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Year 3 had a fantastic morning today building an enormous tetrahedron in the school hall! Using only wooden dowel and elastic bands, each child made their own tetrahedron, then under Dr Martin’s guidance everyone’s shape was attached together to make a final tetrahedron over 4…

Building Bridges

We have had a fun afternoon of design technology. With Dr Martin, we have worked in groups to build a bridge which could support a vehicle carrying supplies of food to the other side. To be successful we had to:

1. Build the longest bridge we could.
2. Create a vehicle that…

Today, Year 4 had great fun moving around all the different gymnastic apparatus in our PE session.

 Some pupils were very brave and challenged themselves to try out climbing up the rope ladders and climbing frame and demonstrating some super balances.  Just look at our fantastic shapes that we…

The last Monday before the holidays has been a fun filled day. We have had the most amazing time creating our very own lego city. Look at the pictures to see how the morning developed :

From this...

to this in just a morning.

Amazing!!

For homework, Year 4 have have been asked to take part in the 'What's your story, Chorley?' competition.  All children in Chorley can enter and there are prizes for each age group as well as overall winners and commendations.    All entries will be put on display in Chorley Library with winning…

Reception class really enjoyed their visit to Asda this week. Danny and his colleagues showed us the whole store including the warehouse, the fridge and the home shopping area. All the children took a turn scanning the shopping on the checkout and, if you ask them, they may well be able to tell…

Year 5 are currently looking at local history, with a focus on the impact of WW2 on Chorley.

The children are already showing a great deal of enthusiasm for the topic so it would be great if they could do some research at home about the changes that took place within the community.

Today we have been learning about children's lives in Victorian times.We looked at the different jobs that children as young as 5 did. We found out that a lot of children worked on the streets and sold things like firewood, buttons and boot laces. Some children also worked as chimney sweeping or…

After playing in the snow we have written some fantastic personification poems.

The Snow 

As he danced through the peaceful sky,

he snuggled into his final resting place.

As he tickled, played and swerved,

he finally stumbled to the ground.

The mob of flakes are…

We welcomed Danny from Asda into Reception Class this week. Danny talked to us about fruit and we tried seven different fruits including lime and passion fruit. Some of the fruits were more popular than others! We are enjoying learning about food and healthy eating this term. Next week we will…

Wow! What an amazing set of entries for our Decorated Egg competition!

The children have obviously enjoyed being creative at home (some parents too!). We were amazed by some of the fantastic designs.

Congratulations to Hollie (first), Kady (second) and Amelia (third). We thought Amelia's…