: Gallery
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 10:52pm
Today Year 2 enjoyed their Yoga session with Katie from South Ribble Sports Development.
We travelled by plane and then met cobras, camels, scorpians and even Cleopatra!
Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 9:37pm
Whilst the Year 6 boys learnt ablout Hutton School, the girls explored the themes of our novel Running Wild through freeze frames. Can you spot heroism? Force of nature? New beginnings?
A sports lesson and inspiration from GB Athlete and Bobsleigh Olympic medalist Joel Fearon
Date: 16th Sep 2022 @ 12:57am
Year Five enjoyed an athletics lesson with Joel Fearon. High energy, active, supportive encouragement and lots of fun!
Joel Fearon is an Olympic medalist who has excelled at elite level in athletics and bobsleigh, representing Great Britain on the world stage in both sports.
Joel won an Olympic bronze bobsleigh medal with John Jackson, Stu Benson and Bruce Tasker in Sochi in in 2014.
As well as winning the country's first Olympic bobsleigh medal since 1998, Joel can also claim a place in the history books as a sprinter: Britain's fastest man in 2016.
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 12:28pm
Our first Glock Rock lesson - we discovered singing and playing percussion is trickier than it looks!
Date: 14th Sep 2022 @ 5:13pm
Today we had an amazing visitor in our school - Joel Fearon.
In assembly he talked to the children about his achievements and how he needed courage and resilience to reach his goals.
We all enjoyed a PE lesson with Joel during the day.
Date: 12th Sep 2022 @ 10:51pm
What an exciting and unusual day!
Joe from Teach Rex, visited school today with Thomas the gorilla. We learnt about how his family was taken when he was a baby and how he had managed to survive in the Congo. The children learnt of the devastating impact of deforestation and how small changes they make can make a big difference. Thomas was very nervous to begin with but relaxed when he realised how much we cared and wanted to help him.
Take a look at some of the photos below to give you a taste of the day and support a conversation at home.
Date: 11th Sep 2022 @ 10:29pm
Our Big Question for this half term is: Where Are We?
Here we are enjoying an orienteering activity to find out what knowledge we currently have about the United Kingdom. We are looking forward to learning a lot more to develop our knowledge and understanding of where we are.
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 12:39pm
This week we have been learning all about the different ways that we can represent numbers. We have used lots of different resources to help us.
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 12:31pm
We have been looking at different maps to find features and places in our local area of Penwrotham.
Do you have any maps at home?
If you do, we would love to see them in class!
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 5:38pm
When the weather was hot earlier this week, we treated year 2 to a cooling foot spa while they worked!
We then carried out our Science experiment out in the shade and the breeze.
We tested to see which paper was the most absorbent.
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 4:40pm
In the Autumn term, we looked at the local history of Penwortham where we found out about how Penwortham has grown. We looked at some of the old buildings and what their original purposes had been. We found out about the old Motte and Bailey castle that stood on Penwortham Hill behind the church. We also looked at the war memorial. All of these aspects of Penwortham created lots of discussion and allowed us to explore our local community.
More recently, we have been studying Preston Market. We have compared primary sources of Preston Market from different eras. We have looked at its history and the changes made to celebrate its 50th birthday. We were lucky enough to have a visitor who had worked on the market, who was able to answer some of the children’s questions. The class have enjoyed both experiences and I'm sure would love to share all the interesting things they have learnt.
Maybe over the summer holidays, your children could take you to see and discuss the features of Preston Market or Penwortham in the present day.
Date: 20th Jul 2022 @ 11:33am
Nick Park grew up in Preston, Lancashire. As part of our Local History project work we created biographies about Nick Park. We learnt all about Nick Park and his back ground.
Local History Study - The Dick Kerr Ladies
Date: 19th Jul 2022 @ 11:46pm
We have loved learning about the Dick Kerr Ladies and were so pleased to meet Gail Newsham - the author of "In a League of their Own" and "Football's Forgotten Legends".
