Enrichment Opportunities

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At Larkholme, we believe on offering our pupils different opportunities to enrich their experiences. This may be after school clubs, special visitors, trips or specialist events in school.

2025-2026

Thank you to everyone who attended our wreath making workshop today. There was definitely lots of Christmas creativity in the air!

Yesterday, some of Eco Club worked alongside Tony from the Fylde Coast Veterans to tidy up our memorial garden. Thank you to Tony for his help and well done to Eco Club for taking such care and pride in their work.

We had a visit again from Ross, a local magistrate, who came to talk to our year 5 children about her job and the justice system.

The children took part in a cyber bullying mock trial and took on different roles including the prosecutor, the defence, the defendant and the victim. After listening to the evidence, the children discussed whether the victim was guilty or not guilty.

Ross then talked to the children about the importance of being kind to others online and when using social media.

Thank you Ross for an engaging and educational session!

Yesterday we were visited by Scientific Sarah from the Mad Science Company who introduced us to lots of new scientists and performed some very exciting experiments. We were all blown away and in awe of how fascinating the experiments were. Mad Science are offering an After School Club to begin in January for 6 weeks, letters explaining more and instructions of how to sign up have been sent to you, so get your name down quick to avoid disappointment.

Yesterday, our Head Students and Deputy Head Students were invited into the Council Chamber at Wyre Council as part of Local Democracy Week where the children were introduced to local government and democracy.

There was a mix of information, interaction, and activities. There was a new focus on climate change this year, and the children were given information about what the council is currently doing in this area. They found out about the Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan and took part in a hypothetical exercise where the children helped the council plan its next climate change project. They certainly gave the councillors lots to think about and made the voices of young people heard!

Our students behaved impeccably and were an absolute credit to Larkholme Primary School.

Yesterday, a team of representatives from Larkholme attended the Remembrance Service at the Cenotaph in Fleetwood. Despite it being a very wet morning the children represented our school with pride and respect.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend.

Lest we forget

Our head and deputy students and prefects joined Tony at the Fylde Coast Veteran’s Garden today for their Remembrance service.

They will also be attending Fleetwood Cenotaph at the Memorial Park on Sunday and will be joining the parade at 10:30am.

We hope to see some of you there.

Lest we forget

Today in Retro Club we tested our resilience by playing a string game called ‘Cat’s Cradle’ The object of the game is to create a sequence of figures by passing a loop of string between players without making mistakes. It is not as easy as it looks!

We also played an old favourite party game – ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ which resulted in lots of laughter when the blindfolds were removed!

Tony from Fylde Coast Veterans also led an assembly for our Y5 and Y6 children on Remembrance and the importance of the poppy.

Today Tony from the Fylde Coast Veterans came in today to plant up some seedlings with Eco Club. We made great use of our polytunnel.

On Friday, Eco Club planted some daffodil bulbs ready for Spring.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our Serve and Return workshop this morning.

Serve and return works like an imaginary tennis match between a child and a caregiver. But instead of hitting a ball back and forth, various forms of communication pass between the two. These interactions exchanged throughout a young person’s developing years are the bricks that build a healthy foundation for all future development.

Children can ‘serve’ with words, touch, or pointing. Caregivers can ‘return’ by noticing their serve and responding to keep the exchange going. Remember to play at the same ‘pace’ or speed as the child.

Our Head Students visited the Pantry today to drop off our donations from our harvest festival.

A huge well done to some of the Y5 members of eco club who led today’s assembly. They shared the story of Sunny’s Blazing Battle, which have been donated by Fleetwood and Cleveleys Lion Club. We look forward to their next assembly.

It was the Year 5 Harvest Assembly for parents this morning. They performed brilliantly and we are all proud of them.

Thank you also to all the families that have donated food so we can support local food banks.

Thank you to everyone for coming to the phonics and early reading workshop. The children really enjoyed working with their adults to play games and practice their reading skills. Everyone had lots of fun!

Thank you to everyone who came to model painting workshop today. We have raised £150 towards our funds for the children. Please look out for future workshops throughout the year.

