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Year One have enjoyed practising their exercise poses in PE this week. They enjoyed some dinosaur themed ones and even learned some special calm breathing. Check out their poses!
 

We are incredibly proud of our girls who ran in the Crab Fair last night. They ran a distance of 3k and loved every minute of it. They are also our Sports Leaders and are setting a shinning example of how to keep active outside of school. Well done girls!

Reception have really enjoyed their first week at school. They have settled into their new routines and have enjoyed making friends.

This week, children have been busy campaigning to be elected to represent their class, to be the voice of their class by bringing the ideas of their class to the School Council meetings. At the end of the week, we held an election where each class was given the opportunity to vote for the…

Year 2 have been demonstrating the British Value of democracy by placing their votes in the School Council election. The children considered the skills needed to represent the class and took these in to consideration when placing their votes. They cannot wait to see who has been chosen to…

This week in Nursery we have been practising our fine motor skills. The children have been washing pigs using toothbrushes and squirting soap with soap dispensers and printing with paint and corks. Lots of practise to build up their finger and hand muscles and also lots of messy fun. 
 

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Year 1 enjoyed taking part in their first School Election. Thank you to Year 6 who helped them casting their votes. Now everyone can’t wait to find out the results! 
 

Year 6 have been learning how to draw a self-portrait. They had to consider scale and proportion then used different sketching techniques to create areas of light and dark. A great effort by everyone! 

Year 6 had their first Netball lesson today. We learned how to pass the ball using the chest pass and bounce pass. We finished off by playing a game of Time Bomb. 

Year 6 enjoyed their first cricket coaching session today. They learned how to bowl - we found it was quite tricky to keep your arm straight! We finished off with a couple of cricket games. 

In Year 4 PE this week we started our cricket unit. We focused on our over arm throwing technique to help us with bowling. We also tested our reaction times and team work skills during our cricket drills.

This week we had our first visit of the new school year to Egremont library. Here we shared stories and chose new library books…not forgetting to take back the ones we had already borrowed!