Blog by Lucinda Croston

Today we took advantage of the sunshine and completed our shadow investigation. We wanted to answer the question, “How do our shadows change throughout the day.” We all wrote our predictions and then went outside to trace around the shape of our partner’s shadow 3 times throughout the day.…

This week, we are taking part in Monster Kickabout. Monster Kickabout is a nationwide Primary School football initiative from Sports Direct and Nike, created to encourage more kids to take up football. 

The children performed their bee assembly yesterday and I was extremely proud of them. They have worked so hard and couldn’t have done it better. Thank you to parents for helping the children learn their lines so well. Well done Beech Class! 

Today, we were treated to a wet felt workshop. W used the Great Barrier Reef to inspire our pieces and created some wonderful under the sea wet felt creations. We were really pleased with how they turned out. 

Today we were very lucky to have Shane Hegarty visit us to talk about his new book, The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams. He also gave us some tips and tricks to help our writing skills. Afterwards we felt inspired by his book and wrote our own impossible ice cream flavours and what magical powers…

Today BYGPAW came in to do some dance, visual arts and percussion workshops. We had SO much fun! First we danced with Danny, we all learned some new moves and it looked amazing. We then made some orangutan masks out of cars, they look brilliant. After that we played drums and it made a lot of…

This afternoon we had an Indian dancing workshop. The children had such fun and learned some great moves, they all did so well. 

Today we had our first session of Cricket with Danny from Fylde Coast Cricket. We had such a great time and the children learned some new skills. 

Yesterday we had our spelling bee and all children did extremely well. The words were tricky and it was fierce competition. We had 12 finalists today who all did amazingly! It was an extremely close competition. Well done to everyone.

We’ve had a great first day as part of our Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
This morning, we planted a Jubilee tree with the whole school and sang our special tree planting song. 
This afternoon, we completed our leg in the Spar Lancashire School Games Baton Relay. We accepted the baton from…

This weekend, Violet took part in a one mile race with 200 children under the age of 15. Running against boys and girls and some much older children, Violet came 5th out of 200. She recorded an impressive time of 5:59. Well done! What an achievement. 

Today we had a very special visitor. Amy from the Bee Centre came to visit us and she brought some extra special guests, honeybees! 
We had a look at the bees in the hive and Amy talked to us about how to identify a wasp and a bee. 
we learned lots of new facts.