Year 3 asked: Why do we have muscles?
We have been learning all about a healthy lifestyle, food and exercise. We have studied the 3 main functions of our skeleton, to protect, support and help movement. We now know that we have 3 different types of muscle, they move in different ways and have different function. Some muscles move…
Y6 using proportion to create self-portraits
Year 6 have been learning how to draw self-portraits in their art and design topic of drawing. They learnt how to use their sketching pencils effectively to create cross-hatching to form the illusion of light and shade. They then considered the proportion of their facial features.
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Rivers Workshop pt2
This afternoon, we learned more about the river as a habitat and played a game using a key to help us guess the animal. We then examined what a river needs to be healthy and what causes it to be unhealthy; we became conservationists and rangers, discussing ways to solve problems. Finally, we used…
Rivers Workshop pt1
We have had a great morning using our knowledge and vocabulary about rivers in various activities and learned new facts. We built a river using objects in the classroom and labelled it, we used a map of our local area to find nearby rivers and other river environment features and we got to handle…
Theatre by the Lake
What a wonderful experience we all had today at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick! Year 4 went to watch the World Premiere production of ‘A Little Princess’, which is a new adaptation of the much-loved children’s classic ‘The Secret Garden’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett. We all had favourite parts e.g.…
Nursery Maths: Shapes
This week in Nursery we have been identifying and sorting shapes. We have been focusing on squares, triangles and circles.
We have also learnt that some shapes have straight sides like a square and a triangle and other shapes are round like a circle.
Year 3 enjoy a Theatre experience
Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed their trip to the theatre to enjoy a diverse story about an Indian girl who loved to tell stories and the hardships that she faced.
we had ice-cream, lunch, dancing and cheering. A wonderful day out!
Friendship disco time in Reception
It was disco time in Reception and the children had a great time dancing, playing games and having a few snacks. They danced their socks off!
Dancing with scarves in Reception
In Reception we have been learning to move using our feelings. How would you move if you were happy, excited, sad or angry? We then played some different types of music and the children moved using scarves to enhance their movements. There were high and low movements and fast and slow movements.…
Friendship Disco Year 5
Year 5 had a great time with their friends at our annual ‘Friendship Disco’ as part of ‘Anti-Bullying Week.’ They enjoyed dancing to their favourite songs and then chilling out chatting with each other enjoying some refreshments.
Y6 Footballers
Some of our Y6 boys attended a football tournament at Whitehaven Academy. They returned u beaten and didn’t concede any goals at all. Amazing team work and effort!
Friendship Disco Y4
What a wonderful time everyone had at the Friendship Disco! Lots of dancing and fun with friends.