Our blogs
I will huff and I will puff!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 16th Nov 2023 @ 9:19pm
This week the penguins have been creating a new home for the three little pigs in their DT work. They had a variety of resources to choose from. When the homes were finished the children took it in turns to talk about their design and explain what they had ‘joined’ and also what they had ‘connected’.
We had upside down houses, dens and even homes that had added sparkle! We then put the homes to the test! We didn’t have a wolf so the next best thing was a hairdryer to huff and puff the houses down.
The homes won! A few wobbled and a few almost took off but they were so well made the three pigs were safe and sound!
The penguins have done amazing phonics work this week as they have had some very tricky sounds. Please continue to read each day to help the children become confident with these sounds.
Already the children are counting down the sleeps until their buddies walk them to church next week for our celebration assembly.
The penguins have chosen their own parts for the year one / reception Christmas play. A letter will come out next week to ask for you to send in any items needed for their costume.
Thank you
Pictures to follow shortly.
Remembrance, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Nov 2023 @ 6:09pm
On Friday we held our Remembrance service, the children showed a great deal of respect throughout the service. Our guided reading texts have been connected to Remembrance this week and in English we have been learning about animals in World War 1. The children were given a free writing task, a poem, prayer, a factsheet. Here are a few of their creations.
Science, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 12th Nov 2023 @ 6:06pm
We have been looking at lots of animals and matching the baby animal with their adult. Some looked their adult some didn't.
Our special remembrance service., by Mrs Thomson
Date: 12th Nov 2023 @ 10:37am
The penguins have embraced their learning this week.
We have been working hard on our ‘Traditional Tales’ topic. We have looked at how some stories change over time, pictures and books from the past and how many of the traditional tales begin - long, long ago and once upon a time. We enjoyed looking at Evies special non fiction book.
We will be baking next week and the penguins are looking forward to this.
We have enjoyed our shape work in maths this week which took us on a journey at looking at the art work produced by Kandinsky. We have recreated his work which has been admired by many children and teachers in school already.
The children are enjoying their writing activities in class. Did they tell you we covered the carpet with wallpaper for them to practise their name writing?
On Friday the penguins joined the whole school for a very special remembrance assembly. The children listened to our very special guest Mr. Turner.
We have started learning our Christmas songs in class! How exciting!
Special Guest, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 8:18pm
This afternoon we welcomed Katherine Fletcher, the Member of Parliament for South Ribble to school. Katherine asked the children lots of questions about what they knew about parlaiment and their answers were fantastic. She then spoke about herself, her interests, former careers. The children then asked a whole variety of execllent questions. A great launchpad for Parliament Week next week.
Remembrance Day, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 7:10pm
This morning we had our anual Remebrance Service in the hall. We were once again joined by Mr Turner from the Royal British Legion.
This year Thiomas played the Last Post on his trombone- he was magnificent.
Remembrance Day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 5:23pm
We had an interesting morning learning all about Remembrance Day, we talked about why we celebrate, looked at old photos of WW2 , took part in our special assembly and talked about we we had dressed up as.
The children all looked amazing, thank you for supporting, the sun was their eyes for the photos hence some are grimacing!!!
Enjoy your weekend. :)
Fire Service Visit, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 7:30pm
We had a visitor to our classroom this week, Firefighter Josh.
He told us about his different roles; putting out fires, rescuing farm animals from ditches, carrying out fire safety checks, helping when there is a flood, cutting people out of cars in an accident and dealing with grass fires and chemical spills. One job he has never personally had to do was rescue a cat from a tree - an idea from the tribe.
He talked about Stop, Drop and Roll. This is what you do if part of your clothing caught on fire. Well done Oliver for an excellent demonstration.
We listened to a fire alarm and discussed how we would get out of the house, checking door handles to see if they were hot and crawling along the floor to keep out of the rising smoke.
Once out stay out, you must never go back in for anything.
D.T. Structures, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 7:23pm
This week we began our DT topic by exploring the stability of different structures.
A wonderful week for the Panda Tribe, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 5:38pm
What a great week we have had to kick start our second half-term of Autumn. The children have started their new science topic (State of Matter) through exploring, extending and engaging in investigations of matter, we gained knowledge of bees in reading response through information texts and finished the week with a playscript. We developed our atlas skills in our geography unit (Britain from the air) and began training with our new tennis coach, Joe.
A great week for the tribe, the even achieved three class compliments on the tracker! Well done Pandas!
Class compliment, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 5:06pm
Today the Graffe enjoyed a well deserved class compliment treat.They voted to watch a film and have some popcorn.
Have a lovely weekend, enjoy the fireworks , keep safe 🌟
Engineers and photographers!, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 7:02am
Welcome back Penguins!
It is lovely to have everyone back with lots of stories to share and of course our ‘All about me’ books to talk about. We have had a lovely first week back.