Today we had a visit from Councilor Karen Nicholson who came to open our new polytunnel. We were fortunate enough to have been awarded the money for our polytunnel from Fleetwood Town Council. Two of our Eco Club took Karen on a tour of our grounds as well.

Year 6 have been busy creating at lunchtimes with Mrs Mellow! Year 6 were gifted £50 that they have now used to buy craft items that we will sell on closer to Christmas ( more details to follow). Money raised will go towards an end of year treat for Year 6. So that we can continue being creative, we would appreciate any donations of toilet roll holders, wool or clean jam jars dropped to the school office

Well done to the members of Eco Club who worked with the Fylde Coast Veterans today to tidy up and maintain our memorial garden. We weeded, planted bulbs and collected seeds. During the winter months we will be using our polytunnel to grow plants ready to plant out in the spring (hopefully from some of the seeds we collected today).

Thank you to everyone who attended today’s Brain Architecture workshop. There will be more dates in the future.

Don’t forget about our Serve and Return workshop 20th Oct 9am for you and your child. This is for Rec. Y1 and Y2 at this time.

The children were having a fantastic lunchtime today using the dressing up materials in Lucy’s Area. Thank you to everyone who made this possible

Today Larkholme, in conjunction with the THRIVE network, delivered a Brain Architecture and Oxford Brain Story session to the wider workforce in Fleetwood. Thank you to all the great professionals who attended today.

Retro club enjoys playing some games from the past including French Skipping – it is not as easy as it looks but we all had great fun.

Year 4 had a fantastic adventure on their overnight camp trip. We built shelters, made fires, had a nerf gun fight and loads of other games and activities.

A huge thank you to all the staff and volunteers who gave up their time to ensure the trip could happen- Mrs Sims. Mr Ronson, Miss Moore, Mrs Young, Robbie Sims, Mrs Mellow and Mrs Thwaites.

All the children were brilliant and we are very proud of how well behaved they were and how much resilience they showed.

Thank you to Dave (and his assistant Sam) for leading the sessions- Commando Experiences and Commando Rugby School

2024-2025

Working with Fleetwood in Bloom

We would like to say a huge thank you to Cllr Jimi Kuruvakadua, Cllr Karen Nicholson and Barry Thompson, who came in today to lead a special VE day assembly. To remember this special day the children dressed in red, white and blue and engaged in lots of learning activities related to VE day. We also enjoyed a street party lunch in the sunshine.

Special thank you to Barry for playing the Last Post on his bugle and to Jimi for arranging the visit.

Our head boy and head girl also laid a wreath in our newly created memorial garden.

Lest we forget.

Thank you to everyone who attended the opening of our memorial garden dedicated to the 80th anniversary of VE day. Eco Club have worked hard to turn their idea into a beautiful reality and have been supported by the Fylde Coast Veterans.

Thank you to our lovely choir for singing for us tonight.

A huge thank you to Fylde Coast Veterans, Barton Grange, members of Fleetwood Town council, our parents and our wider community for all their help and support.

This is an area we want all children and visitors to enjoy and respect. Please remind children that this is a quiet area and is not for running around in at the start and at the end of the school day.

Well done to Eco Club on all their hard work- we are very proud of you.

Super writing from 3 superstars who all got a Headteacher’s Award today. Well done!

We were really honoured to host the Outdoor Learning Conference for the teacher trainees from Preston PSA. It is always a privilege to help inspire the next generation of teachers.

Enjoying lunchtime on a sunny day

Before the Easter holidays, Ronan and Matthew sent Ms Gilmour a letter explaining that 23rd April is St George’s Day, and as the patron saint of scouting, they asked that the children could come to school in their scouting uniforms. We have loved seeing children in their different uniforms today – and we loved the assembly that Matthew and Ronan did, finishing with them teaching the whole school some campfire songs. Well done everyone!

Eco Club have been putting some ideas together for our Memorial Garden to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE day. They are really looking forward to meeting with the Veteran’s next week to finalise their ideas.

