Valentines in Nursery
This week we have been celebrating valentines in Nursery. We have created our own Valentines cards using heart confetti and a heart shaped hole punch to creat love bugs. We have also been baking some valentines biscuits. We used butter, sugar and flour to create a shortbread dough. We then rolled…
Y6 Rum Story and Whitehaven Harbour
Y6 had a great day out discovering more about the history of slavery and the sugar trade at the Rum Story. They learnt about the wealthy Jefferson family who traded from their office in Whitehaven and used the sugar which was farmed by slaves on plantations in Antigua to make rum. After looking…
Children’s Mental Health Week 2023
This year’s Children’s Mental Health Week theme is ‘Let’s Connect’. The children have been thinking about the connections they make. The children worked together in small groups to connect and make models by connecting pieces together. We reflected on what it feels like to connect together and…
Year 1 Visit Bowness-on-Windermere
Year 1 enjoyed an action packed day in Bowness-on-Windermere. First, we visited The World of Beatrix Potter. In English we have been reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit so it was amazing to learn more about the author and the other stories she created. We enjoyed getting up close with the different…
Safer Internet Day 2022
We have been learning about the importance of taking time to talk about life online. We discussed what worries us, what we should do about it and if we had the power to fix one online safety issue what would it be and how would we do it.
Year 4’s Spring Term Library Visit
Year 4 enjoyed their visit to their local library. They are becoming increasingly independent by returning books themselves and withdrawing their next book to read.
Internet Safety Day 2023 Year 4
Year 4 have been learning about who they can inform and talk to when they experience something suspicious or unpleasant online.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Today we wore bright coloured clothes to mark the end of Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme this year was ‘Let’s Connect’. We discussed how making connections with our friends, family, pets, neighbours and community can help with our mental health. These connections can make us feel…
We are all connected
As it was Mental Health Awareness week we read the story of, 'The Invisible String' in Reception, which is about how we are all connected by invisible strings to the people we love. The children then said who they were connected to. We played a game of passing a hoop around the circle without…
Y6 and Reception celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week
Reception and Y6 shared a playtime today to celebrate the end of Children’s Mental Health week. The theme this year was “Let’s Connect’’ and our oldest children loved connecting with some of our youngest!
Y6 Healthy Choices Workshop
Y6 were joined by Leah from CADAS for a healthy living and choices workshop. They learnt about the importance of making sensible choices as they get older despite being tempted by peer pressure. Leah played games with the class which meant they had to make certain choices about different…
Y1 Digital Footprint
As part of ‘Safer Internet Day’ Year 1 learnt about what a digital footprint is. They discovered that a digital footprint is a trail that we leave behind every time we go online. We learnt that websites can record that we have visited sites. Knowing our digital footprint is part of staying…