Our blogs
Remembering those people who served our county, by Mrs Doherty
Date: 11th Nov 2020 @ 1:22pm
Meeting New Friends, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 8:46pm
We had a lovely time this afternoon meeting the Swallows. The Swallows are one of the Year 2 classes at Barden Primary School in Burnley. We shared a PowerPoint about our school and the children from Barden shared memories of lockdown.
We are very proud of our PowerPoint as we chose what we wanted to talk about and we all decided where we should take photographs.
Where the poppies now grow, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 2:46pm
This week our focus story is where the poppies now grow by Hilary Robinson. We have been making suncatcher poppies, painting poppies and really thinking about the soldiers, armed forces and why people choose to wear a poppy.
A Christmas recipe, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 10th Nov 2020 @ 12:05pm
Hi
Sorry, it is a message about Christmas. We will be doing a nativity play in reception and we are busy learning songs and getting costumes. Please can you encourage your child to learn their words if they have them for the play and also sing the songs.
We will record the play and then you can all see the children online x x x
A great week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 4:54pm
The Pandas have enjoyed learning about part part whole to help them with their addition. In English and History they enjoyed learning about rockets and space, finding about Robert Goddard.Ask them what he did! They were also interested to find out about Guy Fawkes and the gun powder plot. We discussed how we know about things in the past, some great ideas.
Have a good weekend, keep safe see you on Monday 🙂🙃🙂
First week back, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 2:38pm
It has been a very busy first week back. The children have enjoyed all of their learning and have made an enthusiastic start to our new geography topic on Preston Docks.
Please can you write a comment in the new yellow reading record every time your child reads. Reading books MUST be changed on MONDAYS and can be changed again on Wednesday and Friday. They will only be changed if we have evidence in the reading records that they have been read.
Some of our castle engineers have been at work today and have added a moving drawbridge to their castles.
We have been out and about today taking phoyographs ready to show the Cchildren at Barden Primaary School in Burnley on Tuesday afternoon.
Y4 Blog, by Mr Pearson
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 1:08pm
Maths
This week we have been doing lengths such as km, cm, and mm. We have been doing questions like 1m+123cm and 90mm+20cm.
English
We have made our own paper boats with origami and started thinking about writing our own story about the picture book called Float (picture books mean no words).
Music
We have been performing a bonfire night song on the chime bar boxes called its bonfire night and we also played games with the chime bar boxes.
Computing
We have been making music online and doing a fact file all about how tech changed music in a way that makes it techno poppy.
Drama
We have been sorted into groups to perform the gGrinch in the next few weeks some people have been making scripts rather than improvisation
y5 class blog by Grace Martha and Anya, by Mr Croft
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 12:28pm
On Monday we practiced equiviliant fractions in Maths and learned about different compass points in Geography. In grammar we looked at relative clauses.
On Tuesday we did The Hand Jive in PE and continued to practice equivilant fractions in Maths. In English we practiced our complex sentence skills and we finished the day by creating Marble Run's in DT.
On Wednesday we compared different types of fractions in Maths and had French, ICT and Music with Mr. Richards in the afternoon.
Thursday we did Dadaism in Art and continued to practice our musical beats. We continued to practice our fractions skills in Maths and ended the day by speeding up our Hand Jive and adding new movements in PE.
On Friday we created portraits of our faces in a Dada style as a surprise for our art teacher next week and we did a few tests in the morning to practice our skills.
by Anya, Grace and Martha
Homework, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 5th Nov 2020 @ 1:30pm
This weeks homework can be found on Google Classroom. It is a maths activity to make 20. The missing number in each calculation needs to be typed in .
Who is Julia Donaldson?, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 4th Nov 2020 @ 7:59am
Welcome back to school for another half term full of fun and learning. Our topic this half term is looking at the books of Julia Donaldson. We kick off this topic with the story Room on the Broom. I will be sending out the new topic letter, pick and mix homework by paper copies, but I have also added them along with other bits and bobs to the class page under files for you to download.
Hope you are all keeping safe and well.
Art - painting - colour mixing, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 3rd Nov 2020 @ 8:06pm
Today we began our art topic. We looked at some work by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe, her vivid flowers and some of her later work on landscapes showing mountains.
Today we used the 3 primary colours to make secondary colours. We then choose a either red or blue and added black or white to make different shades of the colour. We learnt that you only need a little bit of black paint!
AUTUMN 2nd HALF TERM, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:39pm
I can’t wait to see you all in the morning. I hope you have had a lovely family half term break. We have lots of exciting things planned for the next 7 weeks.
On our main class page you will find our long term curriculum plan which gives you information about our topics for this half term.
Our main maths focus will be multiplication and division. Make sure you are learning those times tables. 
Swimming update, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:34pm
Unfortunately we won’t be going swimming this half term. As soon as the situation changes we will let you know.
Our finished fossils, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:30pm
Geography - developing our skills using an atlas., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:29pm
We have been using atlases a lot this last few weeks. Today we used physical maps to locate the main mountain ranges of the world.
Marshmallows everywhere., by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:27pm
Thank you to everyone who supported our enterprise. We made over 230 marshmallow kebabs for you all to enjoy.
The children get to decide what to do with their profit. Half will go to charity (exact one yet to be decided) the rest has been spent on Christmas sewing kits and magnets for a Christmas science and DT project. If there is any left we are going to buy more books for our class library.
Multiplication 2x 5x 10x, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:20pm
We worked out the missing numbers from the calculations, we practiced using a top marks game and played multiplication board games.
London Landmark research, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 7:01pm
As part of our non-fiction writing we took Paddington to different London landmarks. We researched them by creating a quiz, swapping them with our friends and then trying to find the answers.
Stone Age drawing, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 1st Nov 2020 @ 6:59pm
Here are a few pictures of us creating our Stone Age cave pictures.
Last day PE fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 6:40pm
A great last day morning for the Pandas, using their gymnastic skills on the apparatus. Lots of terrific travelling, amazing rolling and super jumping - well done Pandas.
Have a lovely break , keep safe - see you all soon🌟😆
Making Castles, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 2:06pm
There is great excitement amongst the Koals this afternoon as they make their castles. Boxes have been covered and are now being transformed into stunning castles. Once decorated the children will be using straw, string and scissors to create a working drawbridge.
Fancy Dress part 2, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 7:07pm
Fancy Dress and Disco time, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 22nd Oct 2020 @ 6:55pm
Today we have had a fun day coming to school in fancy dress. We had a fashion parade and walked down the catwalk, swirling and twirling to show all of our friends our amazing outfits. In the afternoon we went in small groups into the hall to dance and play games, we all bought some little goodies at the Halloween Shop.
Holiday Passports, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 8:58pm
In Year 1 your child was given a Holiday Passport to complete during school holidays. I have 13 of them in school and will be sending them home tomorrow for the children to use over half term. If your child has their passport at home please can you return them to school during the week beginning Monday 9th November. If you have misplaced your passport please can you let me know so I can issue a new one.
Over the holiday please can the children read as often as possible and use fast phonics on Reading Eggs.
PE kits will be comimg home on Thursday and on Friday pencil cases will be coming home. Some of them may need restocked during the holidays. The children only need pencils, pencil crayons, a rubber and a pencil sharpener. If they have felt pens in their pencil cases they can continue to bring them .
Mrs Fletcher
Pumpkin Soup, by Mrs Hothersall
Date: 21st Oct 2020 @ 6:28pm
One of our stories this week was pumpkin soup. We decided to make some and have fun with pumpkins.
