Blog by Tag: Curriculum enrichment

Year 3 have been busy thinking about who makes them happy and why. They have written letters to thank people who make them feel good. They watched a video about pupil voice, everyone matters and understood what makes them happy and why. 

Year 6 are now a fountain of information about the history of Whitehaven Harbour, from sea traders, pirates and smugglers to invaders and a very old pub that could well have saved Whitehaven from extinction. 
 

As part of their history topic, Year 6 have been learning about Britain's connections to the slave trade and the Caribbean and its impact on trade and commerce. The Rum Story tells the story of how Whitehaven was once a bustling seaport connected to the Jefferson-owned estate in Antigua and…

Year 2 had a wonderful time browsing through all the books on offer on the library and today. They choose a good selection of fiction, non- fiction and poetry. They couldn’t wait to take them back to class and read them.

This week our younger children have loved reading the story ‘I want to be …a Doctor’ and using the role play equipment pretending to be a doctor. Our older children loved joining in and helping them too.

After all the snow fell during the night, Reception came into school and had fun in the snow! They made a snowman together and added features, such as a carrot for a nose and a hat and gloves. They had snowball fights and explored the snow and ice too. We were very cold after and warmed up with a…

What a lovely snow day we have had this morning! We have made snow angels, snowmen and had snow ball fights. We loved warming up with a hot chocolate at snack time. 
 

Year 3 had a fantastic time consolidating and learning about the Stone Age to the Iron Age. They had great fun taking part in axe making, copper art engraving, timeline construction, studying artefacts, Hunter gathering, making fire, examining poo and animal skulls.

On Friday it was Christmas Jumper Day! Everyone in Nursery came to school dressed in their most festive Christmas outfit! 
We also had a very special visitor in school. Santa came to visit all our children and he brought with him a very special treat - a chocolate selection box! 
We loved…

What a fabulous morning we had dressed as elves for our Nursery Christmas Sing a long. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! 

Afterwards, we enjoyed elf face painting, dancing and some party games.
A huge thank you to Miss Dougan and Miss Lawson for their amazing face painting…

Today the Year 2 children performed their Christmas play for the whole school in the morning then for their families in the afternoon. All the children have been working hard to learn all the songs and lines. Both audiences were dazzled and amazed by the beautiful singing and dancing. What a…

Our fabulous Reception class gave their best performance of our nativity, Toby’s Christmas Drum. They sang and did all the actions and spoke very loud if they had a line. We are so proud of them!