smoothies and…

Today is International Women’s Day! In 8A we have had a brilliant whole class discussion this morning. Some of the pupils asked why there isn’t an “international men’s day”. We looked at how, throughout history, women have been treated differently to men. We talked about how women didn’t used to…

The week started with pancake making for Shrove Tuesday. Pupils were given a recipe and worked in two groups, showing some fantastic team work and helping each other out, staff were very impressed as they did really well without any help. Everyone was a little nervous of turning the pancake over…

We had quite a lengthy discussion around - why it is important to celebrate this very important day! 
 

We looked at the life of a very important woman Mary Seacole- we all found it very difficult to comprehend what the world was like for women- especially for women from different ethnic…