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13 March 2020

Year 3 & Year 6 Science Workshop

Year 3 and Year 6 enjoyed exploring reactions between solids and liquids as part of Science Day. We gave predictions and expanded our scientific reasoning.  When investigating dissolving using candy floss the children were challenged to use scientific vocabulary to explain how the solution was…

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11 March 2020

Year 1 Whinlatter

Wow Year 1 have all enjoyed the best day at Whinlatter learning how to follow a Map.  Thank you to Barbara in the education Yurt explaining all about how animals use their senses to navigate.  After an extensive map trail we were all delighted to return for lunch.  After lunch we explored the park…

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5 March 2020

Y1 Library Visit for World Book Day

Year 1 have enjoyed a fantastic trip to Egremont Library to celebrate World Book Day.  We enjoyed sharing stories and choosing a book to take home.  At the end of our session we shared a class story of ‘The Gruffalo’.  We enjoyed exploring the story sack that contained all the characters from ‘The…

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9 February 2020

Y1 Treasure Hunt

On Friday our phonics frog Fred made a treasure hunt for us along with some help from Miss Flynn and some Year 5 helpers.  We had a map to follow and hunted high and low for clues all around school.  It was lots of fun and we enjoyed working out the clues, some were linked to our Geography topic…

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30 January 2020

Y1 Make e-books

Over the past few weeks Year 1 have been using their computing lessons to create their own e-books. The children have created their own images, animated them and added sounds.  Along with this they have added text to accompany their stories.  All this has been created using Purple Mash the…

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30 January 2020

Y1 Number Bonds

Today we worked number bonds to 10.  We supported our learning by using Numicon to self check our calculations.  Some groups also used Play-Doh to explore all the possible number bonds combinations to 10.  We then enjoyed using our understanding to extend to number bonds to 20.…

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22 January 2020

Y1 Self-Portraits

 

 

 This afternoon we learnt about the techniques involved in creating a self-portrait.  We used photos of ourselves to allow us to focus on our features.  Some of the self-portraits still need finishing touches but what a fantastic effort from…

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17 January 2020

Y1 Maths

 

Today we enjoyed working in partners developing our understanding of ‘Tens and Ones’.   We encouraged each other to self check our answers and check for clear digits.  

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22 November 2019

Year 1 Year of the Eucharist

 

Year One enjoyed visiting Church this morning to celebrate the end of ‘The Year of the Eucharist’.  We said a prayer and quietly reflected.  Well done Year One for being so respectful.  

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15 November 2019

Y1 Anti-Bullying Day

Year One have had a wonderful day showing kindness to one another.  In the afternoon we made kindness hearts for our friends and families.  We especially enjoying delivering them around school. 

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14 November 2019

Choir

After school junior choir was rocking tonight with a playlist ranging from Queen to Stormzy!  We enjoyed some fun vocal warmups and simply having a great time together.  Mrs Robson and Miss Deans look forward to seeing you all next week and if anyone else wants to join please come…

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18 October 2019

Y1 Castles D&T

Year One have enjoyed a productive day creating their own castles.  Some of us may have more paint on ourselves than on the castles but we did have fun! The children designed their own to make sure they included key features such as ramparts, towers and of course a portcullis.  They are still…

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