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Panthers Class have been cooking a traditional Nepalese thukpa this week as part of our unit 'Nepal and the Himalayas'. They tasted a traditional thukpa (a vegetable noodle soup) before designing their own. They had to choose appropriate vegetables and spices.

As part of their DT, they…

We have been sharing the book ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ and learning all about our ‘Growth Mindset’ 

The Catforth Lions have been getting to know each other and making new friends! 

Panthers Class have had a fantastic morning building as part of a lego workshop as part of our Science unit on forces. We made martian colonies, designing modules for living, working and exploration. We also learnt to use gears, pulleys and levers. Everyone was fantastically creative with their…

We LOVED celebrating Roald Dahl day.  In Jaguars classroom we focused on The Twits. We created a ‘pin the food on the beard’ game, made our own worm spaghetti inspired meals and created our own Roly Poly birds. 
 

Jaguars class really enjoyed our Stone Age~ Iron Age topic. We loved acting out the main events during these periods, learning about the famous Stone Henge, looking and different artefacts and most of all, meeting Stone Age Ben!

Panthers Class have been studying the Ancient Greeks and designed and created their own chitons. They investigated historical clothing, looking at primary sources, before designing their own. They had to measure and cut their fabric based on their own measurements, and then they sewed it using a…

We had a wonderful day in Lions class on Roald Dahl Day

Lions class had fun on Roald Dahl day, sharing the story of the Enormous Crocodile. Lots of us dressed up and we had some special visitors to our class - Mrs Harrison was a Roly Poly bird and Mrs Byrne-Fraser and Miss Cairns dressed up as…

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…