Year 6 English - Writing
In English, the children have moved on to planning their own writing. They have innovated the original text of “Goodnight Mister Tom”, looking at the plot, characters and vocabulary. They have made a plan to support them with their writing.
Year 6 Class Worship
During class worship this week, Year 6 listened to an extract from the Bible about John’s vision of heaven and what the future holds. This extract describes a peace-filled world that is joyful and without any pain. Bishop Philip discussed the extract further and explained that it meant that we can feel hope for the future. Worship ended with the children joining in with a prayer.
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Year 3- Year of Prayer-Thanking God for his love for us
This week for Year of Prayer, Year 3 went to the peace garden. They imagined the ground was lava and only 'love hearts' were safe to touch. Hopping between these hearts, they thanked God for his love, exemplified by the beauty of creation surrounding them the flowers, the gentle breeze, and the warmth of the sun all testaments to His care. They also acknowledged His love in providing them with family, friends, and the gift of each new day, a constant reminder of His presence.
Year 6 Gaelic Football
During this week’s Gaelic football session, the children built on the skills they learned last week, for example the hand pass and hook kick, to play proper team matches. It was a lot of fun!
Year 6 Maths
This week, year 6 have begun a new topic on algebra. As an introduction, they have been looking at “Function Machines” - the input, function and ultimate output. They moved on to looking at using the inverse if part of the calculation was missing and also tackled questions with more than one input/output.
Year 3- Food Technology-Developing Cutting and Peeling Skills
Over two lessons, Year 3 chefs have been building their confidence in essential food preparation skills. They worked in a carousel-style rotation, moving between different stations to practice a range of techniques. At one table, they focused on chopping, while another group worked on peeling. A third table group practised the skill of grating, allowing them to explore different textures and refine their fine motor skills. Using their developed skills, the children designed their puff pastry tarts, selecting from a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables. They also explored the nutritional benefits of different colours in food and discussed how their ingredient choices contribute to a balanced diet. In the next lesson, they will evaluate their creations, reflecting on taste, texture, presentation, and the overall success of their recipes.
Year 5 - Gaelic Football
Today, Year 5 had an exciting session playing Gaelic football! They developed their passing, catching and teamwork skills while learning the unique rules of the game. The children showed great enthusiasm and determination, adapting quickly to the fast-paced nature of Gaelic football. It was fantastic to see their confidence grow throughout the session. Well done, Year 5!
Year of Prayer and Singing Worship
This morning in our Collective Worship we took part in the year of prayer for this week, which was a prayer about emotions. We discussed with our partner all the different emoji emotions we could see and then named them. We then prayed together for people that we might know in our school or family that might be feeling some of those different emotions at the minute or those who might not be feeling very well. We then had different classes leading the singing and actions for our favourite Easter hymns and songs. What a joyous and uplifting start to the week!
The Little Craft Club
This week at The Little Craft Club, they celebrated St Patrick’s day and had lots of fun together making Irish themed crafts.
Reception: Muddy Monday
The children in Reception walked 3.5km each this week to contribute further to our Big Lent Walk in aid of CAFOD. They walked to Whitehall Park and continued with their outdoor learning. This week the children found pine cones, climbed trees and found minibeasts. They also enjoyed creating dens and roleplaying around a camp fire!
Mad Science After School Club- Slime Time-The Science Behind the Goo!
Today, our young scientists had an exciting, hands-on adventure in the world of Mad Science Slime! The children explored the science of polymers while creating their own colourful, stretchy, and squishy slime. Each child chose their favourite colour, mixing and experimenting like real chemists to bring their slimy creations to life. The children put their slime to the test in our Mad Science Slime Olympics, stretching, bouncing, and squishing their creations to see whose slime was the stretchiest, stickiest, and most creative.
Friday Celebration Worship
Today, we started our celebration worship by signing the trinity and reflecting on another amazing week in school. This week, we have had fabulous week celebrating British Science Week. Thank you to Miss Kachwalla and our science ambassadors for all of the effort they have put into organising all of the exciting investigations they have planned and delivered. We also said a huge thank you to everyone for supporting ‘THE BIG LENT WALK.’ So far, we have now hit an amazing 325km and raised £89. Thank you for helping us to make a difference to the lives of those who aren’t as fortunate as us. Please continue to let either Mrs Wilkinson or Mrs Ham know if you have walked anywhere and send photos if you can. This week, we have also started some amazing work in our classes and enjoyed a collective worship about Easter, enjoyed a great variety of after school clubs such as Craft Club led by Fred and Pearl, Cross Country, Mad Science, Choir, Performing Arts and Gymnastics clubs led by Edstart and our amazing choir sang at the ‘Let’s Go Sing’ concert in Blackpool. A huge thank you to Mrs Govan for leading the choir, Mrs Wilkinson for supporting the event and our fabulous choir for singing their hearts out and representing our school wonderfully well. We then congratulated this week’s individual value award winners. Well done to Cassius, Thomas and Seb in EYFS and KS1 and Finley, Ivy, Summer and Ruby in KS2 for working extremely hard across the curriculum and demonstrating a positive attitude to learning and always showing our Barny’s 4Bs (being ready, respectful, kind and safe). Furthermore, we congratulated our Reception and Year 3 class for being our attendance winners this week with 99.6% and 98.3% attendance and River Darwen as our value award winners this week with 314 points. We then moved on to congratulating our out of school sports award winners. Well done to Minnie for getting the squirrel for amazing behaviour, Eleanor and Olivia for achieving plentiful badges and certificates at Rainbows, Maggie for attending Rainbows for two years and again achieving lots of badges and certificates, Charlie for achieving 10m butterfly, Ava for being awarded a gold medal in her dance and gaining her Squirrels badge, Olivia for achieving the Captain’s Band and Player of the Match during her recent football match for both scoring and assisting goals, Peyton for coming an amazing 3rd place in her recent sparring competition at kickboxing, Rosie for making her promise at Brownies, Thea for being a super gymnast, Annabel for achieving Star of the Week in dance, Finn for coming 2nd place in his recent sparring competition at kickboxing and Evie, Alayna and Arabelle for working hard at Rothwell Arts. Evie showed perseverance in achieving a cartwheel, Alayna showed perseverance in achieving a handstand and Arabelle for demonstrating a bridge. To end our worship, Mrs Ham reminded us that next Friday 21st is ‘Rock Your Socks’ for World Down Syndrome Day. Then, we had a performance from our fantastic choir singing ‘Roar.’ We wish you all a lovely and restful weekend.