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G7 Speaker's Conference

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Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Our own MP and Speaker of the House of Commons is to welcome seven of the world's most important politicians to Chorley for the annual G7 Speakers' conference.

Traditionally held in the local area of the host Speaker, the conference will take place on 17-19 September 2021,…

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A Sacramental Week-End

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A Sacramental Week-End

Congratulations to our First Holy Communion children in Birkacre Class.

This week end the children received the Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist. The children all behaved well, with reverence and devotion. They were a credit to our school and to their…

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Did those feet walk upon England’s mountains green?

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Did those feet walk upon England’s mountains green? Well on Friday ours did. We spent the day at the Lake District Visitor Centre at Brockholes. Thankfully the rain held off which made it 2 out of 3 pleasant days for Mrs Crowther’s trips to the Lakes.

We had a brilliant time learning more about…

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This week Astley class went on a school trip to Martin Mere ....

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This week Astley class went on a school trip to Martin Mere. Over the past few weeks we have been learning all about Minibeasts so we decided to go to Martin Mere to put all our knowledge to good use and find some Minibeasts, and to find out even more about them

So, our trip started with coach…

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Dragons Den comes to Heapey Class

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Dragons Den comes to Heapey Class

 

Heapey Class have planned, pitched and advertised their inventions and what can I say, they are just amazing! The children came up with their own ideas for an amazing invention that will help us in everyday life. They came up with some amazing ideas…

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As quiet as church mice ....

This week we’ve had to be as quiet as church mice while the Year Six children took their SATs tests. We’ve spent the week learning a really important life skill – adding and subtracting money. There’s no way, when we’re older, that we are going to be short changed!

In PE we also had loads of…

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“Cliff collapses and falls into the sea…. Read all about it!”

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“Cliff collapses and falls into the sea…. Read all about it!”

 

This week the children have turned into reporters/journalists and reported on many incidents and accidents. They used green screen technology on the Ipads to record their news reports as they became Anchormen for the day.…

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May is the month of Mary

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May is the month of Mary

Congratulations to Our First Holy Communion children who took part in the crowning of Our Lady at mass on Sunday morning. The children all behaved with reverence, and presented their flowers in a prayerful manner. They were all a credit to their families and we were all…

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Fly little butterflies, fly, fly, fly

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Fly little butterflies, fly, fly, fly

This week our caterpillars fully transformed into beautiful butterflies, it was amazing watching them emerge from their chrysalis and flutter around their net whilst we gave them flowers and apples to eat. As much as we loved having our butterflies in class…

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Blooming Marvellous

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Blooming Marvellous

Way back in October we planted some Red Riding Hood tulips. Little did we know how amazing they would turn out? As you can see they are ‘blooming marvellous’! Our sunflower seeds have also germinated so we replanted them and are looking forward to seeing how they turn out.…

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Two Trips in One Week!

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Two Trips in One Week!

 

This week we went on two trips…both of them were field trips which is a trip where you study geography.  The first one was to Formby Point National Trust Nature reserve where we studied sand dune erosion and deposition. After a cold start on the beach, we soon…

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Short but busy...

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Short but busy. That’s what this week has been. Even though we have had two days off this week we have managed to fit in the work of all five days. We were supposed to take a little jaunt into town last week but the weather soon out a stop to that. Thankfully this week the sun has finally come out…

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St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
Cedar Road
Chorley
PR6 0JF
Tel: 01257 265998
Fax: 01257 233107
Email: head@st-josephs-chorley.lancs.sch.uk