We would like to say a big thank you to Ian Thomlinson from the British Legion, who donated 2 silhouettes to us. We just need to spray paint them black.

On Thursday, 6th March, our wonderful choir, accompanied by Mr. Hall, Mrs. Parker, Miss Oldroyd and Mrs. Birks, attended our very first Lancashire Sings event!! What a BLAST!!!

We sang some wonderful songs, with 6 other choirs from Lancashire and Blackpool, including actions, sign language AND some sneaky teachers’ only singing – and entertained a lovely audience with our performance in the afternoon as well!

A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Parker, Miss Oldroyd and Mrs. Birks for helping us get there, and to ALL the parents and relations who were able to join us for the performance. It was AMAZING!!

On a little side note – our coach driver was able to listen to the singing from the warmth of a park bench outside the Lowther Pavilion and said that it sounded wonderful – even from there. He also mentioned that he normally transports 2 or 3 school groups a day, but Larkholme were so wonderful that he had to mention what a credit they were to us. So, thank you parents, thank you staff and THANK YOU CHOIR – for being THE BEST!!

A big thank you to Mr Hall for all the fabulous work he does with the choir.

World Book Day was a huge success and you all wowed us with your creative ideas and story clues. All the children from Reception to Year 6 have had a fabulous day full of activities and games based around the children’s favourite books. The children made some fantastic creations for our World Book Day game Guess My Character/Book. We also loved having time to sit down with our friends and enjoy reading some of our chosen books. Thank you to all the parents and families that supported the children in this day. It really did put smiles on everyone’s faces and I am sure you all enjoyed working on your projects together at home.

Keep reading everyone!

It has been all go at lunchtime today! We have our very own Wombles Club that has been created by the children. They are doing extra litter picks. If any children have an idea for a club they would like to run at lunchtimes they just need to go and see Mrs Lee.

We have had the big parachute out for fun and games and we have the music back on. Beginning to feel like Spring is on its way!

World Book Day got off to a great start with a lovely assembly with Mrs Cooper and Paddington Bear!

The children have been loving the card swap club that runs every Wednesday lunchtime.

Fun was had at the jewel shop today. Remember the more jewels you earn, the more you can spend at the shop.

A few members of our Eco Club were invited to go see the Veteran’s Garden today. We learnt how the Veteran’s had developed the plot of land and took lots of photos for inspiration. In a few weeks the children will be meeting again with Tony to start planning a memorial garden space at the front of school. We are really excited to be working with the Veteran’s group on this project for the 80th anniversary of VE day.

We look forward to sharing our progress.

Eco club would like to saw a big thank you to Tony and Eddie who showed us around today and for the lovely cakes!

Last Monday, our dance squad represented Larkholme Primary School at Blackpool Tower Ballroom! They were absolute superstars and made us all incredibly proud. They danced their socks off and sparkled away on the stage! What a fab way to spend the day. Well done everyone!!

Today we had a visit from Elizabeth Bradley (PCSO) and Jo Garstang (PC), who are part of the community policing team. They popped in today to get to know the children a bit better and will be working with Larkholme. It was great for our children to meet them today and to understand that the police are there to help us. We look forward to working with Lizzie and Jo in the future

Some of our pupils took part in the 3 round maths challenge at Fleetwood High School. All three children were so respectful, well behaved and hardworking throughout

Well done to Eco Club who led an assembly yesterday to introduce their healthy eating initiative. Children in keystage 2 will receive a blue card that they can get signed each time they bring in a healthy snack for breaktime. Once the card is completed, they can exchange it for a golden ticket!

Well done to Eco Club for putting this together

Headteacher Awards

3Y had their first African drumming session this afternoon and were brilliant! Well done 3Y!

Yesterday our head boy and girl and deputy head boy and girl presented our local community hamper to Reverend Katie.

Thank you to Fleetwood Town FC who came to visit us yesterday afternoon.

On Monday, 16th December, the Larkholme Comp Choir took some festive spirit to some of our local care home residents!

