Blog Author: Miss Huddleston

Year 6 are currently learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the…

The Eco group managed to avoid the rain today and went out at lunchtime to check up on the trees we planted around the edge of the school field last year. With the help of Hilary from the Friends of Dorrington Woods, we learnt how to take off the tree guards and check if the saplings were still…

This term in Year 6 we have been reading the story “Stay Where You Are and then Leave” by John Boyne. As we near the end of the novel, we have decided to test each other’s knowledge of the story by writing our own quizzes on Purple Mash. Once they have been created, we will be able to share them…

Year 6 spent today’s maths lesson investigating the different mental methods, and informal jottings, which we could use to solve a variety of addition and subtraction problems. We worked in pairs to discuss how we could work out the answers and were surprised by the number of different…

Year 6 have been learning the classic poem, Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Many of the words are nonsense words, so we spent some time thinking about what these words could mean. This morning, we ventured down to the woods to rehearse and film our own performance of Jabberwocky. In groups, we found…

Year 6 spent this morning with Scott Wilcox, refreshing the training they did last year to be Playleaders for the younger children. They went over some of the basics of organising games to make sure they are fun, safe and active. Then Year 1 joined them, so they could try out their skills and some…

There was great excitement this afternoon in Year 6 as everyone signed into our Chromebooks for the first time and used them in our art lesson. We used them to research three artists, from different periods of history, who used the medium of drawing in their work: Michaelangelo, Edward Ardizzone…

Yesterday as part of PSHE Mrs Ventress set us a challenge.  We had to build a bridge using limited time and materials, which fitted a specific brief. We worked in teams and we’re judged not only on how many toy cars our finished bridge would hold but also our teamwork skills. Was the winning team…

Debbie and Abbie came to teach us about the life journey of St.Paul, who our school is named after. We found out how meeting God changed the direction of his life completely. We saw how his life journey contained trials, persecution and triumphs and looked at how he was able to overcome these with…

Our adventure at Lockerbie finished on a “high” today, with all groups tackling the climbing wall and the abseil tower. We were able to use the skills we learnt and our experiences from crate stacking and high ropes to help us in these final challenges. Following a final meal, we set off home and…

We have had another day of glorious weather and exciting activities. Many of us have been up in the woods learning survival skills, as well as tackling some very tricky initiative problems, where we had to work in a team to solve a variety of puzzles. We also tried out our fencing skills and had…