31 Mar

An egg-citing afternoon in 8A!

This half term for Me and My Body, we have been doing Outdoor Adventurous Activities. We have practiced our team work skills and learnt that good teamwork means good talking and good listening to each other. We have practiced this through lots of games and some of us have also worked on our…

25 Mar

8A explore stories from around the world

This half term, as we have continued our Our Planet theme, 8A have been reading stories from around the world in My Communication.

First, we read a story called Lila and the Secret of Rain. This story was set in Africa and we thought about what it would be like to live somewhere without rain,…

3 Mar

8A Celebrate St David's Day

On Tuesday it was 1st March, which meant that it was St David’s Day. In 8A we learnt about who St David was and why people in Wales like to celebrate on 1st March. We found out that the people of Wales like to march in parades, sing and play music and dance too. Lots of people (especially…

23 Feb

8A My Creativity- Making sculptures out of clay

8A are continuing to learn about Sculptures in their art work this half term (as part of our Spring theme Our Planet). 

This week we learnt that sculptures can be made of any sort of material, but that the most common ones are metal, stone and clay.

To link to the Our Planet theme, we…

4 Feb

A message from 8A…

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…

2 Feb

Making sculptures in 8A

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…

14 Jan

What will 8A be learning about this term?

Happy New Year everyone!

8A have had a fantastic start to the new year. We thought you might like to know all about our new theme, "Our Planet" and what we will be learning about this term. 

My Communication

In My Communication this half term, Mrs Crouch will be helping us to write some…

16 Dec

Simply having a wonderful Christmas time in 8A

Wow we have had another fun filled day in 8A! This morning we were visited by some alpacas and then we enjoyed a festive games afternoon. We played a snowman beetle run, Christmas bingo, Christmas charades and pin the nose on Rudolph. We all took turns and had lots of fun. 

Tomorrow we have…

15 Dec

Breakfast with Santa in 8A

This morning 8A enjoyed breakfast with Santa. We enjoyed some of our favourite breakfast foods - Coco Pops, croissants, pain au chocolat or toast before our video call with the big man himself! Santa’s elves delivered our presents and Santa revealed the names of those of us who were on his good…

10 Dec

The festivities continue in 8A ☃️

We are ready for Christmas in 8A. The countdown is certainly on! 
 

Yesteday we joined in with the Be Internet Legends Google assembly. This was an assembly streamed via YouTube with lots of interactive questions. We even got a shoutout! Mrs Crouch, Mrs England and Mrs Taylor were so impressed…

10 Dec

8A Christmas Party and Secret Santa

We've had a crazy busy few weeks in 8A these last few weeks.

Last week, Megan had the brilliant idea that we could all take part in a Secret Santa; everyone chose a name out of a hat and then they needed to buy their "secret" friend a present. Mrs Crouch suggested we could all go into town to…

2 Dec

8A have fun on the new playground

8A had a brilliant time on the playground this afternoon. We hope it’s dry tomorrow for more fun in golden time!