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There were some interesting characters in Year 4 today. Can you guess the character?

Y6 enjoyed a day of books and fun on World Book Day this year. As well as dressing up in costumes from their favourite books they spent the afternoon sharing books with the children in Y1. 

Year 3 had a fantastic day on the 3rd of March, World Book Day. They were very busy writing book reviews, designing book covers, discussing their favourite books and characters and then enjoyed a cosy read with the children from Reception. A great day

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten period leading up to Easter, when Jesus died and was resurrected. The ashes symbolize both death and repentance. During this period, we say sorry for our sins, because Christ died for us.  We gathered together in school today to receive our ashes and…

Y6’s Design and Technology topic this term asked the question: How string is a piece of spaghetti? The children refined their engineering and design skills by experimenting with ways to make the strongest type of structures to hold a selection of weights. They discovered that strong bases and…

Year 4 have been testing a range of materials to find out if they are a conductor or insulator of electricity. 
 

Year 4 have been learning about how to create an electrical circuit. 
 

Year 5 have been learning all about space and earth. They have researched information about planets in our solar system and designed their own planets. Today Jeremy Hunt, a local astronomer, came to school to give a talk all about the stars. The children all leant lots of new facts and Matthew was…

This week the Year 2 children used a range of media to make a variety of marks and lines to create artwork of waves. They were inspired by the artwork of Beth Krommes who uses a range of lines and marks in her drawings and etchings.

Today Year 2 have been exploring this year’s theme ‘Growing Together’. They talked about their goals for growing emotionally then created support balloons to show the people who support them in the good times and the other times, so they can grow emotionally.

This week year 1 have been learning about mental health.  What mental health means; how we can be kind to ourselves and others.  We made some ‘Kindness Cups’ and helped to fill our classmates cups with kind words. We all really enjoyed this. It was a great feeling to read and listen to what our…

Year 5 have had a fantastic week doing Cyclewise. They have learnt lots of new skills including how to turn in and out of junctions safely. They have had lots of fun cycling around Egremont putting these skills into practice.