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Here we are again at the end of another week, this time week 9! It will soon be Summer term, how scary is that!

On Wednesday we kicked off Mrs Fisher's week with a My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson. We began the lesson with a quick brain break, a favourite of 8G, Body Bop. Lots of us love…

Today in our creativity lesson, Maple class formed their own band. Maple class listened to a song about being part of a band and we talked about the different instruments we could hear. We then took it in turns to play the different instruments and Mr Darbyshire taught us about staying in time to…

Willow class enjoyed a functional maths and food etc lesson, designing a smoothie recipe.

The children had to choose the ingredients they wanted, then use the price lists to work out what the quantity of each ingredient would cost.

Next children had to visit the banker to withdraw the money…

What a fantastic day we had celebrating World Book Day. We had a wonderful, busy, fun-filled day!

In Oak we had lots of wonderful characters walk through the door! We had a unicorn, sonic, dinosaurs, Mary Popins, a Cat, a Lion, a Princess, Shine, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hulk and…

Today was the first "Just Dance" club for years 9-11 at lunchtime.  We warmed up to "Eye of the Tiger" and were very impressed with the pupils boxing moves!  We all had lots of fun dancing to a variety of songs and even found enough energy to sing along.  I think we were all ready for the 2 minute…

11R have been working hard today solving problems using division. 
 

We played games and divided our Holi rice we made from previous lessons into equal amounts. 
 

We discussed practical ways to overcome problems of sums we can’t do mentally or without counters and considered what we would…

9G have had a lovely time celebrating the Holi Festival. It runs from the 9th to the 10th of March. We chose to wear the colour green which is the colour for peace and nature. We had a busy day getting ready to learn using our colourful playdough gym and reading through the story of  Holika and…

This week Beech have been exploring Holi the festival of colour with lots of colourful and messy activities. 

Today, we recapped last term's learning about the importance of keeping our bodies clean. We took this opportunity to use Attention Autism and green paint, to show how germs can spread. We had fun passing the paint between each other to highlight how easily germs can spread and how it can spread…

Last week we had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day! We focussed on fables as a class and learnt that fables are stories with a lesson. We read The Tortoise and the Hare with Mr Murphy and The Ant and the Grasshopper with Mrs Crouch. We wrote about the stories, completed a book review of…

Today we have celebrated the Hindu festival of colour in 7R. We read the story of Holika and Prahlad to find out why some Hindus light a bonfire before Holi Festival and then we learnt that Holi marks the beginning of spring and is celebrated with lots of colour! We threw powder paint to create…

I had the pleasure of taking our Secondary Phase 'Golden Ticket' winners on their reward visit today. 

Pupils enjoyed ten-pin bowling at the new 'Escape' venue in Chorley followed by lunch at McDonalds.

As always; it is such a pleasure to be able to lead these visits and spend some quality…