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• Testing Friction in Rivington

  Wed 25 Jan 2023

  We thoroughly enjoyed investigating friction in Rivington. We tested lots of different surfaces to see which stopped our car the soonest, meaning it had the most friction. Which surface do you think had the most or least friction? 🏎

  

• Y5 Science - testing materials

  Tue 24 Jan 2023

  Olympus and Mont Blanc used different methods to test materials and decide on their properties including if permeable, magnetic, hard (the scientific definition!) and flexible. Lots of discussion ensued when they used a scale of measurement. Olympus even got to test the absorbency of different nappies! Mont Blanc will have their chance this week.

  

• Place Value in Y1 Ash class

  Mon 23 Jan 2023

  We love Maths in Ash class!
   

  We use concrete resources daily to help us develop and explore our number sense. We are now very confident when counting, ordering and comparing numbers to 20 and some of us have even decided to experiment with numbers much, much greater! 

  

• Year 3/4 Sportshall Athletics Heat

  Fri 20 Jan 2023

  Our Year 3 and 4 Sportshall Athletics team were absolutely raring to go in the first heat of the competition at Holy Cross. After some very close calls, lots of effort and remarkable teamwork, we came away with a cracking second place! We need to wait and see whether we’ve made it to the finals, but we are certainly hopeful after these brilliant performances. Well done, Team! 🥈

  

• Reception- w/c 16.01.23

  Fri 20 Jan 2023 Miss Blackwell

  We have been looking at stories by the author Oliver Jeffers. The children have loved exploring space and winter activities in the classroom. The children have enjoyed playing board games and making staircases to show one more with the cubes. We also learnt how to weave paper and with this skill made winter hats. 

  

• Music - using glockenspiels in Y2 Elm

  Thu 19 Jan 2023 Miss Pearson

  We had a great, fun afternoon in our music lesson today. Our glockenspiel skills really improved as we were looking to sing and play along with our class song “Rainbows”. 
   

  Everyone is beginning to understand musical vocabulary as well and we had a great time looking at the score and singing along .

  

• PE Chorley Sports Partnership in Elm Class Y2

  Thu 19 Jan 2023 Miss Pearson

  We had a wonderful morning today when Chorley Sports Partnership came in to look at how good we are with running, jumping and throwing.  We had a great time and can’t wait to see them all again. 
   

  

• Chorley Music Centre visitor

  Thu 19 Jan 2023 Mrs Bullock

  Key Stage 2 had a visitor today, Gemma came to talk to us all about Chorley Music Centre. It is based at Southland’s high school in Chorley. She invited us all to come and have a go at lots of different groups and classes; choir, drumming, ukulele, band. Contact  

  via Facebook or email or text on the poster on the Wednesday Weekly. Alternatively, turn up for a taster session on Monday nights.

  

• Reception coding

  Tue 10 Jan 2023 Miss Blackwell

  Reception loved having a visit from Ian who showed us how to use the ‘Safari coding’ app. The children had to choose and select the right part of the path to direct them to their home. 

  

• Classification in Year 6

  Mon 09 Jan 2023 Miss Burns

  In Year 6, we began our Classification unit by looking at how Liquorice Allsorts could be classified into different groups. Children had to work in a group to identify shared characteristics in order to accurately put them into the correct groups.