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In Nursery we are reading Gigantosaurus which is a story about dinosaurs. This week the children have discovered frozen dinosaurs in class and used a variety of tools to free the dinosaurs. This created a lot of discussion about what they could see, feel and hear. “The ice is melting!” “It’s…

Today we explored how night and day happens.

We explained how the Earth’s rotation results in night and day.

We also investigated shadow lengths and how they are impacted by the height of the sun.

Finally, we hypothesised what would happen if the Earth started spinning faster, slower or…

Year 1 History- Amelia Earhart 

The children enjoyed passing the different artefacts around the circle to find out who they belonged to.  We looked at different aeroplanes from the past and sequenced them on to a timeline. 

We have been looking at division. To show how this works we used counters to illustrate how it looks.

On Sunday it is the feast of the English Martyrs. In class today Y2 found out about the English Martyrs.

Today we have been investigating the effects that can be achieved by adding salt to a surface painted with watercolour.

Well done to our Year 6 netball team for competing in the South Sefton Netball League. The girls made fantastic progress throughout the year and enjoyed playing competitively. 

Today we explored the movement of the Moon.

We looked at the terms waxing and waning to explain how our view of the Moon changes.

Then we used the Lunar Calendar to predict the dates of the next full moon. 

In P.E this week, we continued to work on our vault techniques.

The children practiced using a range of different apparatus. 

This week we have been talking about healthy snacks and made our own wraps. The children were able to describe the different tastes, colours and shapes of the fillings. They carefully cut up the tomatoes and cucumber and then added what they wanted to their wraps to take home for lunch. Well done…

Scooping, pouring, investigating patterns, communicating, teamwork, scientific enquiry were just some of the skills being used in this small world play session in Nursery A this week.  The children were engrossed in their play for a long time.  One boy commented “Look, this snake is stripy but…

In our food technology session this weeek, the children have been creating fruit trees using a variety of fruit and bread sticks.  They then enjoyed eating them as a tasty snack.