St. Francis Day in Year 1
Today Year 1 celebrated the life of St. Francis. They learned about what made him special. Year 1 created their own animal stick puppets to celebrate his love of animals and nature.
Year 2 Celebrate St Francis’s Feast Day 2024
Year 2 celebrated St Francis’ Feast Day with a class prayer and liturgy focused on him and what the Bible says about caring for animals. The children spent time finding out all about his life and the good works that he did. They found out that he is the patron saint of animals and loving and…
Year 5 Celebrate St. Francis
Year 5 have been learning all about St. Francis. They learnt all about his life and that he is the patron saint of animals, merchants and ecology. They listened to St. Francis’ prayer then wrote their own prayers asking him to help people take more care of our planet and animals so they don’t…
Year 4 St Francis of Assisi Feast Day
In Year 4 to celebrate the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, we spent time to learn about his life. We then created stained class windows and wrote our own prayers linked to celebrating the universe. Finally, the children planned and delivered their own liturgy with the theme of ‘Looking after…
Laudato Si Group Celebrate St. Francis’ Day
As it is St. Francis’ feast day our Laudato Si group put some bird feeders in our grounds. We remembered the words of Saint Francis that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life.
Nursery Celebrate St Francis
Today Nursery have been learning about St Francis. We looked at different pictures of St Francis and noticed that he was often surrounded by birds.
The children had a go at threading some cheerios onto a pipe cleaner and pegged them into the tree for the birds to eat. I wonder what birds we…
Sports Councillors 2024
Meet our new Sports Councillors for 2024 voted in by Y5. Their job is to attend School Council meetings and discuss how we can improve sports in our school. Their first tasks are to find out what sports equipment the children would like for playtimes so we can update it, what after school clubs…
Year 3 study Rocks
Year 3 have been learning about different types of rocks, metamorphic,sedimentary and igneous. They have sorted different rocks into these groups, studied them and drawn them. Great observations Year 3
Y1 Whinlatter Workshop
Year 1 spent a wonderful sunny day at Whinlatter. They enjoyed a seasons workshop with Ruth. It was lots of fun exploring the forest for signs of Autumn. They enthusiastically looked for wildlife and signs of their habitats. Year 1 enjoyed their packed lunches with a stunning view before creating…
Year 5 Garden Work
Year 5 have had a busy morning working on our new garden. They have levelled out the area to be seeded with grass, put down the grass seeds and watered it. They have transported all the compost into the flower boxes and sorted and labelled the plants. They learnt the difference between top soil…
Rivers Workshop in Year 2 2024
Emma from West Cumbria Rivers Trust came into Year 2 to deliver a rivers workshop as part of their science unit of work. The children found out which animals and plants live in their local river and at Longlands Lake. They worked together to create a river habitat and used branching databases to…