We can’t wait to see our fabulous little learners ?

We can’t wait to see our fabulous little learners ? don’t forget to apply your sunlotion and bring your water bottles ☀️

Hello! I’ve missed you all!

Hello @StFinbarsSch! I’ve missed you all! All of the big learners are looking forward to seeing our little learners Monday morning; bright-eyed & bushy-tailed! You just might need to slap on some sunscreen tomorrow too! It could be a sunny & hot day! Have a great sleep everyone.

Your child will have received their reading book and reading records this week?

Your child will have received their reading book and reading records this week? please listen to your child read as often as possible and sign their record card.

We gather together today to celebrate our new school year

We gather together today to celebrate our new school year. Thank you to our Parents/Carers for joining our school mass

Today we welcome Tony Peek to our school…

Today we welcome @tonypeek to our school, we can’t wait to write some poetry together. Poetry books will be on sale at the end of our school day ?

A stunning rainbow above our school?

What a beautiful start to our day, a stunning rainbow above our school?

How lucky are we to spend our morning with Beck Adlington ?

How lucky are we to spend our morning with @BeckAdlington ? learning about the importance of water safety and why we should learn to swim ?‍♀️?‍♂️ thank you for sharing your experiences, medals and inspiring us to work hard and reach for the stars

We gather together today to celebrate CAFOD Family Fast Day

We gather together today to celebrate CAFOD Family Fast Day

Thank you so much @Biggreenbooks for supporting our school?

Thank you so much @Biggreenbooks for supporting our school and raising a fantastic amount of money for us to spend on library books ? you will have to watch the clip to see the final amount ? Mrs Flynn can’t wait to start ordering books ?

NSPCC number day

Learning about the NSPCC and using Real life maths.

We used our math’s skills to research the best value for in school and out of school treats for after SATs. We discussed the price of a coach, taking public transport or the possibility of being able to walk.

We now understand how expensive it actually is for 30 children to go out for the day.

Year Six – collective worship

Week 1 – Sharing the mercy of God with others

Today, we planned and lead our collective worship focusing on sharing Mercy with others. This week we have asked everyone to show compassion, empathy and kindness with other.

We reflected about what the world is like with mercy and what it could be like if we didn’t have mercy

School Council met with Mrs Conley.

Today the school council have held a meeting with Mrs J P Conley to discuss their idea of having a ‘No pen’ day. They discussed how they feel we could have a day with no writing and focus on using other skills such as speaking, art and computing to complete the learning across the day.

Mrs J P Conley asked us questions about what learning would be taking place and considered our idea. She agreed there was a way for learning to still take place with lessons having activities that record down in other ways. For example, using our computing skills in English to type out our sentences and paragraphs.

On 23rd April, we will be having a ‘No pen’ day with no writing!

Chick Visit

Today, we got to care for our school chicks. We all had a turn of holding the chicks.

Chicks arrived in Poppy Class today!

Year 2 had a great day with our fluffy week old chicks, we fed them, cleaned them and stroked them.

Easter Service

We gathered together today for our Easter Service.

Easter activities

Today, we had an Easter assembly, an Easter Bonnet parade and an Easter Concert! Wow, what a busy day, but we had lots of fun!

No Pen Day!

Today we are going to be completing our learning all day without picking up a pen and writing! Orchid class have kicked off the day with grammar and using their learning to go on a quest of spelling, punctuation and grammar.

No Pen Day

Daffodil class have enjoy completing lots of practical activities today. We started our day with an active P.E.lesson and then completed some fantastic measuring activities including mass and capacity. In history, we ordered a time line and completed a past and present sorting activity.

No Pen Day

This week we had a ‘no pen’ day, we still completed all our lessons and had some fun along the way! We learned about telling the time, about the Stone Age and we planted some pea seeds.

No pen day in Rose Class

Year 6 loved their No pen day experience, with lots of practical and computer based activities. From creating our plans for English on our chrome books to using multi-link cubes in maths to explore volume. It is to be continued after SATs.

Raising money for CAFOD in Rose class

During lent, Year 6 have been taking part in a guest the amount of Easter Chocolate in the jar. Our amount raised for CAFOD has yet to be counted up but I’m proud to reveal that our winner with a guess of 96 chocolates.

Science in year 4

Today, year 4 have moved in to a new science topic all about electricity. We started off looking at what electricity is and how static electricity is created. Then we investigated how we can create it ourselves to pick up salt and pepper with a ruler. You can see the fun we had in the pictures and watch the video of how we created the static electricity!

