Year 3 Trip to The Roman Senhouse Museum
Year 3 had a great time at The Roman Senhouse Museum in Maryport today. They thoroughly enjoyed exploring Roman artefacts, altars, original jars, jewellery and coins from 2,000 years ago. They saw the remains of a Roman Fort and role-played market day in the Roman Forum. Some were citizens, some…
Year 2 Visit to the Whitehaven Museums
As part of a history topic on the history of Whitehaven, the Year 2 children visited the Beacon Museum then later moved on to The Rum Story. Alan from the Beacon Museum showed them some of the artefacts that have been found in Whitehaven from the past including some materials that came from the…
Nursery: Empty and Full
This week our older Nursery children have been using the water tray in Maths to learn about full and empty.
We also talked about when a container is light or heavy. Lots of children were able to fill a container until it was full and tell us it was heavy. We saw some excellent team work form the…
Y1 Visit Pony Pals Lakeland
Year 1 were invited to visit Lexi’s farm at Pickett Howe. Lexi’s mum Sam also runs ‘Pony Pals Lakeland’ where she offers Equine human therapy sessions. Year 1 walked up to the farm and had the best time. They loved grooming the ponies, helping to muck out and even decorating the ponies with…
Year 4 Rounders Practice
This morning Yr4 took part in some rounders practice. They practiced different throwing techniques, learning the best throw to cover a greater distance as well as a good bowling throw.
The children then practiced some team games putting the techniques into practice and learning the different…
Nursery: Solar System Cupcakes
Continuing with our topic ‘From Another Planet’, we have been baking some cupcakes to decorate to look like the planets in Space.
We had lots of eager children want to decorate their cupcake like our planet - Earth. They were very good at recognising the colours they needed to make planet being…
Nursery: ‘From Another Planet’
This week in Nursery we have started our new topic ‘From Another Planet’. The children have loved playing in the space station and looking at different planets in our messy tray learning about space.
Then the children created their own planets and rockets.
Reception Easter egg hunt 2024
Reception took part in an Easter egg hunt and ran around our outdoor area looking for chocolate eggs. They found plastic eggs filled with chocolate, chocolate foil eggs and even marshmallow bunnies. Lots of fun even in the rain!
Nursery: Seeds to Plants
At the start of the half term we planted some seeds. We learnt all about what a seed needs to grow. We put this into practice and we were very pleased to say that some of our seeds have grown and were taken home today!
Year 3 Karate Crazy
Year 3 are crazy about karate now. They learnt lots of new moves: kicks, punches as well as lots of fun. Their taster session left many wanting more.
Nursery: Inspired by Piet Mondrian
This week we have been inspired by the artist Piet Mondrian. We had a go at decorating some Easter eggs using the colours and patterns that he used too! We loved using lots of different tools to paint with!
Chicks, chicks and more chicks
Our Reception chicks have been growing and growing each day and are now free to explore. They love eating greens and toast and we have been learning how to look after them including giving them food and clean water.