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Panthers Class have been learning about Peru and the Amazon Rainforest this week, focussing on the town of Puerto Maldonado and it's place within the Amazon Rainforest. We have located the rainforests of the world and studied the Amazon in more detail. We looked at the economy of the town and how…

Starting School

Mrs Byrne Fraser and Mrs Harrison are looking forward to welcoming our Catforth Lions tomorrow. We have been busy getting your classroom and garden ready. See you soon!

We've been taking part in really exciting project this half term! We have had two visits from David at the Lancashire Archives to learn about the history of our school. He came first of all to share maps had found to help us work out when Catforth School was founded! He then went back to the…

Panthers Class had a fantastic day out to Martin Mere this Friday! We started out by pond dipping, and we found lots of mini beasts. Some of our favourites were ramshorn snails and phantom midge larva, although the baby newts kept eating these while we were watching them! 

We then went for a…

Tigers class have been adding words an images to creat postcards from Victorians on holiday. They created pictures using Green-screen that they have saved and uploaded to their postcards. The children used Purple Mash to create the postcards. 

The children looked at a mystery suitcase, photographs and artefacts to make deductions, predictions and to share prior knowledge about living and holidaying in Victorian times. 
 

Panthers Class have been planting trees which were donated to our school by the Woodland Trust! We learnt how to care for saplings, and the importance of keeping the soil moist in the early stages. We learnt about the depth of hole that is necessary for the trees, and that they would need a stick…

As part of National Science Week, we are learning about our circulatory system. Today, we focusses on the heart and learnt about how it is structure. To help our understanding, we built plastercine models!

Panthers Class have been learning about Cambodia this week, and looking at life on the Tonle Sap Lake. Thousands of people live on the lake, either in floating houses or in houses on stilts. 

We looked at solutions for flooding from all over the world and designed our own houses that would keep…

After learning about Mary Anning, the children produced some beautiful textile art that was inspired by fossils. Firstly they investigated the shapes of fossils by creating images from natural objects. They then used pencil to create lines to mimic fossil shapes. Their textile pieces were created…

This week in Panthers Class, we have been studying rivers. We started by looking at the Water Cycle by making mini terrariums, before looking at the features rivers. We studied the impact of dams and the human geography of rivers, as well as investigating the course of the River Ribble.

For our…