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Year 5 has a great time at Forest School today. They enjoyed lying in the hammocks, climbing trees and sawing wood in preparation for making a Christmas tree!

A huge well done to all the children who ran in the XC Challenge at St. Benedict’s School today. It was a very muddy and wet 2k course but they all persevered and carried on despite the conditions. Congratulations to Jonah who got a course record of 8 .41 and to Faith for being the first girl…

Year 5 enjoyed meeting all the animals from Pet Encounters. They held Java and Noodle the snakes and learnt that they aren’t actually slimy! Henry the parrot was a huge hit with his hilarious repertoire of noises and words. We all had a look at the tarantula and tried to spot the chameleon…

Today we had a special visit from Pet encounters who brought some of their lovely animals to see us. There was Henry the Parrrot, a snake, a tarantula, Cheese the mouse and Romeo and Juliet the cockroaches. Lots of children were very brave and held or stroked the animals. What fab visitors to have…

Year 1 enjoyed voting in their first School Election. Those who volunteered to be candidates gave speeches to explain why they would make good councillors. We then held a vote and used an ‘X’ on the voting slips to make our choices. Year 6 helped to organise the voting. The votes were counted and…

Year 1 enjoyed their visit to Egremont Library. Tracey the Librarian explained how we can use our cards to borrow books. We explored different book choices before choosing one to take home. We enjoyed a class story time together and then checked out our books. Thank you Tracey we will look forward…

Thank you to The Brilliant Cumbria initiative for organising a pet Encounters to visit today. We enjoyed being challenged to face our fears and to learn about the animals.  We were all very brave and had so much fun. Thank you to Pet Encounters.
 

We really enjoyed our encounter with birds, snakes, tarantulas, cockroaches, mice and a chameleon. 
The children were very brave and had a go at holding the animals. It was great fun.

In science Year 5 have been making a solution using water and salt. They learnt the terms solute, solvent and solution. They looked at the water when they first added the salt then stirred it and compared how it had changed. They realised that the salt had combined with the water to make a…

This week we have been finding out about our families. 

We used family photos to help us create our pebble families, showing who we lived with. We also talked about the members of our family who live in different houses to us.
We then talked about our names and how they were unique and special…

Today Year 2 explored this year’s Youth Mental Health Day theme of being brave. They watched the ‘Feeling Better: Brave’ video and discussed times that they have had to be brave. Then they created their own brave poses like the children in the video.

As part of Youth Mental Health Day, Year 4 have been exploring what it means to be brave. They then shared examples of times when they have had to be brave.