Blog by Tag: Curriculum enrichment

A wonderful time was had by all the Infants watching the pantomime ‘Aladdin’ at the Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre. The children and adults laughed and shouted from the start to the finish. What a fantastic way to start the Christmas festivities!
 

A wonderful time was had by all the Infants watching the pantomime ‘Aladdin’ at the Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre. The children and adults laughed and shouted from the start to the finish. What a fantastic way to start the Christmas festivities!
 

A wonderful time was had by all the Infants watching the pantomime ‘Aladdin’ at the Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre. The children and adults laughed and shouted from the start to the finish. What a fantastic way to start the Christmas festivities!
 

We had a fantastic time at the theatre yesterday. We watched the magical show ‘The Jungle Book’, enjoyed ice-cream during the interval and had lunch just before we got on the bus. The actors were amazing and there were even a few puppets involved. It was great and people commented about how well…

As part of their work on the Great Fire of London, Year 2 visited Whitehaven Fire Station to find out more about the methods that were used to fight the fire and how it led to the creation of the Fire Service today. The children impressed Green Watch with their knowledge of how the fire started…

This academic year Year 5 will be fundraising for the Great North Air Ambulance. Today we had a visitor from the charity to tell us all about it. We learnt that in our area an air ambulance is never more than 25 minutes away. We were all astounded to hear that this year it will cost £9. 3 million…

Year 5 have had a great morning laying turf in our Garden of Peace. 

Year 3 marked Anti-bullying week this week by wearing odd socks to show that we are all different and unique…. and that is ok. 
This year’s theme was respect, we talked about respect and what bullying is. We talked about the many different types of bullying; cyber, verbal and physical. 
We…

Year 3 enjoyed listening to Stone Age stories and choosing books to take home. The librarian said they were the best behaved children she had ever had.

Nursery loved learning about and exploring all our different poppy stations this morning. During the minutes silence at 11am the children sat silently and watched a short animation clip called ‘Poppies’

Year 2 attended a short service at the War Memorial to commemorate Remembrance Day. The children respectfully observed a minutes silence before listening to a reading of a poem and being led in prayer by Reverend Becky. The class representatives for the Ethos Group laid a wreath before returning…

Year 5 visited the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Beacon today. They felt very privileged to view these amazing images of nature captured on camera. The Beacon is the only museum outside of the Natural History museum that is displaying these photos so it was a wonderful…