Year 3 Rounders 2024
Year 3 were excellent role models today as they represented our school in a rounders competition at St. Benedict’s School. They worked so well as a team and had a wonderful day. Well done everyone!
Finding out about how seeds grow in Y2
Year 2 are learning about plants in their science lessons. They have been finding out what germination is and how seeds grow. They worked together to label germination and growth from a seed to a seedling. Afterwards they planted some sunflowers seeds and gave them different conditions to grow in…
National Cricket Week 2024
As part of National Cricket Week we attended two cricket tournaments this week. On Monday we had a great day out at Whitehaven Cricket Ground playing against lots of different schools. On Thursday we went to Egremont Cricket Ground for another action packed day of competing. We all had a great…
Bees in the Trees Workshop with Year 2
This morning Bees in the Trees came to visit all the Infant classes. The children learned all about the life cycle of a bee and the different roles each type of bee plays in the beehive. Everyone had the chance to observe the bees up close at work in the beehive as well as handling some of the…
Buzzing About Bees in Year 1
There was definitely a buzz in Year 1 today with a fantastic visit from ‘Bees in the Trees’. Year 1 were amazed to get up close to the hive and observe the worker bees. They found out about the different roles bees play within the hive as they work together. Male bees in the hive are called…
Bees in the trees EYFS
We had a visit from ‘Bees in the trees’ for Reception and Nursery. The beekeeper taught us all about drone bees, worker bees and the queen bee. The children learnt all about larva and pupa and how the eggs develop. We then looked at what bees eat and the children got close up view of the bees.
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Nursery: The Suitcase Story
This week in Nursery our older children have been reading the story ‘The Suitcase’.
In the story an animal is travelling with his suitcase, and he shares with the others what he has in it.
The children were keen to share what they thought he would have with him and were shocked when he…
Active Maths Time
Year 2 began their work on time with an active maths lesson to recap o’clock and half past times. They had great fun moving around the playground in different ways and stopping to make given times on their individual clocks. What a great start it was to their work on time!
Y5 Orienteering and Den Building at Whinlatter
Year 5 had a fantastic day out at Whinlatter orienteering and den building. We spent the morning reading a map and finding 12 different check points where we had to collect a unique stamp. This was lots of fun but also quite challenging as some of them were quite tricky to find. In the afternoon…
Nursery: Maths Patterns
We have had lots of fun so far this week using the multi link cubes to make an AB repeating pattern.
At first some of the cubes were a bit tricky to click together but we got the hang of it in the end.
Exploring the School Grounds for Geography June 2024
As part of a geography unit on fieldwork and map skills, the Year 2 children have been exploring the school grounds to find physical and human features that they will need, in a future lesson, to show when drawing their own maps of the school grounds. The children also took the opportunity to play…
Geography - Year 3 OS Map Reading
Year 3 have been studying OS maps, looking at our local area and learning to find features using coordinates and symbols. They have discovered human and physical features of our local area and considered the difference between them.