Y6 Year of the Eucharist Collage
Y6 were joined today by children from St Mary’s Kells and St Joseph’s at Frizington to create a collage of flowers to mark The Year of the Eucharist. We enjoyed making new friends and ended the day with some fun in the hall with the parachutes.
Nursery’s hatching chicks
The Nursery children came into school this morning to the delight that during the night we had some chicks hatch. We now have three lovely fluffy chicks to look after in Nursery and hopefully more to hatch over the weekend. The other children in school and all the staff were really excited to meet…
Reading rewards
Well done to all the children who have achieved their reading rainbow stripe this week by reading five times or more at home. Only one week to go to find out who has won a prize!
Y4 hockey tournament
Year 4 enjoyed taking part in a hockey tournament at Whitehaven school. They won, drew and lost some games but all played really well and showed good sportsmanship. Both teams came in 3rd place out of 8 schools.
Nursery’s chicks
Nursery have had some new additions this week. Our own chick eggs!!! We have been patiently waiting and singing to them all week and today we have seen the first signs of life. Watch this space! By tomorrow we will hopefully have some new baby chicks to look after.
Library Visit
Year One have had a great time today visiting Egremont library. We shared a couple of books together then chose books we thought we may like to read ourselves to take home.
Signs of Spring
What a perfect way to celebrate the first day of Spring than to go for a walk in the school grounds to look for signs of new life and growth!
Y4/6 Tree planting
Y4 and some Y6 have had a wonderful time planting trees by the River Ehen. They learnt about the importance of trees in the environment and planted a grand total of 700! We also got to see the Cumbria Rivers Trust’s new van with Jensen’s design on it!
Nursery's giant items
After reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk some of the children made giant items for the giant. They made giant watches, giant ties and bows and even some giant glasses.
Nursery role play
Our Nursery role play has now changed into a hairdressers. The children have had lots of fun doing each other’s hair and role playing in there. We even now have some pretend hair dryers and straighteners now too.
Nursery’s Science Experiment
Nursery watched a science experiment outside for Science day. The children watched as Mrs Palmer dropped some mints into a bottle of Pepsi. The mints then reacted and made the Pepsi shoot out like a fountain. All the children screamed and laughed as they didn’t know what was going to…
Reading rewards
Congratulations to all the Reception children who earned a rainbow stripe for reading five times or more at home. Keep up the hard work!