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A date for your diary - 26th September will see the first Kearsley Scarecrow Festival. We'll be sending details (and an application form) home with all children next week. WE will making a scarecrow or two to display in the playground - what about YOU? Stay tuned......

Well done to this week's Handwriting superstar who worked really hard, without any help!  

We have started learning all about Katie Morag and where she lives on the Isle of Struay.  Did you know that the Isle of Struay is based on a real Island called Coll?  It is in the Inner Hebrides off the coast of Scotland.

We are going to be reading all about Katie Morag's adventures, we will…

This week we are learning about making arrays and then using them to help with our multiplication work.

This afternoon, after lots of preparations, Reception Class finally made it up the aisle and performed their wedding! There were lots of tears and smiles as the happy couple said "I do" in front of their 'families and friends'.

Over the past few days we have been busy working on creating some Batik artwork.  We had to create two designs and pick our favourite.  Once we had picked our favourite we traced over the lines on to fabric with wax.  We had to wait until the wax was dry so that we could use different dyes to…

After getting very messy when we first started painting we have made some aprons and covered the tables!

Our models are now starting to take shape...can you tell what we are making?

Last week we started painting our paper mache models.  We had lots of fun, but got rather messy!

Sitting in the office or on walkabout through school this morning I was treated to some wonderful singing (from soloists and chorus) as Mr Lee, our Music Teacher, ran through some of the songs in our forthcoming production of Oliver. The children sound better every week - looking forward to the…

We practise our evacuation procedures (fire drill) on a regular basis to ensure that in the event of a REAL fire the children know exactly what to do to stay safe.This morning all children (and staff and visitors) exited the building and were registered within two minutes (one minute 56 seconds to…

St Stephen's Cricket Team won the Kearsley and Little Lever tournament recently and at lunchtime today they set off to meet the other group winners from across Bolton in the Grand Finals. Good luck lads (and lass)! Stay tuned for further details.....

Today we explored multiplication facts. Our 2s, 5s and 10s. Mrs Faulkner posed the question "If we grouped our class into fives, how many groups of five would there be and how many left over?" We sorted ourselves into groups of 5 and then counted them, we had 6 groups of of 5 with one left over.…