Road Safety Assembly

Today all classes from reception to year 6 attended an assembly , which was run by the Bobby Colleran Trust. The children spent time considering how to be safe when near roads and how to safely behave when crossing over. You can see some images from the assemblies here.

VE Day celebration

Today we had a fantastic street party at lunch time. We made some VE Day crowns and we flew our paper Spitfires.

SATS week begins …

Everyone came in nice and early and enjoyed some breakfast pastries and some chill time on their chrome books. SPAG and spelling completed. Well done everyone!

Prize Giving Assembly

We gather together today to celebrate a year of achievements, progress and success.

12.09.25 English – Using drama to depict a story

Today, we used drama to retell the story of The Night Gardener. Some of us were trees, another person was William and some of us were people from Grimlock Lane. This will help us write lovely story setting descriptions.

16.09.25 – Maths – Place Value

Today, we were making two digit numbers and discovering how many tens and how many ones were in each number. We were able to make these using base ten.

Year Six 2025-2026

Welcome back to our new Year Six’s. Everyone is looking so smart in their new uniforms. It’s lovely too see everyone back.

19.09.25 – RE – Acting out a baptism.

Today, we used drama to act out the various stages of Baptism. We had godParents/Carers, water, a priest and a congregation.

The children were able to retell the various aspects of a baptism ceremony.

Reading milkshakes in Year 6

Year 6 have been challenged with reading a certain about of pages each week in their guided read and reading for pleasure books. If they achieve that total they will either received a milkshake or free time. If they read with their Parents/Carers, they also receive a biscuit. Here are our first winners.

06.10.25 – Science – identifying the components of blood and their roles

During this lesson, we invested the components and their roles within the blood. Each group was faced with four patients – someone who was fighting an infection; someone who has a cut; someone who has been exercising and someone who is healthy.

Looking at the platelets, white blood cell, red bloods and plasma each group managed to work out who was who.

07.10.25- Science- Reversible changes

In Science, we have been looking at properties and changes of materials. We carried out an investigation to see how water can change state. Year 5 discovered that water is an example of a reversible change, because it can be reversed by adding or removing heat.

08.10.25 – RE – The awe and wonder of creation

Today, we had a lovely time in our school garden, looking at the vibrant features of God’s creation and His beautiful creatures which he made. We looked at the fish and their stripes, we looked at the delicate features on leaves and we talked about how each plant is so unique.

09.10.25 -English- Henry’s Freedom Box

In English, we did some Drama to help us remember the story we are learning about. Year 5 have read ‘Henry’s Freedom Box’ and today they dramatised the story of him escaping in the box. This is going to help them later on, when they write an autobiography on Henry.

13.10.25 – RE – Knowing that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Today, we created a collage showing how each one of us is unique and that God loves us all. We learned how God made us all different and we each have varied personalities.

16.10.25 – English – Having some fun as the Night Gardener

Someone in our class decided to dress up as the Night Gardener. I wonder who it is? He did a great job sneaking around without anyone seeing him cutting the trees!

20.10.25 – RE – Being Called

Another hot-seating activity, today we became Andrew when he was chosen by Jesus to become one of Jesus disciples. Drama helps us to understand the scriptures better.

23.10.25 -Science- The magic glove experiment

In Science we carried out an investigation to look at irreversible changes. Year 5 mixed bicarbonate of soda with vinegar and placed a glove over the top. They watched the hand come alive, as the bicarbonate of soda and vinegar mixed, creating carbon dioxide. We were all very excited with the results!

04.11.25 – Maths – Adding 2 two digit numbers

Today, we were demonstrating how we can add 2 two digit numbers using various methods, like column and using pictorial representation. Everyone really enjoyed doing this today and absolutely smashed it!

06.11.25 -RE- Abraham and Sarah

During our RE lesson we heard about Abraham and Sarah being blessed with a child named Isaac after showing their strong faith in the Lord. After hearing the scripture we used freeze frames to show our understanding of the story and the emotion of the people involved.

07.11.25 – Art – Create street art with meaning

our art topic this term has been street art. We looked at perspective and scaling up. We couldn’t decorate a wall around school as we might get into a little bit of trouble. But watch this space to see if you see our artwork around school soon.

22.09.25 – School Buddy Training

Our School Buddies have now been elected and every class has two buddies who they can turn to for support and help during playtimes. To help the school buddies feel ready in their new role they have under taken some training with Miss Summers. They worked on being approachable and what that means. They also developed an understanding of looking out for unkind behaviour on he playground and how to support children and when to inform and adult.

