Blog by Tag: Curriculum enrichment

During Recycling Week 2024, a warning was issued highlighting that households are wasting an astonishing 1 billion items each year that could be recycled. To promote greater recycling efforts, our Laudato Si group organised a recycling poster competition. We received an amazing response from the…

Year 5 enjoyed visiting the library this morning.They all enjoyed listening to a story then got to chose a book to read. They learnt the importance of reading the blurb to check it is a book they would be interested in. If they weren’t they put the book back in the correct way with the spine…

In history Year 1 have been exploring the different shops and services within their local area. They learnt to categorise the shops with the different supplies and services they offered. They enjoyed walking down Egremont mainstreet to investigate. Next they will use this information to compare…

This week we have been reading the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Inspired by our story we have been exploring colour mixing in the Creative Area and have used the colours red and white to make pink. Then we used our pink hands to make hand prints and turn them into one of the three little…

Yesterday we wore the colour yellow to celebrate and raise money for World Mental Health Day. Our children enjoyed some face paint and an impromptu dance session with DJ Rafi. 

This week. Nursery had a go at baking some chocolate cupcakes for snack. They waited and took turns when baking them and they tasted delicious too!

Looking fabulous in yellow, Year 3 marked World Mental Health Day by giving money to support the charity. They danced, coloured in mindfully and celebrated how wonderful they are by writing about their own qualities and attributes. 
Children learnt about mental health and what it means to look…

Today Year 1 celebrated World Mental Health Day.  Year 1 shared photos of activities they enjoy doing at home to make them feel good. They shared that not everyone will enjoy the same activities and that’s ok. In class they created some mental health cards to take home to give to special people.…

We had Fran from the charity, ‘Mary’s Meals’, deliver our school assembly to tell us all about the charity. We learnt all about the great work they do with all their donations and how we could help in the future, even by just sharing their story. This is something our Ethos group will support with…

On Thursday 26th September our Well-being Group attended a Sport and Well-being Gala held by Brilliant Cumbria. They travelled to Workington RLFC where they took part in various different sporting activities like wrestling, softball, crazy catch, running and lots more! 

The children’s behaviour…

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…

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…