The residents of the Fleetwood Hall Care Home were treated to a session of Christmas music and fun, with traditional carols and more recent Christmas hits being sung with wonderful energy and joy!

The children brought a smile to the faces of the residents and the staff at the care home and we just want to send a BIG thank you to Fleetwood Hall, our wonderful walking volunteers (Mrs. P, Mr. and Mrs. T and Mrs. M) and, especially, the children for bringing some festive cheer to everyone. A big thank you to Mr Hall for organising the event and for volunteering his time to lead the choir.

Well done to all of our pupils who have been to our jewel shop.

Our Golden Ticket winners had a great time at their glow in the dark dodgeball. The children will be voting on their new Golden Ticket treat in the New Year.

A huge well done to our Year 4 for their lovely Christingle service last night. It was fantastic to see such a large turn out of parents, family and friends.

A huge thank you to all the staff who made last night possible.

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our Christmas singing yesterday

Thank you to everyone who attended today’s Inside Out inspired workshop. We hope to offer lots more opportunities in the New Year.

Last night the magic elves stopped by and updated all of our corridors. We now have an amazing display for the 12 Days of Christmas

Thank you to everyone who came along to support the Lantern Parade on Saturday. We would also like to say a huge well done to our fabulous choir who sang at the Marine Hall. As well as a big thank you to all the staff who volunteered to help, especially Mr Hall for leading the choir.

Our Choir is getting ready for the big stage with the excellent sound technician from the Marine Hall! Hope to see everyone there!!

Today Reception had a very exciting visitor!

The fire fighters came to see us in their fire engine. The children had an amazing time exploring the inside, firing the hose and learning about the different parts of the fire engine.

On Wednesday, 20th November, the children of Larkholme were treated to a wonderful concert by the Blackpool Male Voice Choir. With over 14 of their members joining us for our assembly, a wonderful accompanist and fabulous choir director, the children were treated to music from stage and screen, as well as some wonderful choral renditions of more traditional songs. As ever, Larkholme children were wonderful audience members and a big thank you to them for being so considerate.

To the members of the amazing choir, we cannot thank them enough for their time, energy and beautiful music!

We would also like to extend our thanks to Mr Macdonald who has started offering guitar lessons to pupils. The children really enjoyed these as well.

Today 3/4I had some special visitors- Councillor Karen Nicholson and

Councillor Jayne Martin who came into to talk to the children about Fleetwood in Bloom

Today our wildlife pond was completed by the fabulous team from Lancashire Wildlife Trust. A huge thank you to everyone who helped us to reach out target- Eco Club, Victrix, Ernest Trust, PTFA and school. We really look forward to watching our new habitat develop and can’t wait to see what wildlife comes to visit.

This afternoon we were invited to take 6 children from Year 4 to the unveiling of three local plaques in Fleetwood as part of the local Blue Plaque Trail.

The first was at Customs House (Fleetwood Museum) which was unveiled after we listened to a talk on the history of the building. We then travelled to the Steamer where Syd Little and his wife joined us for the unveiling at Shakespeare. We then walked up to Queens Terrace fir the third plaques.

Two further plaques are to be unveiled next week which will complete the 10 in total around Fleetwood.

Once we had completed the unveiling we went back to the museum where the children were given a gift bag and allowed to select a book from thd Book Shop next door.

It was a privilege to be involved in the project and to help support Fleetwood.

Thank you to everyone who attended our OAL workshop today. Our habitat area is looking refreshed and welcoming for all our insect friends.

2023-2024

We would like to say a huge well done to our AMAZING Year 6 for their fabulous performance last night.

Our Golden Ticket Raffle winners really enjoyed their Little Zoo to You visit. In September we will be starting the new raffle and the children will be able to select the award.

Year 6 residential

Sports Day

Yesterday Year 6 had their trip to the Pleasure Beach. We all had an amazing time. We were very proud of how many people commented on the excellent behaviour of Year 6. Thank you very much to Mr Ronson for organising such a fab day and to all of the staff who volunteered. Finally, a huge well done to our amazing Year 6!

