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What talent we have in our school! This poem was written at home for pleasure. Not only does it rhyme, it contains a powerful, relevant and compelling message. 

This week our older children have been reading the story - The Dot. In the story we met a little girl called Vashti who thought she couldn’t do any art. By the end of the story she discovered that she could, all she had to do was make a mark - a dot. 
We were feeling inspired by Vashti and…

This week in RE we have been learning about Welcome! 
We discussed what welcome means, lots of children said when someone comes in. We thought about the ways we feel welcome in Nursery and what we do. The children shared ideas of singing good morning songs, waving, smiling, saying hello, and…

We have lots of sporty children in our class who attend clubs after school or at weekends. Well done for developing swimming skills and for moving up into the next group.

Our Reading Ambassadors met with our Head to present the findings from their research about the provision of books in our class libraries throughout school. They were allocated a budget to buy some of the books from the wish list so they took a trip out to our local book shop to buy some new books…

This morning Y5 took part in a Lowry Art Workshop. They learnt about the artist Lowry and how he liked to paint industrial scenes of towns in the north of England including his home town Manchester. The children have made a diorama of the painting ‘Going to Work - 1943’. This will be on display in…

After reading the story, ‘Pumpkin Soup’ the children drew their favourite character, either the cat, squirrel or duck. We then talked about what feeling they showed in certain parts of the story, was it angry, sad, happy, excited or scared? The children included this on their picture and then…

In Reception we have been learning how to find, subitise and represent numbers. We went on a number hunt around school, looking for any numbers we could find. The children found them on the big yard, on classroom doors, on the lockers, clocks and the door codes. At the end the children could then…

We have lots of sporty children in our class who attend clubs after school or at weekends. Well done for developing the swimming skills and for moving up into the next group!

Year 4 are learning about the differences between processed and fresh foods. We have been comparing lists of ingredients of home made bread compared to shop bought bread. Some of us even baked bread at home from scratch to taste the difference between shop bought bread and homemade bread. Yum yum!

Year 5 have been investigating square and cube numbers. Using counters to investigate square numbers they found which numbers it was possible to make a complete square with. They found that 1, 4, 9, 16, 25,36,49 are square numbers up to 50. They soon realised that if you multiply a whole number by…

As part of their work on the Great Fire of London, Year 2 went to Whitehaven Fire Station to learn more about the fire, how the fire service was created and what the fire service is like today. Red Watch talked with the children about the Great Fire of London then showed them around the fire…