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14th November 2017   Today, we celebrated ‘Anti Bullying Week’! This year the theme is “We are all different but equal”. We discussed with the children what this meant and why it was important. During the week we will be talking to the children about bullying and what that term means to them, who they […]

Springfield held a special assembly today to mark Armistice Day.  As part of the special worship we spent some time refelcting and giving thanks to all the service men and women who have been killed in conflict, since the end of World War 1. Prior to this special worship, we supported the Royal British legion by selling

To celebrate National Poetry Day at Springfield, we invited a member of the School Library Service into school to share some of her favourite nonsense poems with us. We loved listening to the poems, watching her act them out and see her passion and enthusiasm for poetry. Each class then got a poem to learn before the

June 2017 To tie in with the General Elections and to understand how the democracy porcess works, all children in school were given a challenge of spending £500 on a project for and within the school grounds.  Teams of between 2 and 6 children were asked to think of an idea which would improve the

28th June 2017 On the 28th of June our very own choir travelled with the staff and children from Reedley Primary school to Preston Guild Hall to take part in ‘The Big Show’.  The Big show was an event organised by Lancashire music hub and brought together various artists, which also included professional mussicians. What made it

Thursday 22nd June 2017 Today three teams from Springfield attended a STEM primary celebration event at UTC in Burnley.  Our three teams were: Bright Lights of Springfield, Go! Go! Gruffalos and Fire Smashers In preparation for the day the children were involved in creating a product for one of the following levels/categories: Apprentice level 1-       

Choir Competition – ‘Last Choir Singing’ We were delighted when we got the opportunity to enter our school choir in the Last Choir Singing competition.  As the Last Choir Singing is Lancashire’s premier choir competition, the publicity for it was high. On the day, BBC Radio Lancashire, who is a media partner of Last Choir Singing as is Johnston Press

Thursday 9th February 2017 Today the children from Springfield Primary School, together with some of the children from Reedley Primary School joined 8000 children from schools in the North West region to take part in the Young Voices Concert, at the MEN arena in Manchester. As part of the Young Voices Choir, the children showcased the songs and

Sunday 8th January 2017 This evening the choir did us proud again by taking part in St Catherine’s Epiphany Carol Service.  They were joined by Burnley Alliance Band and did exceptionally well in raising money for Pendleside Hospice.  As ever our very own musical director John was on hand to support the children.  Well done to you

21st December 2016 What a lovely Christingle service at St Catherine’s today! Many thanks to all the children and the choir- you sang beautifully! Thank you also to Father Roger who reminded us all about the true meaning of Christmas and to all the parents and carers that attended.  

Tuesday 20th December Today the children in EYFS and KS1 took part in a  Christmas party experience.  At lunchtime the children enjoyed eating Christmas party food together after which they participated in lots of party games, whilst listening to Christmas music.   The afternoon was then topped off with the arrival of a very special visitor-

Friday 16th December 2016 What an exciting end to the week for the children. The children were in for a treat today as the whole school got the opportunity to attend Preston Guild Hall, to watch Jack and the Beanstalk.       The pantomime was a modern twist on a well known favourite with

Wednesday 14th December Yesterday our newly formed choir performed for the first time at St Catherine’s Church, and what a success this was! Since September, under the direction of our choir master John Garrett, aptly suppported by Mrs Lingard, the children at Springfield have met on a weekly basis to practice singing and performing together.

Wednesday 14th December 2016 Yesterday EYFS and KS1 perfomed their Nativity for the parents and families of Springfield, at St Catherine’s Church.   This is the first time that St Catherine’s has played host to our nativity story and as luck would have it, it was definitely the right choice, as over 170 family members attended. The

November 2016 We are pleased to announce that we have received our Silver School Games Mark.  Well done to Mr Brown and the children for continuing to raise the profile of Sport across school!

Thursday 20th October  Hogwarts were lucky enough to visit Unity College for a Flash Bang  science afternoon in their science lab with Mrs Oakley and two students in year 9. The children carried out 4 experiments with lots of help! The first one was watching the hydrogen rocket shoot into the air- the children were delighted

Wednesday 12th October 2016 Springfield school attended St Catherine’s Parish Church today for our annual Harvest Service, which was led by Father Roger.  In prepartion for the service the children, parenrs, staff and families sent in some harvest gifts to make up the food parcels.  In school the children also learnt about the importance of

Thursday 23rd June Our school was one of the lucky 30 from across Lancashire who took part in the Barney and Echo Internet Safety Roadshow at Blackburn Rovers FC on Thursday 23rd June.  We were joined by Lancashire Constabulary together with leading online safety experts from across the UK who led a number of interactive presentations.  The internet safety Roadshow will be at football clubs in towns and

Wednesday 25th May 2016 We were invited to take part inthe Primary Engineer Celebration Event.  The event took place at Burnley Football Club and was attended by more than 60 teams from across Burnley.  Our school sent two teams with their finished products, for the Keystage 1 and Keystage 2 category. Year 2 vehicles must

Wednesday 18th May We are happy to announce the appointment of Mrs Samaira Nasim to the position of Headteacher at Springfield.  Governors and staff welcome the decision that we now have a permanent head and the stability this brings to our school. [dg columns=”1″ ids=”6053″]

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

Come and read the article in the Burnley Express where Springfield raised over £300 for Pendleside Hospice with a sponsored, Easter themed ‘Bunny Hop’. Well done to all of the children and adults who took part.

The Springfield choir are proud to be in the Burnley Express this week. They put so much effort into learning lots of songs and performed them at the Phones4U Arena in Manchester.

The Springfield choir are proud to be in the Burnley Express this week. They put so much effort into learning lots of songs and performed them at the Phones4U Arena in Manchester.

Pendleside Hospice came to school with a big cheque to say say thank you to the choir for their carol singing over the Christmas period. Springfield raised £145 towards the charity! A big well done to all of the choir, Mrs Lingard and Miss Morley for all of their hard work.