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Voting took place today to choose class representitives for the School Council. The Year 2 children enjoyed the experience. The results will be announced tomorrow.

Year 5 finished their topic on the United Kingdom by learning two traditional country dances. Thank you Mrs Dunn for your expertise, we had great fun. 🎵

Year 5 had a very musical morning with Mr Gilmour. He’s very kindly helping us to write a school song and put music to it. It’s a work in progress and we can’t wait to hear the final production 🎵🎶

Year 6 have created some fantastic pieces of art linked to our Literacy. ‘Tyger, Tyger burning bright, in the forests of the night…’ 🐯

The children in Year 5 were inspired by the artist Ken Done. Using pastels and chalk and following his tips they have created their interpretations of famous British Landmarks that we have been studying in Geography. Can you tell what/where they are?

Well done to our Year 4 Orienteering team who had a fantastic time this morning in an Orienteering competition at Foulridge St Michael’s Primary School. The children had to work in pairs to find all the controls around the school grounds in as fast a time as possible. They all did super and loved the…

Year 1 enjoyed celebrating Marvin’s birthday on Wednesday afternoon as part of our English lessons. We sequenced the events today and we are now ready to plan and a write a recount of the celebrations. Well done Year 1 🙂

Year 6 had a fantastic day at Blackpool Zoo finding out about Adaptation for Survival! We have a lot of photos to look through but here are a few to start off with 😃🦒🦓🐘🦍 #handson #learningexperience

During a break in the weather, Year 2 managed to slip outside today to try out our line drawing skills. We have been looking at the drawings and paintings of thye scottish artist, Adrian McMurchie https://amcmurchie.com/ and tried to copy his style,

Today our Science challenge in Year 5 was to find out what the best insulator would be to keep our drinks nice and warm. The children chose their own materials and then tested them out using a thermometer to measure accurately.

Year 5 had a very interesting day learning all about the Anglo Saxons. We found out about who the Anglo Saxons were, the clothes, had a go at games they played and tried on some of the weaponry and armour.

Well done to the Year 3/4 Foot Golf team who had a fantastic time tonight at Fisher More in the Foot Golf Festival. Lots of fun had by everyone involved and they also recorded some great scores – including 2 hole in ones! ⚽️⛳️

Year 1 loved having parents visit us in class yesterday afternoon. All of the children created some fantastic family trees and were able to tell me who was in their family and who was the oldest and youngest. An excellent afternoon! Thank you to all parents who came in to work with us. 🙂

In Year 2’s quest to find out about life 100 years ago, the children tried using slates. They really enjoyed using them, but Mr. Browne is not sure if he would like to take 30 slates home to mark.

For our learning in Geography Year 3 went on a walk around their local area. We used a map to navigate from school to the Town Square and then to Valley Gardens. On our journey we developed our fieldwork skills by collecting and recording the names of streets, roads, and buildings that we passed. We…

Year 2 have been investigating what school life was like in the past. The children loved playing with a collection of Victorian games, but weren’t too sure if they would swap them for their X-Boxes.

Super Science in Year 5 What a fun morning. Year 5 had to investigate which material they could stretch the most. They chose their own materials and recorded the results. Ask your child which one worked best.

Well done to the Year 5/6 Football team from tonight’s opening round of fixtures in the Central Venue League at Fisher More. The boys drew 1 and lost 2. ⚽️

Year 2 attempted to record the different textures they found around school by making rubbings. More art work based on the school coming soon.

Year 5 made a super start to their map skills. They completed an atlas treasure hunt to find key places in the United Kingdom. See how many places they can tell you and some physical and human features of those places.

Year 2 were busy using iPads to ‘collect’ sounds as part of their computing work on sound this half term. The children really enjoyed the activity. They will have more activities with sound and iPads over the coming weeks.

Well done to the Year 5/6 Girls Cricket team from this afternoon’s Pendle District finals at Colne Cricket Club. The team finished in 4th position today. A great achievement alone to get to the borough finals when you consider all the schools in Pendle who have competed in their local clusters. Well done girls! 🏏

We had an awesome day learning about the Romans with our visitor, Gaius Flavius Longimus! He taught us lots about the Roman army, how the Romans lived and what the Romans did for us. It was a great historical learning day. In Year 3, we have been learning to write a play script based on…

We had an unexpected guest in school today. A bat made its home on the board outside Year 4’s classroom and watched us having dinner in the hall at lunch time. He (or she?) was placed in a box and collected by a bat expert in the afternoon to be released locally tonight.

Year 5 have had a great Cricket session this morning with Ex Cricket professional – Joe Scuderi from Lancashire County Cricket Club. The children learnt the key fundamentals of fielding. Next week they move on to batting skills. Well done Year 5! 🏏

Here are a few more photos from the Year 2 trip today.

Year 2 had a great day at Blackpool today. Here are some of our photos from the top of the tower and creating sand art on the beach at St. Annes.

Well done to our Year 3/4 Tennis team. This team of children came Runners Up this afternoon in the Pendle Schools Tennis competition at Pendle Vale College. The team won all 3 of their games against other Pendle schools before narrowly getting beat off Earby in the final. Well done to all of you! 🎾🥈

A team of children from Year 5/6 had a great time this morning taking part in a Duathlon Challenge at the Steven Burke Cycling Hub. All the children had to run 200 metres, cycle 600 metres and then drop their bike and run an extra 200 metres. The children all completed this challenge. Well done…

We have had 2 sporting events occur today. This afternoon we had the girls cricket team compete in the West Craven cluster at Earby Cricket Club and we are pleased to inform you that the girls are through to the Pendle School finals in a few weeks time. We have also had a Year 3/4…

Year 3 have been working on the story ‘The Tunnel’ by Anthony Browne. We then wrote our own adventure stories based on it. They were so good we had to share them! Thank you Year 2 for visiting us and listening so well to our stories.

As part of our topic on ‘How does your garden grow?’ The children in Year 3 had to design and make a mini greenhouse in D.T. We looked at the properties of greenhouses, evaluated existing greenhouses, looked at stability and structure then designed and made our own. It was great fun!

Year 1 loved Sports Day last week. The children enjoyed all of the races and were very excited to see our special visitor from BFC.

Year 2 were busy today in the allotment. We planted out our broadbean and sweetcorn seedlings and looked for minibeasts in the various micro-habitats that we found at the allotment.

Well done to our Year 5/6 Tag Rugby team from today’s Tag Rugby Mega Festival at Holt House. The team won 3, drew 2 and lost 1. They were a fantastic team – well done guys! 🏉

Year 3 had a fantastic day at Harlow Carr. The sun shone all day as we explored the beautiful gardens. We found out all about pollinators and the names of the different parts of a flower. We also had fun on the adventure playground!

More Year 2 Sports Day photos. Well done everyone who took part and thank you parents for cheering us on.

Year 2 loved Sports Day. More photos of Year 2 to come later today.