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St Francis' Catholic Primary School
Horns Lane, Goosnargh, PR3 2FJ.

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      • THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT
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      • SHARING A SHELL
      • THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN
      • ROOM ON THE BROOM
      • WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
      • WINNIE IN SPACE
      • WINNIE THE WITCH
    • STORY TIME WITH MR MCGILL
      • BARRY THE FISH WITH FINGERS
      • BARRY AND THE HAIRY SCARY MONSTER
      • GORDON
      • SUPERTATO
      • SUPERTATO AND EVIL PEA
      • THE HIGHWAY RAT
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    • Hold On – The Only Way Is Up!
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Latest News

What have I missed out?!

What a super time we are having this hal…

Well done choir!

What a super evening we had last Friday.…

Last Family Mass of the year!

Dear all,…

It’s all go! A curriculum extravaganza!

What a very busy week we have had. Monda…

Last Choir Singing competition

Well done team St.Francis’ for going thr…

CAFOD club new friends

On Monday, we had a great time on our vi…

Dan Worsley author visit

We have had a super day with Dan and we…

VR videos, minibeasts, World Book Day, Ash Wednesday and more!

What a busy time we are having!…

Bobble hats, gymnasts, aliens, a rescue mission and a schnauzer…

This time of year is always a lovely tim…

St. Francis’ Hill Chapel in the Catholic Voice

Dear friends and families,…

Joy…

I have always liked the word 'joy' and,…

Spaces left for new Reception starters 2022

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Space Week, snails and survival…

Space week and survival...…

Sports Success…well done children!

Well done to our Year 3 and 4 children,…

Creative community cohesion and a busy week…

What a lovely Saturday we had together!…

Animal Care Visit

What a lovely time the children had meet…

Longridge Environment Group success

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Together again…with instruments, voices and a chicken swing?

Welcome back!…

WELCOME BACK – SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

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JULY NEWLETTER

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Writing

Writing

Multimodal Writing

We want children to enjoy writing as much as possible. Our approach to writing is creative and it enables children to produce high quality pieces of writing in a cross curricular way. We love to link our writing projects to art and D.T. The children just keep adding the pages with masking tape, treasure tags or split pins. Have a look at some of our pictures below…

Here, we made toad a new waistcoat, wrote alternative verse to the duck’s ditty, wrote to the local MP about recycling and sent our poems to an author. We wrote our own Titanic flashbacks, spider poems and much more!

We teach English explicitly every morning but we love to explore other genres in other topics and lessons. The children all have an ‘exciting writing’ bookmark. We use these in all lessons so the children know what their individual targets are and can be reminded when needed; this greatly supports their personalised learning. The targets change and evolve all the time as they are achieved and we move on. Teachers write targets for improvement on the individual laminated bookmarks and so do friends-not leaving out the children themselves, who are trained to appraise their own work against clear success criteria. Writing takes the form of pop up books, shape books and lap books.

World Book Day

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Exciting Writing…and it really is!

 

 

Speaking and Listening

Reading and writing are a feature of most lessons. We place great emphasis on children becoming confident speakers and use every opportunity to develop children’s speaking and listening skills through giving them ownership and purpose of tasks and starting drama activities such as freeze framing, hot seating and role play from Reception class onward.

Our children speak in public, take part in productions and show visitors around school. The children are used to performing in concerts, which are exceptional, and they have a huge talent for performing arts. We have a professional sound system with head microphones and three quarters of the school plays an instrument.

We seize every opportunity to develop children’s speaking and listening skills.

We love to perform in assemblies. Have a look at our Oliver pictures below-it was an incredible start to our Friday morning assembly!

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CLICK THE ABOVE LINK TO READ ALL ABOUT OUR CREATIVE APPROACH TO ENGLISH IN

AUTUMN 2018 NATE MAGAZINE!

 

Latest Posts

  • What have I missed out?! 29th June 2022
  • Well done choir! 29th June 2022
  • Last Family Mass of the year! 29th June 2022
  • This week’s Newsletter! 3rd May 2022
  • It’s all go! A curriculum extravaganza! 11th March 2022

