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23 March 2025

Careers Week and Circus School?

Well,

It has been one of the best half terms we have had.

We are partnering up with our friends at Whitechapel Primary School for Longridge Strictly Come Dancing. Yes, that is correct…we are now taking our children ballroom dancing and I’m sure they will love it. Beacon Class children will…

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6 March 2025

Goosnargh Showtime Concert

A heartfelt thank you to every parent, family member and child who attended the concert last Saturday. The children in Glee Club brought so much joy to the audiences for the Festival Queen Selection.

Thank you Mrs. Davies for leading our Glee Club every week. So much preparation and hard work…

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26 February 2025

From one great week to the next…

It really is ‘one week to the next’ when nearly every week has been a themed week! Yes, before breaking up, we experienced a Big Bird Watch, National Storytelling Week, Safety Week, Mental Health and Well-being Week and many other exciting things you can think of…

We thank our amazing…

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24 January 2025

A great start to the year…and an MP visit…

Welcome back to a very happy new school year. 

We hope that you have all had a peaceful Christmas and we wish you all well for the new year ahead.

Hope is very much the theme around school because we are in a Jubilee Year and there will be many wonderful things going on in school to…

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10 December 2024

Lovely Robins and Advent Sparkle

We are well into our very special Advent Season and we still have so much to do!

Last week, our Glee Club children wowed us all with their ‘Sparkle and Shine’ and it was so lovely to see the children bring so much joy to children, staff, families and friends. Well done children and thank you so…

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22 November 2024

I’m so sorry-I thought you were being a meet…

The day started at 8.00am without a pair of gloves on Horns Lane with a sheep (which I have now been told is something called a tup) slipping around the road on the ice having escaped from a field. Obviously, it was my first important job of the day to get the sheep off the road and back into the…

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18 October 2024

Space Week, Bright Futures, canal boats and the arts…

As we come to the end of this half term, we have many things to celebrate.

We have had many sporting championships, a focus on careers, a canal boat trip, a harvest concert to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Research, a food bank collection, KS2 parliament assembly with St.Mary’s and a super…

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6 October 2024

Season of Creation, Pigeon release and French Day.

Last week, Mr Blair came to school with racing pigeons! Mr Blair, our chair of governors, also looks after racing pigeons in the school he works in. Our children enjoyed learning facts about racing pigeons before holding them and releasing them to fly back home…

French Day was great and the…

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26 September 2024

Welcome back!

Hello all and a very warm welcome back to another school year!

Our new starters are having a great time and all of the children who have moved into new year groups are wowing us with their amazing attitudes towards learning.

It is lovely to see how well the children have settled into their…

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26 September 2024

Small school mini skills competition

Children from St.Francis and St.Mary’s had a great time at the Preston competition. It is lovely to work together and enjoy competitive sports.

We are absolutely delighted to say that St.Francis’ won and a fantastic 5th place to St.Mary’s! Well done children!

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