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This week we have begun to read a new story called - 'Lost and Found'.  We have met a penguin and a boy in the story and the lost penguin even came to visit us in class!  We are looking after hime well and will help him find his way home.

This week we have been learning about fractions. We started by making a 1/2 and a 1/4 line on two plates. We then used fractions cards to split Smarties into halves and quarters. We discussed whether we would like to eat half or a quarter of the sweets. 

Next week we will be learning how to…

Ian Richardson came in to school on Monday to thank the children for their fundrasing last year for the Chilli Children Trust, which supports children in Uganda.

Last year we raised over £300 to help the children. Ian shared a video of the children in Uganda, and how their money is being used…

Year 5 have been learning about the 8 phases of the moon.  Today they recreated these using Oreo biscuits.  It really helped them to understand how the moon changes shape over the course of a lunar month. 

It was also a bonus that they got to eat the spare biscuits after the…

This week, Year 3 have been learning  a range of cooking skills. On Wednesday we learned how to make a traditional stew. The stew was based on a 100 year old recipe, to give the children an idea what people would eat in Chorley over 100 years ago. The children had to hygienically prepare the…

Mrs Smith started her sessions on healthy lifestyles this week. It was interesting to learn about how food helps us in different ways and to understand portion sizes. 

Well done to Molly.

You are a very polite young lady. I am very proud of you and how well you represent this school.

In outdoor club, the children have been learning about tracking animals by their prints. The children then created their own animal tracks on our playground for the others to work out the animal. We had lots of fun and loved tracking the different animals. 

We have been learning about the properties of regular 2D shapes. We worked in groups to guess shapes by listening to a description of  their mathematical properties and matching the shapes using art straws and pin boards. 

Some children investigated regular triangles, asking the question; are…

This half term we have been carrying out an investigation on our KS1 garden area. We have found out about micro-habitats and we wanted to know if our garden provided a good enough environment for the essential insects that are needed to help flowers and plants to grow. We mapped out our gardern…

Over this half term, we have been learning all about humans.  Today we learned about the five senses and we went on a senses walk around school.  We used our senses of; touch, sight, smell and hearing to explore our environment.

Well done to everyone and a big thank you for all your kind donations of socks.

We have 161 pairs of socks so far.

Miss Carter will be taking them to the Help the Homeless charity over half term.

A big thank you to you all for making a difference.