Year 5 - Chocolate Bingo
Jade from Tesco's community champions visited Year 5 today to play a game of stand up bingo. Every child received a ticket and sat down with a bag of sweets when their number was called. The last person standing was Layla, who won an Easter egg. Thank you so much to the Tesco for coming today.
Year 6 - Stand Up Bingo
Today we had a special visit from Tesco, who led a fun game of “Stand Up Bingo”. Each child started standing with a raffle ticket and as their numbers were called, they sat down, until only one person remained standing. It was great fun for everyone involved and a big well done to Seb Taylor for being our class winner!
Times Table Rockstars Champions
A huge well done to our KS2 Times Table Rockstars champions for this month! Congratulations to: Charlie G – Year 3 Isabelle – Year 4 Charlie – Year 5 Isabelle – Year 6 A special shoutout to our class winners too: Lower Key Stage 2: Year 3 Upper Key Stage 2: Year 6 A Fantastic effort by everyone—keep rocking those times tables!
Year 5 - Easter Crowns
On Thursday, we will be raising money for the East Lancs Hospice by doing a sponsored 1km hop, skip and jump. The children can be sponsored through the forms they have taken home and any money can be contributed through parent pay. They will be wearing their spectacular Easter crowns, which they made today, while they are getting their steps in.
Year 1: Toy Museum
Year 1 loved showing their adults all of their learning in our toy museum. They played with old and modern toys together and taught their parents lots of new facts.
Year 3 Food Technology: Peeling, Cutting and Grating
Today, we became young chefs as we mastered essential food technology skills like peeling, cutting, and grating to prepare for our seasonal tarts. At our busy preparation station, we practised the "claw" and "bridge" cutting techniques to safely slice sweet strawberries, crunchy carrots, and juicy pears. We also revisited our Year 2 skills by grating and snipping ingredients to create different textures. By focusing on our Year 3 progression, we learned how to handle a peeler effectively and decided which parts of our fruit and vegetables were best to eat. To ensure we didn't waste any food, we used our prepared ingredients to make our fruit tarts in the afternoon. ready for us to evaluate in our next lesson!
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Year 3-Food Technology: Seasonal and Imported Foods- Fruit tart
Throughout this unit, we have explored the fascinating journey of how our food reaches our plates. We discovered that while "seasonal" eating means choosing fruits that grow nearby at certain times of year, it is often difficult to make a truly seasonal fruit tart because so much of our food is imported from all over the world. This is why we have such a huge variety of choices at the shops! To make our delicious fruit tarts, we used a range of ingredients, including shortcrust pastry, custard, and a rainbow of fruit such as melon, pineapple, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, pears, and grapes. I was so pleased to see so many children being brave and trying every single type of fruit on their tarts. It was wonderful to see everyone enjoying such a healthy, varied treat that they had prepared all by themselves!
Year 6 - Spaghetti Truss Bridges
As part of our Year 6 DT project, the children have been learning about bridge structures and design. The children worked incredibly hard to plan, design and build their own truss bridges using spaghetti, carefully considering strength, stability and how to reinforce their structures. Throughout the project, they showed fantastic creativity, teamwork and problem-solving skills, testing and improving their designs as they went along.
Year 6 - Spaghetti Truss Bridges
Following on from our Year 6 DT bridge project, we are so proud to share the children’s final spaghetti truss bridge creations. After all their hard work, building and refining their structures, it was fantastic to see their finished bridges come to life. Each one was unique and showcased the children’s creativity, effort and understanding of strong design.
Friday Celebration Worship
What a fantastic week we’ve had in school, there is so much to celebrate! We are really looking forward to next week’s drama club's Heroes of Troy performance on Tuesday, and we are so proud of our choir who represented us beautifully at Let’s Go Sing. A special well done to Grace for her performance in Les Misérables, what an incredible achievement! A big thank you to our WOW Group for creating poo bag dispenser posters to help keep our local area clean, such a thoughtful and responsible project. We’ve also been busy improving our school environment, with tree planting in our grounds to begin creating our very own orchards. Year 4 have been absolute stars on their residential, showing excellent behaviour and representing the school brilliantly. Year 5 have also impressed us with how sensible and responsible they were during Bikeability. Thank you as well for all of the generous Easter egg donations, we really appreciate your support. This week’s values awards go to James in Reception, Ava and Tommy-Joe in Year 1, Harry in Year 2, all of Year 4, Darcy in Year 5, and Talia in Year 6, well done for consistently demonstrating our school values. A huge congratulations to our TT Rockstars certificate winners: Charlie D, Elijah, Freddie, Eddie, Emily, Olivia, Isaac, Joshua, Ella Grace, Alexis and Ivy, fantastic effort and dedication to your times tables practice! In our team values this week, Darwen Tower came 4th, Whitehall Park 3rd, River Darwen 2nd, and India Mill took 1st place, well done everyone! We are incredibly proud of all of our sporting achievements this week. Well done to Beau for achieving a superstar gymnastics certificate for walking on the big beam, and to Thea for earning her Stage 2 gymnastics certificate. Charlie G and Olivia were both awarded Player of the Week in football, while Charlie G was recognised for excellent defending. Ava achieved badges in Squirrels and Beavers and was also named Beaver of the Week, fantastic commitment! Congratulations to Eleanor, Olivia, Annie, Evie and Phoebe for earning multiple Rainbows certificates, and to Lydia, Skye and Chester for their swimming certificates. Phoebe also received a rosette in dancing, while Scarlett was named trainer of the week in netball. A special mention to Annabel, who not only completed a 500m swim for Cancer Research UK but also raised an incredible £341, what an amazing achievement! Callie performed brilliantly as Peter Pan in her recent show and received a certificate, and James achieved his red belt in Ju Jitsu, well done! Olivia also received a certificate for effort in gymnastics, great perseverance! Our swimming team performed brilliantly at the gala against Blackburn and Darwen schools. James won a bronze medal for backstroke, Jenson placed second in breaststroke and Desmond got two silvers, an amazing effort. Our cross country team also showed great determination competing against other local schools, well done to everyone involved. Well done to Year 2 and Year 5 for achieving the best attendance this week, fantastic effort! Looking ahead, we have lots of exciting events coming up including the FOSB Easter Egg Bingo on Tuesday, the Rocksteady concert on Wednesday, our Heroes of Troy performance after school, Hop, Skip and Jump for East Lancashire Hospice, our Easter Service on Thursday, and a special visit from Spring Chicken. A reminder that we break up early at 2.00pm on Thursday. We finished our worship with lovely prayers from Darcy and Charlie D, thank you both for such a thoughtful contribution. What a wonderful week, well done everyone!
Year 5 - Bikeability
Braving freezing winds and bitter hail, Year 5 spent Wednesday developing their cycling skills with the assistance of the instructors from Bikeability. They worked towards their Level 1 certificate and also displayed their skills in listening and team work. I was so impressed by their resilience and commitment working in such challenging conditions.
Year 2 - DT Preparing and sampling food
In Year 2, we prepared some healthy foods by chopping, spreading and grating. We then tried the foods to see which combinations we will select to make our healthy wraps.