Accrington Huncoat Primary School

Our School News

Take a look at a few of the things we do at Huncoat Primary School that we are proud of...

Year 2 Victorian Christmas

Year 2 had an amazing experience at Gawthorpe Hall for a Victorian Christmas.

They learnt all about 'Stir up Sunday' and where all the ingredients for a traditional pudding came from in a real Victorian Kitchen.

They also met a 'Traditional Father Christmas' - he showed them what he left in stockings all those years ago: oranges, apples, coal, a penny, marbles and he read them 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'

Edith loves her bees and wants to be a Bee Keeper - on World of Work day she came dressed up as a Bee Keeper and brought everyone some honey in her class! This is wonderful Edith! 

Well done to Jenson in year 5!

Accrington Stanley sent a poetry competition to all schools to write a poem about their club.

Jenson won first prize at Huncoat and was presented with a winning medal. The rest of the class were rewarded for their poems by Accrington Stanley. 

If Jenson wins out of the whole of Accrington schools who entered, he will get to read his poem at the Match! We are very proud of all of year 5 and Jenson! 

Our Year 6 Residential to Hothersall Lodge

In September we took year 6 to Hothersall Lodge for 3 days. They took part in canoeing/ gorge walking/ climbing/ zip lining/ caving/ orienteering/ archery.

Their behaviour and manners were impeccable and they were a joy to take on this trip - well done year 6! 

Architecture Week

• We have had an architect come and talk to Year 6 about life as an Architect
• We have had free build ideas inspired by the  'Dream Up' book
• We have studied and drawn Arches
• We have looked at famous building across the UK and across world and linked to Geography
• We have designed in 3D in Yr6 our own buildings of the future
• We have made dens in KS1 and KS2 have designed their own 'crazy den' space
• We have looked at timelines of building going back to Stoneage to Modern Day 

Our Amazing Whole School Trip to Lytham

We took 200 children to ParkView4U in Lytham - the sun shone all day and we had a great time. 

Everyone had an ice cream too!

All our children were very well behaved and we are very proud of our school.

15th May 2024 - Year 5 and Year 2 visited the Hindu Temple and the Mosque in Preston! It was so good to compare and contrast the different places of worship and to understand how different religions pray and reflect. Here are some pic collages of our time on our trip!

A MASSIVE thank you to Senator at Huncoat for the amazing donations of Food Bags to donate to anyone in need this Christmas. Our heartfelt thanks have been sent to The Senator Group on behalf of our school, families and the community. 

Christmas is coming to Huncoat

We enjoyed our annual Christmas Craft afternoon and linked our craft to 3D art in our curriculum

Dear Parents and Guardians,

We are SO happy to announce that SportsCool will be running another government funded FREE HOLIDAY CLUB for Free School Meal and SEN children at our School this Winter on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th January.

Parents can also pay and book their child on if they do not qualify for the free sessions (see below)

📍 VENUE: ACCRINGTON HUNCOAT PRIMARY SCHOOL

⏰ TIMES: 8:30am - 12:30 = FSM 1:00PM - 4:00PM = SEN

🗓 DATES: TUESDAY - FRIDAY 2-5TH JAN

🌟 FOOD: All children will be provided with a meal at the club they attend

THE CLUB/WHAT TO EXPECT: ⚽ MULTISPORTS ⛄ FESTIVE FUN GAMES 🏆 PRIZES

📣 HOW TO BOOK 📣 Follow this link https://bit.ly/schuncoat23

Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you soon! If your child is NOT eligible for a free place, you can book for a paid session here - sportscool.schoolipal.co.uk

TEAM SPORTSCOOL

Year 6 had a great time at Hothersall Lodge, we went climbing, canoeing, orienteering, completed archery and built shelters and fires. 

We had a great day out at Blackpool Zoo, we all went from Nursery to Year 6. The weather was great and we loved seeing sea lions, gorillas, the new lionesses, giraffes and so many more.

We then learnt about Habitats and Conservation through our Geography and Science. 

We celebrated Coronation Day in Red, White and Blue - with a fantastic picnic, learning all about our new King and making Coronation Crafts.

Look at our new Coronation Logo our gifted artists made as well!  

We loved our Easter Fun Night with lots of activities: face painting/ pin the tail on the bunny/ arts/ crafts/ egg hunts/ name the bunny/ build a lego chick hut/ roll the egg

STEM week at Huncoat:

Year 5 and 6 Summer Production July 2022 - Pirates of the Currybean

Beach Day 2022! What a fabulous day we all had, take a look...

Year five - Songwriting day! 

