Blog by Tag: Curriculum enrichment

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…

This afternoon Year One visited Egremont Library. We enjoyed finding out all about the library, sharing books, choosing a book to borrow and listening to some exciting stories read by Mrs Bond. We really enjoyed looking at all the wonderful books and are very excited to read our new books when we…

As part of our history topic about our local area, Year 6 visited Egremont Castle. After our picninc lunch, we explored the area finding all aspects about the castle that we have been learning about in class e.g. motte and bailey, The Horn of Egremont. 

As part of our local history topic, Year 6 walked to their local iron ore mine to learn more about the influence of mining in their locality. They noticed how ‘red’ parts of the area is and recalled the ‘red men of Cumbria’. During our visit, we saw and handled some real authentic objects from…

This week some of our children have enjoyed looking in the mirror and then using different loose materials to create their very own self portrait. 

Year 6 enjoyed enhancing their knowledge about electricity during their workshop from Electricity Northwest. They got involved in lots of practical activities and tested their own own theories about electricity.