Blog Author: Mrs Robson

Year 1 had a great time running with Marathon Man Gary McKee to support raising funds for Hospice at Home. It was a wonderful afternoon with every class cheering everyone on to do their best. 
 

Year 1 have been exploring Tens and Ones using Base Ten equipment to enhance their understanding. In partners they used Part Whole Models to explore partitioning Tens and Ones. Everyone grasped partitioning and enjoyed creating their own questions for their partner to answer using the Base 10…

Year 1 enjoyed their visit to Egremont Library. Tracey, the librarian, welcomed everyone. Year 1 had a great time browsing through the different fiction and non-fiction books. Once everyone made their selection, we all enjoyed a story together. Finally, Tracey let everyone stamp their books out…

Year 3 celebrated their love of reading when they visited the library. They selected a book to take home and listened to our class book. They even saw a surprise visitor ….. Mr and Mrs Stead.

Year 1 had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day. They spent the day sharing their favourite stories. Year 1 designed and created their own bookmarks. It was lovely sharing story time with Year 6 for even more stories. 
 

Year 1 and Year 2 had a fantastic time at the Friendship Disco to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week. Everyone danced til they dropped and looked after each other along the way. 
 

Nursery enjoyed coming to school wearing blue or their own clothes to celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week. 
 

Year 1 enjoyed celebrating Number Day with some help from Year 6. They enjoyed playing a selection of number based games together. It was lots of fun rolling the dice and counting along in Snakes and Ladders but not so much fun sliding down the snakes! Year 6 supported the children when needed and…

Year 2 had a great time completing some number based puzzles to celebrate Number Day. 
 

Year 1 performed ‘The Nativity’ beautifully. Amazing performances all round with fantastic narration, clear speaking parts and sensational singing. The Christmas story was well told and the audience were blown away with their dance moves. Congratulations to Year 1. 

Year 1 had a great day celebrating St. Andrew as it will be his feast day on Sunday 30th November. St. Andrew is Year One’s Saint. They found out about his life and why he was special. Year 1 created Scottish flags, made their own shortbread biscuits and even enjoyed some ceilidh dancing. 
 

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Year 1 loved their first music lesson with Zozo learning all about African Drums known as Djembe. It was great fun learning new songs and listening to Zozo’s stories with fun actions. We can’t wait for his next visit.