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As part of our local area topic we today have been looking at our school grounds.  We looked at all the different materials we have in our school and took rubbings to show the different textures our school and playground have.  We are hoping to visit the castle and create similar rubbings to…

The Nursery children had lots of fun last week in both the indoor and outdoor provision.

This week in art and craft club the children made mobiles based on a theme of their choice. They practised their drawing, colouring and cutting skills whilst making them.

In year 1 this morning we have been shopping for different items.  We shopped for items priced between 10p and 50p using coins to make the amounts.  We then took our shopping to the till and the cashier checked our money was correct. 

The girls’ cricket team thoroughly enjoyed their matches against other local schools yesterday, winning 2 out of 3 games. 

We said a fond fairwell to our tadpoles today.  Becca has taken them back to the pond at Florence Arts Centre as they were developing both front and back legs.  We can visit the pond to see how they are getting on a little later in the year.

Year 2 haven been learning about the history of their local area and how it links to other parts of the world. They learnt about how slaves from Africa were bought and sold. 

Year 2 enjoyed learning about how Whitehaven is connected to Africa at The Rum Story museum today. 

Year 6 were joined by their parents for an afternoon creating Holy Spirit doves. The children enjoyed teaching their families about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and showing off their beautiful work and learning in their R.E. books. 

Year 6 have enjoyed learning about the 32 countries involved in the World Cup. They have plotted the countries on a world map and used our class atlases to research each country’s flag. The classroom was a riot of colour and paint as we enjoyed a morning of flag painting!

As part of their topic on Africa and preparation for their trip to The Rum Story tomorrow, Year 2 re-enacted how squashed the slaves must have felt on the slave ships. 

We had great fun making sensory bottles. We loved choosing all the glitter and sparkles to go inside them. We were really pleased with how they looked at the end.