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  • Home
  • ABOUT US
    ▼
    • Mission Statement
    • VISION, VALUES AND AIMS
    • Our School
    • Contact
    • Catholic Life at St. Francis’
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • Meet the Staff
    • Prospectus
    • Parish Links
    • Ofsted
    • Privacy Notices
    • After School Club
    • British Values
  • ACCOUNTABILITY and KEY INFORMATION
    ▼
    • POLICIES
    • PARENT INFORMATION
      ▼
      • Holidays & Term Dates
      • PTFA
      • Parent Questionnaire
    • SCHOOL INFORMATION
      ▼
      • REMOTE LEARNING OFFER
      • Financial Benchmarking
      • Pupil Premium
      • School Day
      • School Dinners
      • School Uniform
    • Governors
      ▼
      • St. Francis’ Governors
    • Ofsted
    • CONTACT FORM
    • Admissions and Prospectus
    • Complaints
    • Exam & Assessment Results
    • Financial Benchmarking
    • Attendance and Working Together
    • What do parents and children think?
  • NEWS
    ▼
    • Newsletters
    • Headteacher’s Blog
    • Parish Newsletters
  • CLASS PAGES
    ▼
    • PRE-SCHOOL
      ▼
      • The Land of Pure Imagination
      • About our Nursery and Pre-School
      • Meet the Team
      • Prospectus
      • Gallery
      • Things you need
    • Pendle – Reception Class
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
    • Parlick – Year 1&2
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
    • Fairsnape – Year 3/4
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and home learning
    • Beacon – Year 5/6
      ▼
      • Welcome and Meet the Team
      • Gallery and Class Tour
      • Curriculum Learning Overviews and Booklets
      • Homework and Home Learning
  • Curriculum
    ▼
    • Whole School Curriculum Overview
    • Curriculum Progression Maps
    • Maths Progression Maps
    • Curriculum Leaders
    • CURRICULUM OVERVIEWS
      ▼
      • YEAR 1&2 CYCLE A
      • YEAR 1&2 CYCLE B
      • YEAR 3&4 CYCLE A
      • YEAR 3&4 CYCLE B
      • YEAR 5&6 CYCLE A
      • YEAR 5&6 CYCLE B
    • RE CURRICULUM CYCLES
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • English
      ▼
      • Writing
      • Reading
        ▼
        • Reading Resources
    • Phonics
      ▼
      • Phonics and Reading Schemes
    • Maths
      ▼
      • Maths Progression Maps
    • Science
      ▼
      • Working Scientifically Progression Map
    • History
    • Geography
    • Art and Design
    • DT
    • Music
    • Computing
    • PSHE/BV/HRSE Combined Overview
      ▼
      • HRSE/RSE
    • PE
    • MFL
  • SAFEGUARDING and WELL-BEING
    ▼
    • Safeguarding
    • Early Help
    • WELL-BEING
    • Childrens’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
    • Online Safety
      ▼
      • Online Safety Newsletters
        ▼
        • Online Safety Newsletter July
        • January Online Safety Newsletter
        • February Online Safety Newsletter
    • COVID-19 INFORMATION
      ▼
      • REMOTE LEARNING OFFER
      • COVID-19 CATCH-UP FUNDING
      • COVID-19 POWERPOINT REPORT
  • Sports
    ▼
    • Sports Funding
    • Sports Premium
    • Sports News
  • SEND
    ▼
    • SEND
    • ACCESSIBILITY PLAN
    • FIND NEWSLETTERS
  • OUT-OF-THE-BOX!
    ▼
    • UFA: University of the First Age
    • CAFOD Club
      ▼
      • CAFOD KIDS
    • Rabbit Kingdoms and Cluckingdom Palace!
    • The Land of Pure Imagination
    • Tower Wood
    • ST. FRANCIS CLUBS
    • TRIPS AND VISITORS
    • BBC North West- our TV debut!
    • CHILDREN’S QUESTIONNAIRES AND VOICE
    • GLEE CLUB
  • KID’S ZONE
    ▼
    • SCHOOL COUNCIL
    • ECO-COUNCIL
    • WHAT MIGHT THE FUTURE HOLD?
    • WEBSITES FOR ME
    • SCHOOL MAGAZINE
    • CHILDREN’S BLOGS
      ▼
      • BEACON CLASS BLOGS
    • Gardening
    • Choir
  • Here to Keep You Smiling!
    ▼
    • STORY TIME WITH MISS DEAKIN
      ▼
      • BOB AND THE MOONTREE MYSTERY
      • NORMAN THE SLUG
      • MERMAID
      • HANDA’S HEN
      • MISS. DEAKIN’S BLOOPERS
      • THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT
      • THE GRUFFALO
      • SHARING A SHELL
      • THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN
      • ROOM ON THE BROOM
      • WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
      • WINNIE IN SPACE
      • WINNIE THE WITCH
    • STORY TIME WITH MR MCGILL
      ▼
      • BARRY THE FISH WITH FINGERS
      • BARRY AND THE HAIRY SCARY MONSTER
      • GORDON
      • SUPERTATO
      • SUPERTATO AND EVIL PEA
      • THE HIGHWAY RAT
    • ST.FRANCIS TEAM – ELECTRIC DREAMS!
    • Hold On – The Only Way Is Up!
  • Faith and Religious Education
    ▼
    • SYNOD SURVEY
    • RE Information and Resources
    • RE Inspection Section 48
    • Catholic Life at St. Francis’
    • Prayer and Liturgy
    • CAFOD KIDS
    • PSHE/BV/HRSE Combined Overview
    • HRSE
    • CAFOD Club
    • Working with other schools and communities
      ▼
      • Working with other schools and the community.
    • Fundraising and Charity Work
    • Parish Links