10.10.25 -Science- Ice cream investigation

You may have heard about our exciting lesson which included making ice-cream in class! We were exploring how the change in state takes place from liquid to solid using freezing. We took milk, vanilla essence and sugar and out them in a small freezer bag. Then we put the bag inside a bugger bag filled with ice and salt. Then shook it for 10 minutes to make the state change and then we tasted our ice cream!

13.10.25 -School Council Training

A new exciting initiative is being bought into life at St Finbar’s to support school council and children’s oracy skills. Miss Summers held our training during the school council meeting to show us how to use the Smart School Councils tool. Our meetings will now focus around one key question and will be held every week in class.

04.11.25 -Music- Honing our skills

As we move into our second half term, we our continuing our music lessons and trying to improve the sounds we practised in autumn 1. We are enjoying learning jingle bells in preparation for our Christmas music concert.

05.11.25 -Class Meeting – Vegetarian options for lunch

This week we held our first Smart school council class discussion and we discussed the need for vegetarian options on our lunch menu and why it’s important. Then we held discussions in groups about ideas for new lunch options which are vegetarian.

10.11.25 -RSHE- Odd Sock day

Today we launched Anti-bullying week by participating in odd sock day. We attended an assembly and Miss Summers introduced our theme for this year’s anti-bullying week, which is ‘Power for good’. Then we had fun learning the Andy and the Odd socks song called ‘Power for good’.

11.11.25 – Collective worship – remembrance

The week before Remembrance Day we created this gorgeous poppy wreath that is unique and special to remember those who died for our freedom at war.

12.11.25 -RSHE- NSPCC visit

Today, we had a lovely visit from Buddy and a lady from NSPCC. We discussed how we can speak up if something is wrong and who are the safe adults to talk to.

12.11.25 – PSHE – NSPCC workshop

We had a workshop based on speaking out and staying safe with the help of Buddy the speech bubble. Year 6 learnt lots of ways that they can get support if they need it. It was a very useful and informative workshop and the children were all very engaged. They even got a sticker at the end for their hard work and involvement!

13.11.25 – RSHE – Anti-bullying

Today, we discussed about how to be an upstander -someone who does not tolerate bullying. We then designed an Anti-bullying superhero! Look at their lovely designs.

10.11.25 -PSHE- Anti-Bullying

Today Orchid class have completed their first lesson on Anti- Bullying and have learnt about the different roles that people can take on during a bullying scenario. We discussed how it is not just the ringleader who gives power to bullying and how we can make sure to use our power for good.

14.11.25 – PSHE – Anti-Bullying week

For our second lesson we recapped the roles in bullying and acted out different scenarios. We then discussed as a class how we could solve each situation and take the power away from the ringleader and assistant. To link our work to computing we the designed storyboard creating our own bullying situation and showing how to solve it.

17.11.25 – School Council – Recycling

This week the school council have begun to develop certain initiatives that will be rolled out across school before the Christmas break. These include, recycling poster to highlight what goes into the food wast bins, slides for an assembly on recycling and designing a suggestions box. We have used our meeting time to start these projects and will continue them next week.

17.11.25 – Reading – Librarians

During their lunchtime club today the school librarians have begun to create bookmarks. The idea behind this is to have bookmarks for children to take and use while using the library. Take a look at some of the ones we have competed below.

17.11.25 – Computing – After-school club

Today was our first computing after-school club and we were very excited to use the Micro:bits for the first time. We began by learning about how coding is needed to program a device as it is a set of instructions for it to follow. Then we programmed the Micro:bit to turn into a name tag by displaying our names repeatedly.

17.11.25- Maths- Cubed Numbers

In Maths today, Year 5 explored cubed numbers in a really hands-on way. We used equipment to build actual cubes, which helped us see how a number multiplies by itself three times. The children were very engaged and worked brilliantly together to spot patterns and make connections. It was a fun, practical lesson that supported their understanding and there were lots of proud moments!

19.11.25 -History – Impact of Christopher Columbus’ journeys

Year 2 have a loved learning about Christopher Columbus this half term. Today, we looked at the impact that Columbus made on the spread of religion, the improvements of shipping and the trading of foods. We were able to work in pairs to recall our facts.

20.11.25 -Maths- Making shapes using area

Today we have been using given areas to create rectangles, squares and rectilinear shapes. We have drawn them and fond different shapes with the same area.

