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17 February 2023

Reception at the obstacle course competition

Some of our Reception children went to St Benedict's and took part in an obstacle course competition with some other schools. The children had to use their balance, agility and team work skills to complete the course. They took part in lots of different ways to exercise and learned new skills.…

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16 February 2023

Climate Zones

Year 4 have been learning how to use lines of latitude to determine the climate of a region. They used an atlas to find at leat one country in each different climate zone. 
 

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15 February 2023

Gymnastics skills in Reception

While half of our class went to a sports competition, the other children practised their gymnastics skills from this half term on the apparatus. We used skills such as balancing, jumping and climbing. The children have been perfecting their skills over the last few weeks and have really built up…

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14 February 2023

Valentines in Nursery

This week we have been celebrating valentines in Nursery. We have created our own Valentines cards using heart confetti and a heart shaped hole punch to creat love bugs. We have also been baking some valentines biscuits. We used butter, sugar and flour to create a shortbread dough. We then rolled…

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14 February 2023

Y6 Rum Story and Whitehaven Harbour

Y6 had a great day out discovering more about the history of slavery and the sugar trade at the Rum Story.  They learnt about the wealthy Jefferson family who traded from their office in Whitehaven and used the sugar which was farmed by slaves on plantations in Antigua to make rum. After looking…

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10 February 2023

Children’s Mental Health Week 2023

This year’s Children’s Mental Health Week theme is ‘Let’s Connect’. The children have been thinking about the connections they make. The children worked together in small groups to connect and make models by connecting pieces together. We reflected on what it feels like to connect together and…

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10 February 2023

Year 1 Visit Bowness-on-Windermere

Year 1 enjoyed an action packed day in Bowness-on-Windermere. First, we visited The World of Beatrix Potter. In English we have been reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit so it was amazing to learn more about the author and the other stories she created. We enjoyed getting up close with the different…

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10 February 2023

Safer Internet Day 2022

We have been learning about the importance of taking time to talk about life online. We discussed what worries us, what we should do about it and if we had the power to fix one online safety issue what would it be and how would we do it. 
 

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10 February 2023

Year 4’s Spring Term Library Visit

Year 4 enjoyed their visit to their local library. They are becoming increasingly independent by returning books themselves and withdrawing their next book to read. 

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10 February 2023

Internet Safety Day 2023 Year 4

Year 4 have been learning about who they can inform and talk to when they experience something suspicious or unpleasant online. 

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10 February 2023

Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

Today we wore bright coloured clothes to mark the end of Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme this year was ‘Let’s Connect’. We discussed how making connections with our friends, family, pets, neighbours and community can help with our mental health. These connections can make us feel…

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10 February 2023

We are all connected

As it was Mental Health Awareness week we read the story of, 'The Invisible String' in Reception, which is about how we are all connected by invisible strings to the people we love. The children then said who they were connected to. We played a game of passing a hoop around the circle without…

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