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A fantastic first week …

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We have had a fantastic first week and two days settling into school and exploring our new classroom. All the teachers in Astley Class have been very impressed by how grown up and sensible everyone has been. We have been learning new songs, playing instruments,…

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RECEPTION CLASS BLOG

As most people are aware of, Tuesday the 22nd June was sports day. To make it special, this was Reception class’ first ever sports day. This event started at 1:15pm as all the infant classes gathered together in the hall to march to the field. Then they did a fun warm up to get them prepared for…

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A trip to Blackpool zoo…

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We are feeling very lucky this week in Astley class! Our school kindly paid for us all to go to Blackpool Zoo,  so off we went to spot some African animals.

We had a fantastic day out despite it being incredibly hot, and all the children where beautifully behaved. We started the day at the Sea…

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Such a fun-filled week…

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Astley class have been incredibly busy this week, with lots going on! Firstly, in Literacy we have been using all the describing words we thought of last week and writing our own description of the lion from the book ‘We’re going on a lion hunt’. All the writing was fantastic, well done…

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WOW! What a wonderful week…

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WOW! What a wonderful week of beautiful weather we have had! We have very much enjoyed spending lots of time in our outdoor area, where it has been warm for a change, YAY!

In literacy this week we have been looking at describing words, in particular those that describe some of the wonderful…

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Africa…

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This week we have been getting ready for our Africa topic. We have begun by reading the story ‘We’re going on a Lion hunt’ everyone has really enjoyed reading the story and joining in with the parts that are familiar to them. Therefore to fit in with our story and topic we have turned our role…

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It’s a bugs life…

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What a truly wonderful time we have had in Astley Class this week! We have been treated to lots of exciting things and we are feeling very lucky! Firstly, this week we had the pleasure of welcoming John and Tracey (The Bug people) into to our classroom and they didn’t come alone, they brought…

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Flutter, flutter butterfly…

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What an exciting week we’ve had in Astley Class. We have had the pleasure of watching our tiny baby caterpillars grow fatter and fatter, build a cocoon then burst out as beautiful butterflies. On Friday we took our butterflies down to the garden of EDEN to release them into the wild, one of them…

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Caterpillars, welcome to our class!

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This week we have had the pleasure of welcoming 5 baby caterpillars into our class. They started off very small and we have seen them grow bigger and bigger each day. We have looked into the lifecycle of a butterfly and created our own showing each stage. We can’t wait to see the caterpillars…

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Building a Bug Hotel

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What a busy first week we have had! We went down to the garden of EDEN to hunt for some Minibeasts and find out where they like to live. Then we built our very own Bug Hotel in our outside area, we are hoping for lots of visitors!!

We also found time to visit church and look at and explore the…

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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