On Friday Eco Club harvested our first crop of garlic. We also had to harvest our onions as they had bolted due to the weather. We have left some of our onions in the ground so that they can flower and we can collect the seeds. We look forward to using these in our cooking.

We had a visit from Hardeep and Amrit today who are part of the Building Bridges Programme which supports our RE curriculum. They did a whole school assembly about Sikhism and then followed this up with an interactive session with our year 5 and 6 pupils. A big thank you to Hardeep and Amrit for presenting the information in such an interesting and engaging way. The children learnt lots of new facts about Sikhism and had the opportunity to ask questions about this faith. 

Some students from Rossall School came to speak to our year 5 and 6 pupils about their different religions. We learnt what it was like to follow different faiths including Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism and Hinduism. We would like to say a big thank you to Rossall for giving up their time to come and speak to us.  It was great to listen to such inspirational young people and learn about their different beliefs. Our pupils were really engaged and thoroughly enjoyed the session. They had the opportunity to ask questions and learnt lots of interesting facts – who would have known that one Buddhist festival involves a water fight in the streets!

Reception had a marvellous time at the zoo yesterday. Their behaviour was brilliant and their teachers were very proud of them!

Today Eco Club worked with our Chair of Governors (thank you Mrs Atkinson) to weed our big planters. Then they met with the Premises Committee and were able to ask the governors questions about the school. Including asking the governors to investigate about solar panels for the school and how our waste removal is managed!

Taking part in the RHS Big Grow

Jayne from Fleetwood in Bloom came in to help Eco Club to create a wildflower area. Eco Club did a great job so hopefully we will have wild flowers in a few weeks.

Thank you to Jayne for her guidance this afternoon.

Naomi from the Salvation Army came into visit Year 3 and Year 4. She shared a story about the Salvation Army and God and how they help people.

Reading Cafe

We had two Sikh visitors in school yesterday who talked to our children about their religion and beliefs. This is part of the Building Bridges programme where we have made links with other religions and have invited them into school to support our RE curriculum.

Dr Armrit and Hardeep visited to teach the children about the Sikh faith. They talked about the origins, the Gurus, the five Ks, gender equality, head coverings, the importance of food, training that they go through e.g Marshall arts and so much more. They played songs, showed videos and gave a presentation. The children were able to look at and handle the artefacts.

We would like to say a huge thank you to them both for a fantastic day!

Another great lunchtime using the loose parts play!

Plant Sale

Donation from Asda

Thank you Asda Fleetwood for our plants!

Fleetwood Town Community Trust

Today, Larkholme Primary School Year 6 had their SATS stress session. Utilising the acronym ‘BREATHE’ they covered lots of stress reducing activities such as breathing, relaxing strategies, energy levels and support systems

Resilient Reader Awards

Golden Ticket Reward

Our KS1 Golden Ticket Award Winners got to meet Gemma and a few of her friends: Mee-chelle the African Land Snail, Millie the African Millipede, Jagger the Bearded Dragon, Cruella the Scorpion, Kellogg’s the Corn Snake and Bean the Guinea Pig!

Our KS2 Golden Ticket Raffle winners went on an adventure day to Thistleton with Commando Dave. We had a great time playing nerf wars, hide and seek, climbing the rope ladder, completing the obstacle course, toasting marshmallows and just having fun.

Our Choir

A huge well done to our choir who performed at the Marine Hall last night- they were sensational!

A massive thank you to Mr Hall for all his time and dedication in preparing the choir. We would also like to thank all the volunteers who assisted last night.

A wonderful evening was had by all.

Assembly from Darran (WISE)

Today we had another visit from Darran, who works for WISE(Waste Investigations, Support & Enforcement), and on behalf of Wyre Council. He came in to lead an assembly on the importance of putting litter in the bin and recycling, reducing and reusing where we can. He also gave out prizes to the winners of our poster competition- well done to all our winners!

