26 Jan

Growing our own plants in Willow class

This term Willow class is learning all about plants in our science lessons.

In week three we looked at what plants need in order to grow best and to stay healthy. We discussed how plants need the right conditions, water and nutrients just like us. To test how plants grow, we have planted three…

25 Jan

Maple SuperTato Week 3

This week we have continued to explore our topic, healthy heroes! In our communication lessons we have read the story SuperTato and the Carnival Catastro-pea in which the Evil Pea sucks the colour out of all the other vegetables!

  • We continue to work on our fine motor skills, using vegetables…
24 Jan

8G End of Week 3 (Spring term)

What a busy end of the week we have had in 8G, I feel like I blinked and it was Friday afternoon!

On Wednesday morning, we all took part in My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson. Our starter was Maths themed. We had to look carefully at the pictures on the board and tap on the one that was…

24 Jan

8G Food Technology Week 3- Fruity Flapjacks (Group 1)

Before we started, we needed to wash our hands and put our aprons on as we know it is important to make sure our hands are clean and that our uniform stays clean too.

Mrs England and Miss Aindow gave out the recipes and read them to us.

Next, we took it in turns to find the equipment that we…

24 Jan

7R learn about food chains

This week in our "Understanding of the World" lessons, we have been learning about where animals get their food from. We learnt that animals need food to grow and to have energy. We have learnt that some animals are carnivores (only eat meat), some are herbivores (only eat plants) and some are…

24 Jan

Beech - Chinese New Year 2020

This week Beech have been exploring Chinese New Year (the year of the rat) we have played, made and explored a range of different things which have helped us learn about the celebration which has been lots of fun.  We made dragons, explored noodles in the role play kitchen and had a little…

23 Jan

Chestnut Class Celebrate Chinese New Year

This week chestnut class have explored lots of activities themed around Chinese New Year, we enjoyed the Chinese takeaway tray, using chop sticks to pick up noodles and then tried writing Chinese numbers in sensory materials using chop sticks, were a few of our favourite activities. Today we…

23 Jan

7R are artists!

7R have been learning about the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo as part of our "Food, Glorious Food" topic. We learnt that he created portraits using images of fruits and vegetables. We made our own art in his style using 3D art (using real fruits and vegetables) and drawing. We enjoyed the activity…

23 Jan

9G Happy Birthday Alex

Happy Birthday Alex. We have had a lovely afternoon celebrating together. We enjoyed playing bingo, playing musical chairs, musical statues and dancing to Alex’s favourite songs. We then sang happy birthday to Alex and gave him his card and present. We also got to have Alex’s lovely birthday cup…

23 Jan

11R Get back to Chorley In Bloom

This morning we made our hot chocolates in our flasks and heading up to All Seasons we our garden nursery is located.

 

We planted beetroot, broad beans, trees and put a netting over the bedding planters to keep the seeded areas safe.

 

We discussed what our plans are for the next few…

22 Jan

Oak - World Religion Week 2020

Last week in celebration of World Religion Week, Oak got busy learning about Judaism ✡️.

On Monday, Miss Curry read ‘The Creation Story’ in our class assembly and we all said what we could see in the pictures. 

On Tuesday, we learnt that Jewish people worship God in a Synagogue, like…

22 Jan

Kind Friends are the Best Friends

In class yesterday we had a story all about "Getting On and Falling Out" Some of us were able to role play the characters. We had great fun but also listened to some great advice on how to be a good and kind friend to each other. We have been given an envelope each with friendship tokens in them…