Today we have had Mr Brown in school to help us write a new song all about Great Britain. We thought about different elements and aspects that make the UK such as British values, the Queen, armed forces and the NHS. We worked with our shoulder partners to compose some lyrics and we had to think of lots of rhyming words. Mr Brown showed us his acoustic guitar, it was loud. However, he then showed us his electric guitar and it was SUPER LOUD! 

He Performed a song called 'White man driver', it was AMAZING!

Year Five - Our trip to Liverpool! (Summer - term 1)

Year five had a fabulous time at the Liverpool Maritime Museum. We took part in a Transatlantic slavery workshop based on our History topic. We learnt about racial discrimination in Britain and how slaves were transported. We discussed how this has impacted on our lives today and we compared times of the past to present day. 

We spent the day Bunny Hopping for East Lancs Hospice - we had great fun and raised loads for charity too! 

Year 3 and 4 History Lego Workshops

Both classes had an amazing time creating historical buildings out of Lego. 

In year 3 we built Roman temples and villas. 

In year 4 we built Egyptian pyramids and sphinxes.

Key Stage 1 STEM Afternoon 

Santa Claus is coming to town, Santa Claus is coming to Huncoat...

LEST WE FORGET...

Our Halloween Disco is back! It was great to be able to have dsicos back so the children could enjoy themselves, check out our fantastic decoartions:

The Beach comes to Huncoat...

We had sandpits with buckets, spades, pools and ice creams. We had beach art inside and out, we were lucky enough to paint rocks like on the beach! 

We had an amazing Rock Pool visit school today...we saw Star Fish, Hermit Crabs, Mermaid's Purses. 

We learnt Starfish have 500 feet! 

Our Aspirations Day 

Christmas has arrived...meet the reindeer who came for a visit.

Our Christmas Bauble Workshop day: 

We had a great day making fantastic baubles in our workshop, the children will get to take these beautiful memories home. 

Look at our carved Pumpkins our after school club carved for Huncoat Village Pumpkin trail, when out and about this half term check the pumpkins out throughout the village.

We have had our hall painted by the artist Ursula at ArtDaze - we have our Huncoat Values for all to see and our bucket to fill each day full of kindness. What a beautiful display!

Look at this stunning display created by our KS1 key worker children and Miss Wilmer. The group have spent two weeks learning about Bees... what a beautiful display!

We are really proud of all your Home Learning during the school closure. You are a credit to yourself and to your family. Keep up the good work and keep sending your learning moments in. You are making history for the future...

Get ready for SING TOGETHER

Year 6 and members of the choir will be working hard this half term to learn songs to sing at King George's Hall, Blackburn on Thursday 5th March. To help with learning the songs and actions pupils can use the Dropbox link below. Please copy and paste the link into a new tab:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p65d500lk7zmvjf/AACoLkIFZU0h5s2ce5P8xXSFa?dl=0

This is our Spring Term Art Gallery - the children were challenged to draw, paint in the style of Picasso. 

Huncoat Primary School are helping their environment by planting trees that have been donated to us.  Year 3 and 4 had a great time planting new trees in our grounds. 

Year 5 Linking Day with Christ the King in Burnley...

Congratulations to our Art Competition Winners. They made pictures and collages in the style of Roy Lichtenstein

Watch out for next term's competition and a new artist!

Our Year 1 and 2 children entertained us with a beautiful performance of Babushka 

Thank you to Mrs Williams and to all those who sang at Huncoat Tree Lighting in the village on 2nd December. 

We had a great Christmas Craft morning with all our parents, ready to decorate our classrooms and our tree. 

DIWALI DAY

We celebrated Diwali in school and were lucky to have visitor from the Hindu faith join us all day. She helped us with traditional dancing and welcomed us with Bindi. We learnt so much about the festival and the Hindi Faith.  

We are celebrating the excellent Writing that happens around our school. We took photos as we walked around our school looking for Writing happening every day. This is what we found from Nursery right up to Year 6...

Science Workshop 

Well done to our group of Year 2 pupils, who took part in a Science Workshop, at St . Peters CE School along with other pupils from local schools.  I think we may have some budding scientists at Huncoat!
 

Check out our New Library...

 We had an artist   http://artdaze.co.uk/   come and decorate our new KS1 Library to help promote 'Love for Reading' 

Check out the photos of the new library and pop in for a visit! 

Harvest Time at Huncoat

Each year we collect for our local food banks in Accrington, a massive amount is collected each year by the children thank you. 

In October 2018 we were awarded the PSQM - Primary Science Quality Award. Thank you for all the hard work from everyone to gain this award. 

Quality Matters...

We are proud to have been awarded the prestigious Lancashire Quality Award for our Early Years provision.

If you would like to have a look at our EYFS department, contact school.