Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (SMSC): Blog items
Year 6 - Fire Service Road Safety Visit
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 8:36am
Year 6 had a visit from Blackpool Fire Service, who talked to the children about road safety. This tied in nicely with our school Road Safety Week. We discussed how to travel safely by foot, on a bike and in a car - especially important for the Year 6 children who will be starting high school in September. The Fire Service also taught the children about fire safety. Thanks to Luke and Chris for talking to the children.
Date: 10th Jan 2024 @ 9:31pm
As part of our PSHE learning this week, Year 2 have focused on Road Safety and in particular, staying safe when crossing the road. Firstly, we looked at different images and spotted safe and unsafe behaviours. Some of the safe behaviours were holding hands with an adult, stopping and looking both ways and using zebra crossings. Some of the unsafe behaviours we spotted were playing with balls at the side of the road, playing on mobile phones and crossing between parked cars. We then worked in small groups to sort images into safe or unsafe road crossing scenarios.
Year 2- Where in the world am I?
Date: 10th Jan 2024 @ 5:06pm
Today, Year Two explored the key question 'Where in the world am I?' for the beginning of our Geography unit Continents and Oceans. We found our School on Google Earth and discussed what we could see before zooming out to discuss the Grange Park area. We continued to zoom out to find the town we are in (Blackpool), the county (Lancashire), country (England, United Kingdom), the continent (Europe) and finally the hemisphere (Northern hemisphere). We had great fun exploring where we are in the world.
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 1:36pm
Acorn class have had a great week exploring the Christmas festivities.
Christmas theme tuff trays, fake snow and sensory stories topped off with a great Christmas party and meeting Santa.
Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 10:11am
This week Reception had their Christmas Party.
They had fun dancing, playing musical statues, musical bumps and pass the parcel. Everyone took turns and clapped the winners.
After the games we had some party food and then we were visited by a very special guest- Father Christmas! He had brought presents for everyone because they had all been good this year.
Merry Christmas to you all!
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 4:25pm
This afternoon Year 2 enjoyed their party. We did lots of dancing, ate delicious snack, played games including musical bumps, pass the parcel and pin the nose on Rudolph as well as having a special visit from the man himself- Santa!
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 2:36pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed our Christmas party. We played games, ate party food and even had a visit from Santa!!
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 12:19pm
Over the past week the children have been learning about the story off first Christmas and why Christmas is an important time of year for Christians. We have been retelling the story in our own words at the story telling. We have also been practicing our nativty and learning our songs. We enjoyed performing to the other children in school and can wait to perform for our families and friends.
"Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem" Isla
"There was no room so they went into a stable" Esmai
"Jesus was born in the stable" George
"The angels told the shepherds to go to see Jesus" Oliver
"The kings brought some presents; gold, frankinsence and myrrh"
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 11:58am
On Friday the children in Reception enjoyed taking parting in our interhouse competition organised by the Sports Council 'The Elf Olympics. The children worked in their house teams to complete a range of festive games including team relays races, a bauble and spoon race and dress the snowman. The children had a great time working together to earn point for their houses Chepstow, Bathurst, Rodwell and Elston. Well done everyone!
Reception Christmas Jumper Day
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 9:46pm
Today the children in schoool were invited by our school council to wear their Christmas Jumpers. Pupils donated £1 towards our chosen charity 'Brian House' . During Christmas Jumper Day the children enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner including turkey, pigs in blanket and lots of delicious veggies. The children listened to Christmas songs, pulled crackers with their friends and toasted to the festivities. What a super day everyone had!
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 2:54pm
Today we took part in the Elf Olympics where we played lots of games to try and win points for our house. These will be added to our total house points that we win via dojos for going above and beyond!
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 6:57pm
What a lovely community event we attended this evening - the Walking Nativity. The choir performed two songs and played a part in acting out the Christmas story with our friends from Christ the King ⭐🎶
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 9:49am
Today we had our Christmas jumper day in school. We all looked fabulous! We also enjoyed a christmas dinner with our friends. It was great fun pulling the crackers and telling the jokes.
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 4:58pm
Year 1 are all looking forward to enjoying the Christmas activities around school over the next couple of weeks! Today, we had lots of fun on Christmas jumper day and enjoyed our delicious Christmas lunch!
