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The whole school had a great time this afternoon, taking part in a choice of activities to help us relax. Activities available included mindfulness colouring, forest schools, cross stitch, Lego, jigsaws and reading to name just a few. Several children enjoyed decorating biscuits as one of their…

We enjoyed practising our gymnastic sequences on the apparatus this week. 

We really enjoyed our local walk through the woods and onto the field. We looked at the nature around us, we talked, we laughed and we played lots of fun games. To make us feel even better ....the sun was shining ! Hooray

Today we have been investigating air resistance by making different sized parachutes and dropping them from a height to observe the speed at which they fall. We found out that the larger the parachute the slower they fall as air resistance slows them down.

We have been building upon our own Matisse style collages. We have been practising the skill of plaiting and added it onto our collages.

Today the children took part in the Lancaster and District Schools’ Singing Festival at the Ashton Hall in Lancaster. They sang beautifully, remembered all the words and actions and even learnt some sign language too. What a credit to the school they all were. Well done Y4, we are really proud of…

Today we spent some time in the playground looking for signs of spring.  We found lots of shoots starting to appear and even saw some flowering plants too.

In geography we have started learning about Europe - our home continent. Today we looked at human features of different countries including languages, currency and flags. We used the internet and fact sheets to research these for lots of different European countries. 
 

We are waiting for Easter. We are making links between new life, spring and our animal topic.

Two of our School Council have been working our how to make out grounds more "green". They met with Ruth and Sarah from Barton Grange and looked at possible designs for our ramp area.

On Tuesday they went to Barton Grange and bought items to help with this project with a voucher for £100 which…

We loved having Holly’s pet dog in today. We found out all about how to look later dogs, what he eats and what he likes. We asked lots of interesting questions. 
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As the culmination of their geography work on world trade, Year 6 used all their knowledge to help them understand the supply chain involved in chocolate production. They were shocked to find that from the £1 retail price of a bar of chocolate, the cocoa farmers in Ghana only receive 8p! Through…