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Year One have had a great few days learning to 1/2 shapes and amounts.  We have spent today halving amounts of cubes and writing it into a calculation. 

Congratulations to this half term’s reading stripe winners who have read at least five times a week for the last eight weeks! Everyone else who had earned some reading stripes over the last eight weeks got a sweet as a reward. Let’s see if everyone can earn more reading stripes over the next half…

Nursery celebrated the end of their Pirate and Princess topic with a dress up day and party. We had party food and played party games and the children came as a Pirate or a Princess. What a super day!

Reception visited the ‘Time To Get Up’ exhibition at The Beacon today. Alan told us the story ‘The Smartest Giant’ then we explored all the activities in the exhibition. We had great fun dressing up, role playing, problem solving, drawing, writing and playing musical…

Y4 enjoyed taking part in the  Keepie Uppie Challenge to see who could hit the tennis ball the most number of times without dropping it. The record was 352! 

Congratulations to Emma who won the Free Flow flag competition for the harbour. As a result, we enjoyed a trip to the harbour master’s office to see the flag being hoisted up for for the first time. We learnt all about how boats come in and out of if the harbour and finished the morning off with a…

In Nursery we have been talking about who our best friends are. The Nursery children drew their best friend for our Nursery gallery display. Some of the children even gave of a description of why someone was their best friend. 

Nursery had a lovely teacher from another school and her son come into class to show us their stick insect, ‘Betty Sammy’. The children were taught about what a stick insect eats and drinks and how to look after it. We were then given some stick insect eggs to look after, in the hope that they…

Reception had lots of fun in the sun this afternoon learning some basic cricket skills from some members of the Egremont Cricket Club. Afterwards they found out more about the sport in an interactive assembly.

This week Reception have been exploring the school grounds to look for minibeasts. They used their observation skills to identify what they found.

Year 4 enjoyed learning new tennis skills with Dan. They learnt how to hold the racket correctly, how to serve and enjoyed playing a few games.

Today we released our butterflies after four weeks of nurturing them from baby caterpillars to cocoons then finally to butterflies. We have learned so much from watching them grow, develop and change.