20.11.25 – RSHE – Road safety

Today, we talked about how to be safe while crossing the road. We discussed about Stop, Look and Listen.

24.11.2025 – Health and Self Care – Toothbrushing Workshop

Early Years had a special visitor today. Christopher the Crocodile came to talk to us about brushing our teeth. We heard a story all about going to the dentist and had a practise of our own toothbrushing technique .

24.11.25 – KS1 Art and Craft Club – decorating a Christmas gift

Today we had a painting session in Art and Craft Club. We were painting autumn and winter scenes on a notebook, which the children can give as a gift to someone. The children really enjoyed painting with cotton buds to create leaves!

24.11.25 -Computing- After school club

This week we coded the Micro:bits to begin to show flashing hearts. To do it we used the forever loop and added in the led heart and a blank one to make it flash between blank and heart. Once we had downloaded the code onto the device we then had beating hearts!

25.11.25 – PSHE – what is Parliament and what does it do?

This week is UK parliament week and today we watched a short video about how parliament works. We discussed about how laws are made and the process before it gets passed. We then took a virtual tour of Westminster and coloured some diagrams of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

26.11.25 – PSHE – UK parliament week

This week we have celebrated UK parliament week and we focused on what a MP is and how they use their voice to represent their constituency. Then we look at who our local mp was and researched Kim Johnson. To finish our learning we completed an MP profile about her.

27.11.25 – PSHE – Houses of Parliament

Today we have looked at The Houses of Parliament, we have taken a virtual tour and had some great discussions about what we can see. We then discussed what happened at The Houses of Parliament and what types of discussions, decisions and laws are made.

27.11.25 – Maths – Subtracting

We have been working so hard to understand subtraction by crossing out. We have also focused on writing our calculation sentences. Look at our amazing independent work.

27.11.25 – Maths – Multiplication fact families

Today we have been practising our 6 times tables while learning an out making arrays. When we were confident with the arrays we linked this to how we can use it to find the fact family. This meant we could find two multiplication and two division facts that linked together.

29.11.25 – Science – Tooth Decay

Over the last two science lessons we have been learning about the digestive system and we started with teeth. The teeth start the process by chewing and swallowing our food and drink. We then set up an investigation to look at how different liquids can cause problems for our teeth and which ones are better for the enamel. We observed over the week how the shells of the egg changed.

3.12.25 – PE – Moving like animals

Today in PE, year 2 had to listen to music and learn to move to to it like safari animals. They needed to crawl like lions etc. They came up with some of the their own ideas. Well done.

3.12.25 – Computing – Drawing Shapes

Daffodil class have been practising their shape drawing skills on our Chrome Books. We have been using our imagination to create different images using shapes and colours. Our fabulous learners continued to access the challenge and drew their own shape monsters.

4.12.25 Maths – Number Lines

Daffodil class have been busy practising using number lines to help subtract numbers within 10.

4.12.25 – Computing – What is a geoboard?

We are learning to use our imagination to create illustrations with shapes. Today we have used geoboards to create different pictures.

4.3.12 – Singing Club – Christmas Carols and songs at Tesco.

What a lovely afternoon we had with Year 2 and Year 4 singing club today. We went to Tesco and sang really well. There were lots of people to see us and we raised money for school as well.

04.12.25- DT- Beam and Arch bridges

In DT, we have been looking at bridges and their structures. To help us understand the difference between a beam bridge and an arch bridge, we had a go at making both types physically. Year 5 then investigated to see which bridge could hold more weight. We discovered that the structure of the arch bridge was able to carry more weight.

05.12.25 -English- Freeze frames

During English today we were looking at writing in the report style for a newspaper. Before we completed the writing activity we worked in groups to act out and freeze in place to represent what was happening in the news report we had read.

5.12.25 – R.E. Reverse Advent

Daffodil class have completed our reverse advent. Thank you to our families for donating food to those in need.

5.12.25 – RE- Father Silviu Advent Visit

Today Year 1 and 2 came together to hear Father Silviu speaking about Advent. He spoke about the meaning of the Advent candles and the children asked lots of questions.

5.12.25 – R.E. Father Silviu visit

Thank you to Father Silviu for visiting Daffodil and Poppy class and sharing the wonderful time of Advent and the importance of hope, peace, joy and love within our world.

05.12.25 -RE- Father Silviu Visit

Today year 3 and 4 were visited by Farther Silviu to discuss the meaning of advent and how it is celebrated by Christians at this time of year. The children also asked their own questions about advent.