Willow Class - Year 3 & Year 4

The children have been making story maps of their stories and have been looking at texts to collect story openers (adverbials and prepositions), verbs, adjectives and interesting words for 'said'. They have added their vocabulary to their story maps to make their stories exciting.

We were lucky enough to have another local resident, Mrs Hogarth, come into school to talk to us about the old Preesall salt mines. She talked to us about how the salt mines worked and the uses of salt and then we went to explore the area where the mines existed and the old branch lines for the…

After a rainy morning, we set out from school to find the area of the old Preesall salt mines.

We saw the branch line which took salt from the mines to the main line where it was distributed across the UK and the World.

It was very muddy!

We looked for the old pumps in the fields. These were used to pump water in to dissolve the salt.

Wow! This is the pit which was created when the land subsided.

We have been looking at the structures of folk tales and the children have been using 'Boxed-up' planning to innovate and create their own tales based on an existing structure. They have been making characters to act out; re-telling their story for their class mates.

We learnt Knott End Cafe usd to be a train station and The Pilling Pig (a train that squealed like a pig) ran from there to Preesall, Pilling and Garstang.

As part of our geography/history walk on 'Our Local Area' Willow Class completed a trail walk from Knott End through Preesall taking photographs and finding out information on points of interest alomg the way. Our journey began with a talk from local resident, Mr Taylor at Knott End Cafe (which we…

The children learnt that the Round House, pictures, used to be a toll house where people would pay a toll (money) for using the roads in Preesall.