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Year 4 had a lot of fun today learning more about the Stone Age. 

We built Stonehenge from biscuits and carved our own Stone Age tools and weapons out of soap.

The winners of the Stonehenge biscuit challenge were:

Elise

Naomi

Tyraleigh

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Year 5 have had a fun filled day today completing their Stone Age challenges.  They thoroughly enjoyed building Stonehenge out of biscuits, making jewellery and carving tools from their soap.

The winners of the Stonehenge challenge were Francesca and Precious.  Well…

The Great Fire of London

This week Year Two took part in a Great Fire of London workshop. They learnt lots of new facts and participated in group discussions about the fire. We also learnt a time line for the events and performed it for Mrs Johnson one of our governors who had made a special…

We had a great day at the theatre.

The children enjoyed the performance and were a credit to the school.

Yr3 had a great Stone Age workshop on Wednesday! We thoroughly enjoyed learning lots of new facts and we are now looking forward to Stone Age Day on Monday! Don’t forget your soap and biscuits!

This week Year 5 have been doing some drama work.  They have looked at the technique of creating a scene using only their bodies as props.  Thank you to Mrs Taylor, a volunteer for leading these sessions.

Today Silver Birch Class started their new Science topic on Electricity. 

First of all we turned all the lights off in the classroom to see how dark it was and how life would be without electricity.

The children then got into groups and brainstormed different types of electricial…

Year 4 are currently going swimming every Friday to Chorley swimming baths. They have been learning front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke

Each week we have our lesson then we play a game at the end. Well done to children in red group last week who won the swimming race. 

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Today the children have spent the morning learning more about the Stone Age from our workshop. We have certainly learnt some new and interesting facts. Next week will be having a Stone Age day! Don't forget your biscuits and soap. 

We have all enjoyed PE lessons this term with Mrs Clayton and Mrs Smith.

Last half term we learned how to play netball.

This half term we are busy creating our own Superhero Dance.

We have learned that gestures and good  facial expressions are key when…

This week in Year 3 we have taken inspiration from the Stone Age and created our own Stone Age paintings. We looked at different examples of cave paintings from around the world and used these ideas to create our own!

This week we have been studying the cave paintings from the Stone Age. We have researched and looked at lots using virtual tours of a cave in France, learnt how they would have created a type of paint and tools they may have used. We then had a go at making paint and painting tools  'Stone Age…