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4 October 2019

Y6 Aspiration Session

Y6 enjoyed a morning with representatives from the Cumbria Primary Business partnership who came in to deliver a series of workshops about different jobs and career paths available in Cumbria. 

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4 October 2019

Nursery making gingerbread men and ladies

Nursery have been reading the story of the gingerbread man and acting it out with puppets. We then made our own gingerbread men and ladies and decorated them after they had been baked in the oven. This time though they had no time to run away as they were eaten by the children! Yum!

 

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4 October 2019

Nursery’s first PE session

Nursery had their first PE session this week. We played the ‘runner bean’ game. Then we moved to different musical instruments. The children really enjoyed it and can’t wait until next week!

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3 October 2019

Investigating properties of rocks

Today, we learnt lots of new vocabulary to describe rocks such as: igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, permeable, durable and density. We used this vocabulary to describe our rocks and their properties. 

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3 October 2019

Year4 Prayer and Liturgy

Today’s Prayer and Liturgy was about how we can follow in Jesus’ footsteps by helping others. 

 

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2 October 2019

Strudda farm trip - Reception

Reception had a fantastic morning at Strudda farm with Farmer Kev! They learned lots about local farm life and animals. They were able to meet some animals, ride on the tailor, dig for potatoes and lots more. 

 

 

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1 October 2019

Windermere trip, the final chapter!

We worked so efficiently through our workshops so we even had time for making our own Stone Age rope, using rushes! We had a great day and learnt so much!

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1 October 2019

Stone Age to Iron Age @ Windermere Part 2

After a treasure hunt for evidence of hunter gatherers, in the woods, we enjoyed our lunch. Following that, we made copper imprints and used natural pigments to create a cave painting

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1 October 2019

Year 3 learn about The Stone Age to Iron Age @ Windermere - Part 1

Today we were keen for a hands on, fun filled day of learning about Stone Age to Iron Age. Firstly, we made a timeline, then we created our own axes made from slate and willow. We then investigated the skills used in hunter gathering. We learnt so much from POO. What animals eat? How big the…

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27 September 2019

Y1 Computing

 

 

Year 1 have been working hard at being able to log on independently using their usernames and passwords.  Today’s session definitely showed how well they are progressing at this.  We enjoyed playing maths games on Purple Mash.  Remember to log on to TT Rockstars at…

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27 September 2019

Year 1 Library Visit

 

 

Today Year 1 enjoyed a trip to Egremont Library.  We enjoyed choosing our own books and sharing them with friends.  To finish off our session we listened to The Gruffalo story from one of the story sacks which even had some of the characters inside to play with.…

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26 September 2019

Practising our understanding of place value with a game

We come to the end of our place value work and use our knowledge in a basketball game!

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