Latest News
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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NSPCC Number Day
Mon 05 Feb 2024We had great fun celebrating NSPCC Number Day and had lots of creative children making their own number outfits. The children had a busy day of maths, maths, maths! Thankyou for your contributions to the NSPCC.
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Equality Badge Success!
Mon 29 Jan 2024We are very proud of everyone in school this morning as we have achieved our Race Equality Badge and our Religion and Beliefs Equality Badge. During the accreditation visit, Mr Anwar said he was 'blown away' with the children's knowledge and understanding of other faiths and religions, as well as their knowledge of inequality throughout history and their understanding of how this can change with respect and tolerance in the future.
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NISCU Worship
Wed 06 Dec 2023We had a lovely morning with Debbie and Abi from NISCU. They led us in a Christmas assembly looking at party planning and the surprising and humble way God introduced His Son to us at Christmas. Afterwards they shared Nativity Nursery rhymes with EYFS and Key Stage 1, a special Christmas dance with Beech class and an exploration of Matthew and Luke's gospel accounts with Willow class, understanding what the Bible actually says and what has become part of the Christmas tradition.
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Advent Toy Service
Sun 03 Dec 2023We had a lovely Advent Toy Service in Church yesterday led by the children, followed by a visit from Naomi from the Salvation Army today to share thanks to children and families for such generous toy donations. The Salvation Army, Blackpool, have had requests for over 2000 children this year, so all our wonderful gifts will certainly bring joy to many children Thank you.
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ArtsMark Success
Thu 02 Nov 2023We are delighted to have achieved our ArtsMark Silver Award today.
The assessors had this to say about school;
Your Statement of Commitment and Statement of Impact have been assessed and we’re pleased to share this feedback from our assessors with you:
'Despite the limitations of Covid you worked imaginatively to develop your original plan which prioritised two main themes. First, continuing professional development to embed quality staff development and curriculum design and second, working on ways of delivering the curriculum to develop more creative children and young people. You are open about the extent to which Covid impacted your journey. Lockdowns were imposed soon after your Development Day. So progress may have been slowed by this. But it was not stopped. You drew in the expertise of external partners, from the local music service, to parents with arts skills who could help run after school clubs. So by drawing on connections and working through the arts in collaborative ways you have changed the atmosphere and ethos for young people who are energised by their arts participation and have a renewed enthusiasm for school. SImultaneously you have invested in CPD and training. Working with Blue Moose Dance Company, Lancashire Music Service and the CPD element within Kapow has all contributed to a boost in teacher confidence around use of the arts in learning. It feels that you have reached a point of convergence, where use of external arts partners, the growth in positive attitudes among learners and the development of new skills and confidence in teachers is now beginning to interweave and help you begin the next phase of your development. To take further steps it may be helpful to consider how teacher confidence can translate into arts-rich practice: how does teaching the arts, and aiming for more creative young people, manifest day to day in your curriculum and your classrooms? What will your signature pedagogies be? And how will these reflect the values of your school and your ambitions for learners longer term?'
Congratulations on your Artsmark Silver Award!
Huge thanks to Mrs Shields who works tirelessly alongside the staff to provide the children with so many different Arts experiences.
Go to our curriculum page to see examples of our art in school.
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Macmillan Coffee Afternoon
Wed 11 Oct 2023Thank you for all your support at our Macmillan Coffee Afternoon. It was lovely to see so many families join us. We raised £251 for this wonderful charity. Thank you for all the lovely cake donations too.
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House Captains
Fri 06 Oct 2023Congratulations to our new house captains – Bebe and George for the Red Pandas, Keelan and Jasmine for the Blue Koalas, and Harry and Summer for the Green Sea Turtles. We know they will carry out their duties with responsibility and pride.
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Kindness Week
Fri 06 Oct 2023We thanked the children and parents for their donations towards NSPCC Childline for Kindness Week. The children looked wonderful in their rainbow colours and shared their acts of kindness in worship.
Particular thanks went to Logan who created a worry box to help his friends in class, to Isla who is doing ‘100 skips a day in October' challenge to raise awareness of cancer, to Ronnie who kindly brought in sunflowers for each one of his class mates and Harriet who baked biscuits for her friends. What kind, caring children we have in school! Thankyou
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NISCU Worship
Tue 03 Oct 2023Debbie and Abi from NISCU led us in worship this morning, reminding us to be whole hearted in all that we do.
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Lego Club
Tue 03 Oct 2023We were busy making vehicles in Lego Club yesterday.