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Welcome to Reception Class at St Stephen's Primary School.

Miss Wild and Mrs Bostock are both incredibly excited to meet and greet you all once more into our Reception Class. Except this time you'll look very smart in your new uniforms and no doubt feel a mixture of emotions as you begin your…

Mr Townsend and Mrs Gregson would like to welcome you to Year 4 - we can't wait for all the learning adventures that lie ahead! 

On our last Forest School session of Reception we safely toasted marshmallows around a campfire and used our previous experiences and skills to build the best balancing beam we could together.

On our last Forest School session of Reception we safely toasted marshmallows around a campfire and used our previous experiences and skills to build the best balancing beam we could together.

Very, very well done!!! We are VERY PROUD of you!!! 

We have had a fantastic day at Smithills Farm to round off  our People Who Help Us topic.

First, we had a donkey ride. 
Next, was meeting the animals in Pets Corner.
We then went on a very bumpy tractor ride to see the animals on the hills and feed the donkeys.
Fourthly, we visited the new…

The children in Year Five have been invited to take part in a competition called Junior Masterchef  which has been organised by Kearsley Academy.

Only two children can be put forward to the next round.  Here we are tasting the children's entries before voting for our favourites.

The…

This week we competed in daily challenges including table tennis, daily mile, netball, penalty shootout and shot put.

Being inspired from our Post Man visit, we decided to write our own letters.

We chose who we wanted to address our letters to and then thought of something we really wanted to tell them.
We then used our Phonics knowledge to segment words and write the graphemes down. 
We popped them in an…

Our new topic is People Who Help Us.

This week we had a Postman come to visit who helped answer all our questions about mailing parcels, how letters go to different countries and what happens if you forget to put a stamp on your letter after you put it in the post box.

We then used this as…

Today our butterflies hatched out of their cocoons and began flying.

We have looked after our caterpillars for the last 3 weeks, watching them eat and grow.
We watched them spin themselves into a cocoons to begin the chrysalis stage of their life cycle.

We have learnt about their life…

Here we are investigating an irreversible change that involved a balloon, vinegar and bicarbonate of soda.  Why don't you ask me about it?