Year 2- Christmas Jumper/Christmas Dinner Day
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 4:31pm
Today, alongside the whole school we enjoyed our annual Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper day. We all looked fabulous in our Christmas jumpers and enjoyed our festive dinner including Turkey and all the trimmings followed by a dessert of cake. It was delicious and we all enjoyed celebrating Christmas together!
Reception- Christmas Is On It's Way!
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 7:49pm
The decorations are up, the tree is dressed and presents are wrapped! it's all happening in Reception this week.
Children have been working together, sharing ideas and using their critical thinking skills to get into the spiirit of Christmas. They have been using their fine motor skills to place baubles, tinsel and beads on the Christmas tree in the home corner and they have been measuring and cutting wrapping paper to wrap Christmas presents for each other.
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 1:16pm
We always ensure that the resources we have in nursery are enganging and stimulate the children's imagination. Using open ended resources allows chidren the time to think about what they would like to do and how they would like to use the reosurces. It is also encourages the chidlren to work together and build positive realtionships. They always come up with super ideas and it's a pleasure to watch their play unfold.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 7:49am
In dance this half term we have been looking at the ceremonial war dance 'The Haka'. We have discussed the significance of the dance and how it is used by the All Blacks New Zealand rugby team to challenge their opponents. We then took the steps of the dance and learned them over the past couple of weeks. We have performed the dance in unison and cannon - our final lesson will be to challenge the other Year 6 class.
Date: 1st Dec 2023 @ 9:00am
Today we welcomed Bailey and her owner Vincent to our classroom for the first time. Bailey's Book Club in Year 2 is such a huge success and we are lucky enough to have a little time with her every Wednesday. The children enjoy watching her owner, Vincent throwing the ball to Bailey outside our classroom. A few of the children gave Bailey a treat and even brushed her fur, which they got so excited about.
Year 4- Laurel's Reading Champions
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 7:57pm
Well done to our new Reading Champions in Laurel. You have read three times this week and been on Reading Plus for half an hour. Hopefully there will be more pupils in Laurel that can earn their Reading Champion badges! Keep up the good work!
Enterprise Visit to Highfurlong
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 2:26pm
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 12:26pm
This week the children have been reading the story 'Oliver's Wood' which is all about an owl called Olliver who stays up late on day and discovers the sun. He is so excited that he wants to tell his friends hedgehog and badger but they are all asleep. The children have enjoyed retelling the story and finding out more information about nocuturnal animals. The children we lucky enought to meet a real life hedgehog Norris from Blackpool Hedgehog Rescue. The children learnt about how to care for a sick hedgehog, how they use their sense to find food and what they like to eat. We followed up our visit by creating our own hedgehogs at the creative table and writing about them.
"Hedgehogs use their nose to sniff out food" Mathew
"They eat worms, slugs, beetles and snails" Hunter
"Don't feed them milk it makes them poorly" Summer G
"Hedgehogs are nocturnal" Isaac
"They come out at night and sleep in the day" Levi
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 12:08pm
Reception have been talking about the Hindu and Sikh celebration of Divali 'The Festival of Light". We talked about why the celbration was iimportant to them and how they prepared to it and celebrated with their families. We looked at some tradition Skih clothing, maki diva lamps and painted rangoli patterns.
"They decroate their homes for Divali" Sahiti
"Diva lamps go in the windows" Sid
"The make rangoli patterns rto welconme people to their house" Esmai
"They have a special dinner with thei family" Elisha
"They watch fireworks at night" Kisha
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 8:12am
We had a visit from the fire brigade who discussed all the ways they help us. They taught us what to do if there was a fire and how we can keep ourselves safe. They set us a mission to see where our smoke alarms are and to test that they work with the help of an adult to ensure we keep safe.
Date: 28th Nov 2023 @ 9:01pm
During our RE sessions this half term, Year Two have been studying Christianity and what Christians mean when they say that Jesus is 'the light of the world'. We explored a Christingle and what each part represents before making our own Christingles. We then gathered together in the hall to light our Christingles and have a collective moment of reflection. We also sang the Christmas carols, 'Silent Night' and 'Do you hear what I hear?' whilst considering the meaning behing their lyrics.
