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6 February 2020

Year 4 Bikeability 2020

Well done to everyone in Year 4 who completed their Level 1 cycling proficiency this afternoon. Everyone in Year 4 have been practising their cycling skills in preparation for today and they all deserve commendation for their determination and resilience.

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5 February 2020

Year 4 Whinlatter Forest Trip 2020 Part 2

Year 4 enjoyed using their core strength and balance skills outside in the natural environment. They had lots of fun together, supporting each other and finding different ways to develop key skills and overcome challenges. 

 

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5 February 2020

Year 4 Whinlatter Forest Trip 2020

What a wonderful day Year 4 had at Whinlatter Forest! We learnt lots about mountain environments as we walked around in the fresh air investigating our local environment. 

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4 February 2020

Shapes

We have had lots of fun going on shape treasure hunts.  We then made shapes out of pasta and marshmallows - it was a sticky, tricky business but we really enjoyed it and we learnt all the shape names.  We even tried to make a circle from the pasta but soon realised the pasta needed to be soft to…

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30 January 2020

Year 2 Maths

Today Year 2 have been using counters to make arrays to help them in their understanding of multiplication.

 

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30 January 2020

Y1 Make e-books

Over the past few weeks Year 1 have been using their computing lessons to create their own e-books. The children have created their own images, animated them and added sounds.  Along with this they have added text to accompany their stories.  All this has been created using Purple Mash the…

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30 January 2020

Y1 Number Bonds

Today we worked number bonds to 10.  We supported our learning by using Numicon to self check our calculations.  Some groups also used Play-Doh to explore all the possible number bonds combinations to 10.  We then enjoyed using our understanding to extend to number bonds to 20.…

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29 January 2020

Year 4 Cockermouth Mountain Rescue

What a fabulous morning Year 4 had at Cockermouth Mountain Rescue. We learnt lots about what an important job the Mountain Rescue Team, including Bess the Sheepdog, do to keep us safe whilst enjoying our local mountains (fells). A huge thank you to Derek and Tom who made us feel very welcome and…

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28 January 2020

Super Spanish Speaking

We really enjoyed learning how to count and ask people how they are in Spanish. We had some paired conversations in Spanish too!

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28 January 2020

Fancy footwork in football ⚽️ today

We had great fun practising our footwork in football today!

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24 January 2020

Workshop from the West Cumbria Rivers Trust

As part of our Science work on living things and their habitats, Cathy from the West Cumbria Rivers Trust came in and did a workshop about the living things that are found in rivers. The children learned facts about different animals that live in and along our rivers. We played games to find out…

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22 January 2020

Y1 Self-Portraits

 

 

 This afternoon we learnt about the techniques involved in creating a self-portrait.  We used photos of ourselves to allow us to focus on our features.  Some of the self-portraits still need finishing touches but what a fantastic effort from…

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