Blog by Tag: Curriculum enrichment

Year 4 went to Ennerdale to investigate their local river, the River Ehen. We started with a treasure hunt to find examples of living organisms in a river habitat, with a few challenges thrown in. We then behaved like topographers and used symbols to create our own technical drawing of a section…

In Reception we read the story of ‘Zog’ the dragon who wanted to win golden stars from his school for being the best at roaring, flying and breathing fire. We went on a trip to Whinlatter to find Zog in the forest. We found him in the trees and the magic golden stars we found gave us magic…

This afternoon, we learned more about the river as a habitat and played a game using a key to help us guess the animal. We then examined what a river needs to be healthy and what causes it to be unhealthy; we became conservationists and rangers, discussing ways to solve problems. Finally, we used…

We have had a great morning using our knowledge and vocabulary about rivers in various activities and learned new facts. We built a river using objects in the classroom and labelled it, we used a map of our local area to find nearby rivers and other river environment features and we got to handle…

What a wonderful experience we all had today at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick! Year 4 went to watch the World Premiere production of ‘A Little Princess’, which is a new adaptation of the much-loved children’s classic ‘The Secret Garden’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett. We all had favourite parts e.g.…

Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed their trip to the theatre to enjoy a diverse story about an Indian girl who loved to tell stories and the hardships that she faced. 
we had ice-cream, lunch, dancing and cheering. A wonderful day out!
 

It was disco time in Reception and the children had a great time dancing, playing games and having a few snacks. They danced their socks off! 
 

Year 5 had a great time with their friends at our annual ‘Friendship Disco’ as part of ‘Anti-Bullying Week.’ They enjoyed dancing to their favourite songs and then chilling out chatting with each other enjoying some refreshments. 
 

What a wonderful time everyone had at the Friendship Disco! Lots of dancing and fun with friends. 

We all had a great time at our Friendship Disco to celebrate anti-bullying week. It was lovely to see everyone having so much fun together!

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Year 3 enjoyed hot chocolate, cream and marshmallows whilst watching a Christmas movie. The perfect end to their busy week. A well deserved treat after OFSTED visitors were blown away by the exemplary behaviour of all children and their hard working attitudes. Well done wonderful children.

This week we have started to learn a little bit about Diwali. We have learnt that it is the Hindu festival of light.
We have been looking at Rangoli patterns. We noticed that they were often in a circular shape. 
We had a go at creating our own Rangoli patterns using the shapes on our light…