We learnt so much and were amazed by the story of this football team. Have a look at the photos to see some of the work we did. We even found out that two of the children in our class had relatives who played for the team.
We were greatly inspired by Gail's story of the ladies and indeed by Gail herself.
Date: 14th Jul 2022 @ 12:13pm
What a way to end Year 5 - a superb musical treat including 2 songs from our endangered instruments.
Athletics Event at Priory Academy
Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 4:44pm
Children from Year 3,4 and 6 represented school in an Athletics event at Priory Academy this week.
They did really well in all of their events including running, throwing and jumping.
They competed against other schools from the local area.
Well done everyone!
Local History Day - Learning about Preston Docks
Date: 13th Jul 2022 @ 12:38pm
We have had a great day learning all about the history of Preston Albert Edward Dock today!
We really enjoyed listening to our visiting hisotrian, Stephen, who told us all about how the docks were used a long time ago. He also talked to us about the banana boats and even about stowaways from the Carribbean!
Thank you Stephen for giving up your time to help us with our learning today!
Date: 6th Jul 2022 @ 4:05pm
We tested the properties of different materials.
Can you bend it?
Can you twist it?
Can you stretch it?
Can you squash it?
Date: 6th Jul 2022 @ 4:03pm
To get us in the mode for writing our own magic carpet ride recount we went on our own magic table ride in the classroom!
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 8:51pm
We have had an amazing day at our linking school, Yealand Primary. An exciting morning in the forest - hammering and printing with flowers, mud art, transient art, building dens and exploring the forest area - was then followed by a picnic lunch and some delicious and very brightly coloured ice-creams from the ice-cream van! Our afternoon was spent exploring the school outside areas where we played football; made a range of yummy mud pies and cakes in the mud kitchen; raced around on the wheeled trikes and played on the play equipment.
Mrs. Gaskell and I are immensely proud of our class today who immersed themselves in every activity, were an absolute pleasure and a real credit to our school. It was brilliant to see both schools playing and having fun together, we will definitely continue this partnership next year.
Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 5:18pm
As part of national Field Work Week, Y5 have been out in the school grounds to measure wind direction and wind speed. We are doing this to help us decide where the best place will be to fly the kites we are making in Design Technology and indeed whether we think they will fly at all!
Date: 28th Jun 2022 @ 5:15pm
........and we really did dance from the heart, staff and all pupils!
Date: 27th Jun 2022 @ 11:53am
Our vist from a kite expert - Miss Flint!
Date: 26th Jun 2022 @ 12:43pm
Miss Flint joined us to give us the history behind kites. She showed us some different examples and let us see what they are capable of (including extreme kite flying, kite buggying amd kite skateboarding).
She brought examples including the:
- Delta stunt kite
- Soft foil kite
- Flexi foil kite
- Revolution kite.
We were introduced to the techinical vocabulary including: spars, ripstop, leading edge, rigidity, frame and reinforcement.
Miss Flint advised us to think carefuly about material, size, shape, strength and weakpoints when we design and make our own kites.
Thank you for your time Miss Flint!
Date: 23rd Jun 2022 @ 2:49pm
Another hot day and some tired children- nearly everyone needed waking this morning!
Today's activities included:
The Giant Swing
Climbing wall
Orienteering
Capture the Flag
Splash!
Enjoy the photos - we will be home tomorrow with tired bodies and happy hearts.
Date: 22nd Jun 2022 @ 7:47pm
Let the 22nd June be forever known as the Night of the Big Water Fight! Of course it was the teachers who won...
So much fun and team work today. Our children and staff have shown so much support and resilience to tackle some really BIG challenges! Climbing the big pole and then standing up on a very small and wobbly space before jumping for the trapeze was the start of the day. Following this we enjoyed aeroball - (basketball on a trampoline) and this afternoon archery.
Enjoy today's photographs and a few videos.
