Blog by Tag: Curriculum enrichment

What a super morning we have had for Sports Day. The children waited their turn very patiently before having a go at all the races.

The children, ran, jumped, ran backwards, went through hoops and had a go at the egg and spoon race! 

Well done everyone! 

Our younger Nursery children loved…

Reception started our topic of ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ by going on a trip to St Bee’s beach. We explored the beach looking for crabs, pebbles and shells. We even found some crab legs! The children had fun climbing on the rocks, looking in rock pools and splashing in the waves. We then had an ice…

Year 6 made their final visit to Egremont Library with their peers from St. Bridget’s today. They demonstrated that they now know how to independently return, renew and borrow new books from their local library; skills that will prove invaluable as they move to their next stage of education. 
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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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! 
 

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!