Friday 8th April 2016 Today there was much excitement at Springfield as the children and staff celebrated the Queen’s impending 90th birthday. All the children came into school dressed in red, white and blue and took part in lots of learning related to the Queen and the Royal Family. At lunchtime the whole school was […]
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Friday 18th March Yesterday Year 5 attended a ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ campaign held at BFC. The day started with a stadium tour of Turf Moor where the children learnt about the history of Burnley Football club. After that, the children attended a workshop aimed at educating them about homophobia, transphobia and biphobia. They
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Friday 18th March 2016 Wow what an exciting day! To mark British Science Week all the children at Springfield took part in a Science day. The teachers planned their own class investigations around the theme of flight. Some classes made helicopters whilst others make balloon rockets. Time was spent in the morning coming up with questions
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Wednesday 30th March 2016 Today the whole of Springfield school attended an Easter Service at St Catherines Church. The Service was led by Father Roger with readings by four of our own children.​ In the service Father Roger reminded us all about one of the most significant events in the Christian calendar- Easter. The service concluded with prayers
Tuesday 2nd February 2016 Across school today the children took part in a special space themed assembly. the teachers planned a series of engaging learning tasks linked to the topic of Space. To round off what was an exciting day, at 2pm, all the children got the opportunity to listen to Tim Peake, through a
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Tuesday 1st March 2016 What excitement and anticipation there was waiting for the big day. Lots of rehearsals to prepare, but finally the big day arrived. The children and staff set off at 12.00 heading for Manchester and the MEN arena where we would be joined by nearly eight thousand other children. After a
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Tuesday 17th March 2016 Today Springfield hosted a special themed day- Digging up the Past. As part of this they either learnt about the Romans, Saxons or Vikings during the morning session. To bring their learning to life, in the afternoon, the Arty-fact theatre company visited to put on a special performance called ‘Let’s Dig It’. Brief outline…
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Thursday 17th March Today five year 5 pupils were one of six teams from local schools invited to University Technical College (UTC) for the day to participate in an exciting STEM competition. On arrival, the children were given a strict criteria to follow as the task, which was to design an educational toy to sell at market. As
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