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The girls’ cricket team thoroughly enjoyed their matches against other local schools yesterday, winning 2 out of 3 games. 

We said a fond fairwell to our tadpoles today.  Becca has taken them back to the pond at Florence Arts Centre as they were developing both front and back legs.  We can visit the pond to see how they are getting on a little later in the year.

Year 2 haven been learning about the history of their local area and how it links to other parts of the world. They learnt about how slaves from Africa were bought and sold. 

Year 2 enjoyed learning about how Whitehaven is connected to Africa at The Rum Story museum today. 

Year 6 were joined by their parents for an afternoon creating Holy Spirit doves. The children enjoyed teaching their families about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and showing off their beautiful work and learning in their R.E. books. 

Year 6 have enjoyed learning about the 32 countries involved in the World Cup. They have plotted the countries on a world map and used our class atlases to research each country’s flag. The classroom was a riot of colour and paint as we enjoyed a morning of flag painting!

As part of their topic on Africa and preparation for their trip to The Rum Story tomorrow, Year 2 re-enacted how squashed the slaves must have felt on the slave ships. 

We had great fun making sensory bottles. We loved choosing all the glitter and sparkles to go inside them. We were really pleased with how they looked at the end.

Reception were joined by their parents and grandparents to learn about the Feast of Corpus Christi in R.E. They listened to the story of the Last Supper and found out what is meant by ‘The Body of Christ’. They received bread, coloured pictures of chalices and decorated plastic chalices. The…

Well done to this week’s Stars of the Week! Keep up the excellent work, behaviour and attitudes to learning! 

Nursery: Fletcher Butler

Reception: Lucy Long

Year 1: The Whole Class

Year 2: Lillia Barwise

Year 3: Lucy Forster 

Year 4: Connor Butterworth

Year 5: Mia Mackie

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Year 2 enjoyed taking part in the Country Dancing Festival at Whitehaven Sports Centre.

This week in Nursery we have been talking about our favourite places to go and visit. The children drew a picture of their favourite place and we talked about it in circle time.