Image of Year 4 - Linking Schools Visit to St Matthew’s
12 Jun

Year 4 - Linking Schools Visit to St Matthew’s

Our Linking Schools project reached its final part on Monday with Year 4 visiting St Matthew’s C of E Primary in Blackburn. We had a fantastic day designing “together towns”, creating poetry about living well together and even joining an assembly with local author, Dan Worsley. We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about our new friends and sharing work throughout this year; it has helped us to realise our similarities and celebrate differences.

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12 Jun

Reception Father’s Day Outdoor Stay & Play

It was lovely for the children to have their special grown ups with them for an exciting outdoor stay and play. They loved playing football on the MUGA and showed some of the Dads how to use the outdoor gym! We would like to wish them all a very Happy Father’s Day for Sunday and a big thank you to everyone who attended.

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12 Jun

Year 5 - Literature Festival

Today, Year 5 had the exciting opportunity to attend the Darwen Literature Festival at Darwen Library. As part of the event, they took part in an inspiring author session led by the brilliant poet and performer Rappaman. The children were captivated by his energetic performance and powerful poetry, which explored themes like identity, creativity and resilience. They listened, laughed and even joined in with some of the rhythmic wordplay, leaving the session buzzing with ideas and inspiration. It was a fantastic celebration of language and the joy of reading and writing. A big thank you to the festival organisers and Rappaman for such a memorable experience!

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12 Jun

Amazing Attendance

We’re delighted to let you know that our school has been recognised not once, but twice in this year’s FFT National Attendance Awards. These awards celebrate the hard work and commitment of our staff, pupils, parents and carers in promoting excellent attendance and our school has stood out in both the autumn and spring terms of 2024/25. We are so proud that we are in the top 10% of schools nationally for our Spring term attendance! Well done everyone!

Image of Year 4 - The Children’s Literature Festival 2025
12 Jun

Year 4 - The Children’s Literature Festival 2025

On Tuesday, the Year 4 class walked to Darwen Library Theatre to take part in the Children’s Literature Festival. Their workshop was a session on developing rhyming patterns and creating poetry. It was delivered by Rappaman - a poet that does a lot of work with communities in the North West. The children had great fan creating rhymes and repeating tongue twisters. There was even a joke or two thrown in!

Image of Year 4 - Class Worship and Year of Prayer
12 Jun

Year 4 - Class Worship and Year of Prayer

Year 4's class worship this Wednesday was from Blackburn Dioceses' Worship Together. We heard the well-known story from the Old Testament, David the Giant Killer. We thought about this story in different ways - about trying hard and using critical thinking when tackling a huge problem. We finished our worship with our Year of Prayer for this week, I Spy prayers, in which children hid objects around the room for everyone to try their best to find. We prayed about not giving up and asked for God’s help so that we may persevere.

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12 Jun

Reception Maths - Number Track games

This week, Reception have been revisiting the order of numbers 1-10 and discussing how we know the position of each number. We said that each number increases by one more each time and we can use this to find any numbers which are missing. The children then took part in number track games with a partner where they had to roll the dice and move their counter the equal amount along the number track.

Image of Y4 English - The Mousehole Cat - Noun Phrases
12 Jun

Y4 English - The Mousehole Cat - Noun Phrases

As part of our new English unit, Year 4 have been reading ‘ The Mousehole Cat’. In today’s session we concentrated on identifying noun phrases. We looked at what Mowzer the cat ate for his meals on different days and then adapted this to what a dog would like to have instead. The children came up with some fantastic ideas which included baker brisket pie in a bed of mashed potatoes, spicy salami roasted on a burger bun and fillet steak fried in onion gravy.

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12 Jun

Year 6 Music

In music, Year 6 have started a singing unit. This week they discussed why we should warm our bodies and voices up before singing. The children then practised some of these warm ups before singing a selection of songs as a class.

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12 Jun

Year 6 English

Year 6 have been identifying the key features of a formal letter. They then linked this with their previous work on "Good Night, Mister Tom" and WWII to write a formal letter to parents, informing them that they would need to evacuate their children.

Image of Year 2 - Setting Descriptions
12 Jun

Year 2 - Setting Descriptions

This week, in year 2 have been engaged in exploring Aaron Becker's "Journey," a wordless picture book that encourages them to develop their own narratives through imagination. Today's lesson focused specifically on the book's enchanting woodland setting. Using their prior learning of using expanded noun phrases and incorporating similes, the children demonstrated significant effort and produced a collection of highly descriptive and engaging setting descriptions. The effort they put into their writing was evident in the quality of their work.

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12 Jun

Year 6 Debt Aware Money Skills Session

Year 6 completed module 6 of Money Matters, this week. This was all based around enterprise - a project or activity which is difficult, complicated or potentially risky. The children learned that an enterprising person is independent, positive, hard-working and resilient and looked at some famous examples. They also discussed what is involved in setting up your own business.