A big thank you to Darran for coming back to visit us again.

Fleetwood in Bloom

Today Eco club worked with Jayne from Fleetwood in Bloom and Councillor Harry Swatton to plant some beautiful polyanthus. They had to prepare them for planting and will be caring for them all season.

Thank you to the parents who have donated planters as we have used these today. Have a look next time you come to the school office.

Eco Club

Eco club did a fantastic job at the Mount today, building a dead hedge and planting some trees. A huge thank you to Georgia from Wyre for inviting us and to Mr Bradley from Rossall for driving us. Eco club really enjoyed making a difference in their local community- well done!

Crucial Crew Even for Year 6

On Thursday 22nd February, Year 6 attended Crucial Crew event at YMCA Lofthouse Building in Fleetwood. The event provides children with life skills that will help to keep themselves and others safe.

All the children had a great time during all of the interactive workshops. These workshops included: the fire service, the police, the paramedic service, The CO Crew, the National Coastwatch and We Are With You who spoke about the dangers of vaping.

Parent Winter Craft Workshop

Mental Health and Well being with FTFC.

Rachel is working with Year 6 on strategies for managing stress and worries. They have been discussing healthy strategies for coping. Rachel then invited some players from Fleetwood Town to talk to the children about their own experiences.

Year 3 and Year 4 Visit to Liverpool World Museum

As part of their history unit Year 3 and Year 4 visited the museum and took part in a mummification workshop!

Article in the Gazette

Visit and Assembly from Darran (WISE)

Today we had a visit from Darran, who works for WISE(Waste Investigations, Support & Enforcement), and on behalf of Wyre Council. First of all he went with Eco club on litter pick and we filled 4 bin bags worth of rubbish! He then led a whole school assembly and we discussed why littering is bad for the environment. He also made links to the rule of law explaining that littering is a criminal offence and fines can be more than £100. If it goes to court costs can be up to £2500! The children were very passionate talking about reducing the amount of litter in order to protect the environment and their future.

Thank you to Darran for his time and kind donation of extra litter pickers as well as to Eco Club for their work this afternoon.

Elmer

We are very excited to be taking part in Elmer’s Big Parade Blackpool.

We have collected the children’s designs and used these to create our final Elmer design. Over the next few weeks the children will be painting Elmer ready for his big debut!

Over this term we will be doing some fundraising towards our Elmer- so keep a look out for upcoming events!

Visit from FTFC Players

Singing at Rossall Chapel

The Choir Singing at our Local Care Home

Pantomime

Wreath Making Workshop.

First Aid in Year 5 and Year 6

Visit from the Coastguard.

Visit from Hedgehog Rescue Blackpool

Planting Bulbs at the Mount

Remembrance Day

Planting a tree nursery- Eco Club

Author Visit

Workshop from Fleetwood Civic Society

Phonics and Reading Workshop for Reception and Year 1

African Dance Workshop for Reception and KS1

Assembly Delivered by the Scouting Association

Level 5 RHS School Gardening Award

Football Team

Year 4 Wild Camping

OAL Well Being Parent Workshop

Careers Fair for Year 6

Fun and Adventure

Maths Escape Room Challenge

Glee Club performance

Commando Dave Experience- supporting problem solving and resilience building

Visitors to support the curriculum

Sewing Club

Fleetwood High Maths Competition

Stranger Danger assembly delivered by PCSOs

Joe Garner visited Y5/6 to talk about mental well-being as part of the HeadStart project with Fleetwood town community Trust.

Year 5 trumpet performance

Sing-a-long with pupils and parents at the chapel

Mental Health Player Visit

Glow in the dark dodge ball

Assembly from Rev Kate

Dance Festival

Hockey Festival

Year 5 and Year 6 Visit to Rossall Observatory.

Year 1 Visit to Rossall Chapel

Yoga for Well Being

Visitors for Remembrance Day

Year 5 Trumpets

Science Club

Year 3 Team Building

Play Leaders

Judo

Year 3 Cooking at Rossall