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Reception had a party to celebrate Christmas. We had an afternoon tea of party food and played party games such as musical chairs, bumps, statues and pin the nose on Santa. What a great party! 
 

On Christmas jumper day Reception took part in some Christmas crafts and also had a special visit from Santa. 
 

Our Reception’s Nativity of Little Blue Star. We are so proud of all of our Reception children. 
 

Our wonderful Year 2 children have been celebrating their Phonics Screening success with a certificate presentation and the eating of Christmas cupcakes. They achieved some of the best results we’ve ever seen by a class. We are so very proud of them all!

What a lot of skills Year 4 used today when making those Christmas Wreaths.
 

We all enjoyed some Christmas crafts whilst listening to classic Christmas tunes. 
 

Today we visited our parish church St. Mary’s.  We have been learning about the signs and symbols of Baptism.  In church we took part in a role play. We were able to recall the five signs and symbols of Baptism.  Today we found out about the significance of the oil of Chrism and its importance.…

During the final gymnastics lesson of the term, the Year 2 children were working towards a certificate. One of the criteria was to be able to use a dancing ribbon to create shapes. The children had great fun exploring the shapes they could create with them. What a fun lesson it was!
 

Year 5 have been learning how to write 4 figure grid references and how to use them. They used their skills to find exact locations of different places.

Year 1 have been busy writing letters to Santa.  Today we got wrapped up and walked to Egremont Main Street to post our special letters.  We were kindly invited into the post office to watch our letters being weighed and the stamps being put on. We then took our letter to the post box. We all…

We all had a go at pond dipping. We disturbed the riverbed to release invertebrates then captured a sample of the water so that we could make observations of any living organisms. We then used the scale to determine how fresh and unpolluted the water in the River Ehen is. 
 

We made very detailed observations of a section of the River Ehen so that we could make a technical drawing of the area using map symbols.