Holy Week Reflections – A Special Journey Together
This week has been a truly meaningful and reflective time as we walked through Holy Week together. We spent time learning, creating, praying, and discovering new ways to deepen our understanding of Jesus’ love and sacrifice.
One of our favourite parts of the week was exploring the Sorrowful…
Holy Week and Beech Class Community Event
We’ve had a lovely Holy Week in school. We retold the events leading up to, and including, Jesus’ death and resurrection. It was lovely to see how knowledgeable the children were about this important time in the Church year.
On Tuesday, we took part in our Reconciliation service with…
Saplings Eid Celebration
This week we have been learning about other faiths. A number of our children have shared with us their knowledge about Ramadan and Eid. We have seen lots of photos and videos where our children shared how their family celebrated at the weekend. We learnt all about Ramadan and Eid talking about the…
Spring has sprung!
Spring has sprung and we have been making the most of it! We have been looking at the spring flowers coming out and learning about how they grow. We have started planting our seeds and look forward to getting the soil for the planters. As a part of the Healthy Heroes scheme we have been learning…
World book day 2026
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We travelled to the east for world book day this year to see Aladdin and shared with him his story with his magic lamp. We met the evil Jafar creating our own hats and thought about the good choices he could have made. After creating our own magic carpets we…
NSPCC Visit
We were delighted to welcome the NSPCC into school today. They delivered engaging and age‑appropriate workshops with Year 2, Year 5, and Year 6, all focused on staying safe and looking out for one another.
The sessions helped our pupils understand how to recognise unsafe situations, how to…
Saplings caring for the animals
We have had a lovely half term learning all about the animals of the world, different climates and about where some countries are. This week we have been bird watching this week, we didn’t see any flamingos, eagles or parrots but did see lots of other birds.
We have shared our learning about…
A wild week of caring
This week we have continued with our animal studies learning about how we care for our pets and other people who care for animals. We heard from the safari ranger about how he looks after the animals and created different animal prints from animals he saw through his binoculars. The vet told us…
Year 6 - First Aid & Borwick Hall
First Aid
As part of our HRSE curriculum, Year 6 have become confident young first aiders through learning the DR ABCD steps, practising CPR, and mastering basic bandaging skills. They showed real maturity on how to check for danger, respond to someone who may need help, keep airways…
Animals from warm climates
What a wonderful week we have had exploring the warmer climates of Africa and Australia and the animals they have. We learnt what it is like to be a safari ranger and what the job entails. We heard about endangered animals and thought how maybe we could help them. We loved hearing about the cheeky…
Visiting cold places
We have been learning all about the animals in the polar regions. We have had some very cold days where we have been able to think about what it would be like somewhere even colder than England. When looking at signs of winter here in Preston we wondered if it was the same in Antarctica. We…

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