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28 September 2025

Tag Rugby Year 5

We would like to say a huge thank you to Rory’s dad, Daniel, who kindly gave up his time last week to teach us some tag rugby skills.

The children learned how to pass the ball correctly, how to catch tags, and how to score points. Everyone had a fantastic time being outside, learning new…

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28 September 2025

Being creative in Nursery

Nursery have been getting creative by gluing and sticking to make collage pictures and printing with paint and corks. We have lots of creative children, who are always very proud of their artwork. 
 

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28 September 2025

Outdoor fun in Nursery September 2025

Our Nursery children have enjoyed learning outside in September. From building towers, to mark making with chalk and jumping in puddles. Lots of opportunities to explore in different weather. 
 

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26 September 2025

Year 3 Painting techniques

Year 3 have been practicing their painting techniques and learning about how Vincent Van Gogh used impasto paint, line and blue shades to create “A Starry Night”.

They used flour to thicken their paint and then painted in the style of Van Gogh. 

 

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26 September 2025

Year 4 Performing Poetry

To conclude our poetry topic, we have been performing our haiku and cinquain poems, using actions, emphasising rhythms and changing our intonation. We certainly had some very dramatic performances!

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26 September 2025

Art in Year 5

Year 5 studied the famous painting Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh.
They looked carefully at the colours and how the flowers were drawn. They then created their own versions, using oil pastels to produce deep, vibrant colours. Everyone was very pleased with the end result.

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26 September 2025

Year 1’s History Walk in Egremont

Year 1 enjoyed exploring the shops available in Egremont mainstreet.  They were lucky to be invited into the doctors and Isaac’s gran told Year 1 all about the services available. They enjoyed pointing out their favourite shops. Next week, in our History work, we will compare the shops today with…

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25 September 2025

Reception Visit Church 2025

Reception enjoyed visiting our parish church of St. Mary’s. We talked about baptism, and they took part in role play to explore the different parts of baptism. Reception enjoyed their visit to church and were excited to find out more about baptism.
 

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24 September 2025

Year 3 map work

Year 3 were spotting human and physical features on the huge OS maps. They looked at the key to learn many new map symbols. They found lots of local areas and pointed to them using co-ordinates.

 

 

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23 September 2025

Egremont Castle 2025

Year 6 had a wonderful afternoon investigating and observing the historic site of Egremont Castle and noticing exactly why it was such a perfect position for a fort and castle. 

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23 September 2025

Florence Mine 2025

Year 6 had a lovely morning learning at Florence Mine learning about the mining industry , how it has been a huge part of the development of Egremont and inspiration to local artists.
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22 September 2025

Y2 Making Marks in Art

Year 2 have been studying the artwork of Beth Krommes in their art lessons. They have been looking carefully at how she uses a range of marks to create images from nature including waves. They thoroughly enjoyed using paint and oil pastels to create their worn version of the artwork…

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