The penguins would love to tell you about their Jack and the Beanstalk PE, the firework pictures they have made using their own paint ‘swisslers’, the parcel that was delivered to our class, the baby hedgehog on our playground and our work on the gingerbread man! Yesterday the penguins spent the day as engineers. They had to plan and build escape routes for the gingerbread man! Bridges and boats were made, tested, rebuilt, made stronger, then longer and when they finally thought they had the great escape they got to test our class gingerbread man on it. He did get quite soggy!
The penguins have been helping to take a picture of their number work this week using the iPad. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed the task. However 751 pictures has taken Mrs. Thomson a long time to work through!
The children have enjoyed their new sounds this week. They have learnt the name of our new two letter sounds - digraph (two letters that make only one sound). New sounds have been put in your book bag for you to add to your sound wallet.
Homework this week is letter formation. All of the letters on the sheet start with the curly c. Once the children have mastered this letter the rest will seem a little less tricky. I always remind the children that my pencil shoots up like a rocket to start each curly c.
Thank you for your support over the holidays with reading. Please continue to read each night to help embed the new sounds that are taught each week. A big thank you from Mrs. Morrison for signing your record books or adding a comment to let us know your child has read at home. This is a great help.
Pip Penguin will be coming home each weekend with a child who has made a wonderful effort in their reading. He will be bringing a book to share with you over the weekend and a hot chocilate treat for your penguin to enjoy.
Eco Halloween, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 8:19am
A big thank you to some of the Eco team who helped Kelly create some funky Halloween decorations out of milk cartons They looked fab..and the team enjoyed helping out!
Story session, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 31st Oct 2023 @ 3:29pm
We enjoyed a Halloween themed story session at the library, some funny stories and we made a spooky ghost!
P.E. Games, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Oct 2023 @ 2:48pm
Lots of Friday fun for the end of half term. The chidlren really enjoyed their parachute games.
Projects, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Oct 2023 @ 2:40pm
You are all so talented, we had so many fantastic projects about our leanring or a topic which is of interest to you. Well done.
Science - Humpty Dumpty, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Oct 2023 @ 2:35pm
Humpty Dumpty has a problem. He getting hurt. The children had to explore the different materisl to choose 1 which would protect Humpty, be comfortable to waer and not too heavy.
The children worked in groups to protect Humpty using different materials. They then tested them out to see which material would be best for Humpty Dumpty.
History - Rosa Parks, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 26th Oct 2023 @ 2:32pm
We have enjoyed our histiry lesson on Rosa Parks, we listened to her story of how she stood up for what she beleived in. We acted it out and thought about the feelings of the people involved.
Projects Autumn 1, by Mr Kennedy
Date: 23rd Oct 2023 @ 1:48pm
Thank you for all your hard work on your projects, they were all delightful!
Friday fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 4:53pm
Today we enjoyed our computer lesson and created some fab pictures.
This afternoon we had time with our buddies and played some playground games with them. We had fun!
Have a lovely break , don’t forget to let us know what you get up to in your holiday passports!
Keep safe and enjoy!🙂
Well done Elephants, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 10:50am
We have reached the end of our first half term together , it has flown by. This week has been so good, getting to talk to parents about how hard everyone is working and looking through your books to see how much progress has been made.
Over half term make sure you have lots of fun, go on Times Tables Rockstars, read a book and pop something in your holday passport. Oh and look at your words for the assembly on the Wednesday that we come back to school.
Autumn Week, by Mrs Thomson
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 10:16pm
This week the Penguins have been enjoying Autumn Week. They all helped to plan this week and so far we have been collecting Autumn leaves to make an Autumn reef and we have had a lovely afternoon with our buddies. We enjoyed hot chocolate as we have definitely felt the weather a little colder this week. The penguins created a pumpkin soup using Autumn colours and lots of scooping! The smell of the pumpkin certainly split the group! Some loved it whilst others really didn’ t like it at all.
Our phonics work has introduced j and v so far.
The children have enjoyed their maths work this week. They have been looking at number patterns and learning to recognise the patterns without counting. Please ask about the ladder game the children played and drew out on the playground.
In our Jigsaw (PSED) lesson this week we are focusing on ‘Gentle Hands’. We will be talking about the wonderful, kind and useful things that we do with our hands.
Autumn walk, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 4:36pm
We had a lovely Autumn walk to the Brickcroft, spotted signs of Autumn and also used our senses to see a lot and hear a lot.
As they have had such a fantastic start to Year 1 , even time for a sneaky play on the park!
KS1 event, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 3:58pm
Well done to Kit, Issac, Molly P and Lydia in Year 2 who went to Priory and took part in a multi sport event with other local schools. Theye were amazing and loved all the different activities!
