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Year 2 discovered that bunny hopping for 15 minutes is not easy. Well done everyone with their fundraising today.

Year 1 loved performing their innovated story last week! The children used ‘Talk for Writing’ to help them to remember their new characters and events in their story. Fantastic effort by all and some excellent innovated stories written by the children ?

Well done to our Year 3 Cricket team who really enjoyed their Cricket Festival tonight at Pendle Vale College. The team showed some great potential throughout the evening. Big thank you to all parents who came to cheer us on! ?

Year 5 had a fantastic day out at Manchester Science and Industry Museum. We enjoyed our workshop on Forces and Flight, as well as exploring all the amazing galleries around the museum. The children’s behaviour was exemplary as always ??

Our Year 1 and 2 children have had a fantastic afternoon having a taster in to Cricket with ex Australia Cricket International – Joe Scuderi, who runs the All Stars Cricket programme. The children learnt the 3 main skills of cricket. Batting, bowling and fielding. If your child is in Year 1/2 and would like…

In ICT Year 5 were learning about digital communication and took part in a live video conference with Ashford CofE Primary School (Surrey). We asked and answered lots of different questions based on school, locality and hobbies. Both classes thoroughly enjoyed the session.

Wow- what a wonderful surprise I have just had! Year 1 presented their ‘Talk for Writing’ to myself and Mrs Toor. It was absolutely fantastic and made my day. ???Mrs Walker ?

Some of the Year 5 and 6 children went on an exciting visit to Rolls-Royce yesterday. During the visit the children were able to enjoy a tour of the manufacturing process which showed the children how Rolls-Royce make their components, and why subjects at school are such an important part of the industry. The children…

Year 5 have started their weekend adventure!!

This week the children in Year 2 have been finding out about salad. We started by investigating (and tasting) salad leaves. We weren’t too impressed by rocket, but came up with some good adjectives to describe its strong, peppery taste.

Getting to know plants in Year 2 this week.

Well done Year 3 and Year 4! What fantastic performances of Jack and the Bean Stalk. Brilliant hard work. You did yourself proud.

Year 3 found out how to play a new game in golden time today. See if they can tell you how to play Beetle.

Year 3 were very surprised this afternoon. First they were told to scrunch their paper up, then to rip it and finally to do their art work on the floor and under the tables! We tried to make the classroom as ‘cave like’ as we could. I think they enjoyed learning all about Cave drawings.

Well done to our Year 5/6 Athletics team who came runners up this morning at West Craven Leisure Centre in the West Craven Cluster B Team Athletics competition. They all recorded some great scores throughout their running, jumping and throwing events! ?‍♂️

Well done to this team of children who enjoyed the Year 5/6 B team football competition at Fisher More tonight. They drew 2 games 0-0 and lost just 1 game 1-0. Good work team! ⚽️

The chair challenge. Year 2 were challenged to program a Bee-Bot to make a complete circuit around four legs of a chair. Can you spot the mistake with one of our algorithms?

Last week, as part of their explorers topic, Year 2 were busy testing materials to make the soles of space boots. Green, shiny card was a popular choice, however, it didn’t last long on planet Gisburn Road. The children are now experts at explaining whether a test is fair or not.

To keep up to date with events in school, please visit our website using the following link:- https://www.gisburnroad.com/calendar Calendar – Barnoldswick Gisburn Road Community Primary School February 2019 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 Year 1 Parents Assembly – Junior Hall Year 1 Parents Assembly – Junior Hall 1st February 2019  3:00 pm –…

Well done to our Year 3/4 Athletics team who did great this afternoon at the West Craven cluster Athletics competition which was held at West Craven Leisure Centre. The children all underwent some throwing, jumping and running events and recorded some excellent scores! #teamwork ?‍♂️?‍♀️

Year 1 enjoyed running a mile today. They were all very excited about using the bands to count how many laps they could do and gave 100% effort. The children were praised for their fantastic behaviour and excellent manners. Well done Year 1!

Climbing today in Year 2 as part of our explorers theme. We will all get a go over the next week or two.

Programming our new Bee-Bots. The children in Year 2 were challenged to write code that would make their Bee-Bots travel in a rectanglar pathway.

A team of children from Year 3 & 4 had a very fun afternoon today. Gisburn Road hosted a Football Festival on our school MUGA with all the West Craven cluster of schools attending to make it a great afternoon with lots of football matches being played. Thank you to Kelbrook, Earby, Coates Lane, Salterforth…

A group of children from Year 3 & 4 had a fantastic time tonight at a Multi-Skills Festival at Pendle Vale College. Lots of skills were learnt and lots of fun was had! ?

Year 3 have been examining fossils very carefully as part of our Art work. They used magnifying glasses to look really carefully before sketching them. This week we used charcoal and other media to create larger versions of these fossils – it got a little bit messy!

Year 3 used a freeze frame activity to retell the story of Stig of the Dump. They knew all the key events and could act it out as well as write it. Ask the children what they were in the pictures.

Well done to this team of children from Year 5/6 who thoroughly enjoyed the Pendle Schools Dodgeball competition tonight at Fisher More High School ?

A photo from Friday's assembly – Ilsa and Lesley from Barnoldswick in Bloom dropped in to thank the children for their help in winning a gold certificate in the North West in Bloom competition this summer. The judges especially liked our allotment which they visited, along with our planter near the Co-op. A special well…

Year 1 had a very special visitor today. The children were very excited to have breakfast with Santa and loved spending some time with him in class.