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In Year 3 we have been learning all about rocks and soils! 

We learnt about the amazing Jurassic coast on the south coast of England, where you can take a walk through 250 million years!

Then we investigated different types of rocks to find out about their properties of hardness,…

In our Investigation Area we have a Perfume Making Workshop with items to help us develop our scientific language, help us explore and develop our fine motor skills.

We used a pestle and mortar to crush and grind the daffodils. We used pipettes to add and mix specially coloured water to our…

Today, we headed over to Our Lady's High School for our second session of PE and ICT or food technology. After taking her group to ICT on our last visit, today Miss Whitehead and her group enjoyed a food technology lesson. 

Firstly, in PE we started with another balancing activity, again…

As part of Science Week we have been busy investigating! Today we made predictions about what would happen to skittles when we added water. We did lots of talking and made wonderful observations that we have written for our science display.  

Science Week!

This week at St Annes we are celebrating science week. In recepton some of us did a weekend wildlife watch in our home environments! At school this week we have been making bird feeders made out of pipecleaners and cheerios. We are waiting and watching to see if the birds come to…

Thank you to all those who came to our Phonic Workshop. The children enjoyed the opportunity to show their phonic knowledge to you all.  

We started the sunny week off this week with a spelling test. After that, a coach arrived at half past nine to take us to Bridgewater hall. When we got there we watched the Silver Donkey performance until about ten past twelve. It was an incredible show, about a blind soldier who got help from…

Reception have been very busy planting. We have created the outline of a pot or bean house. Then with Mrs McIver or Mrs Hodson we planted beans or cress seads into a bag with cotton wool and then gave it some water to drink. We have put them all around our classroom to keep watching. we have…

This afternoon we got changed into our PE kits and headed to Our Lady's High School for 2 different lessons. Firstly, we all took part in a PE lesson. To warm up we balanced with one leg rested on the other knee. Some children lost their balance quickly but others like Weronika were standing until…

 Reception had lots of fun on World Book Day... 

In Elmer’s we had Alice in Wonderland, Dennis the Menace with Gnasher, a witch, Batman, Superman, lots of Elsa’s, Anna, a pirate and many more!

In the Gruffalo group we had some amazing characters too! We had lots of beautiful…

We all had a fantastic day in Year 1L dressing up as characters from our favourite books.  Can you tell who we were?

On Tuesday we had an AMAZING day finding out what life was like for a Victorian school child.

We learnt about Victorian punishments! Ouch!

Then we read from primers which were Victorian reading books and practised handwriting using a slate and stylus. It got really messy when we…