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Year 6 enjoyed their break before coming back to school full of energy and excitement.

They even had the time of their lives as Mrs Rush, our student teacher, tested their time reading skills!  They didn't have a second to waste!

This week we’ve been reading and exploring Chapter one in our English lessons and today we watched the opening scene of the film The Iron Giant. In groups we used hoops to create a Venn Diagram and we worked together to put them in the correct place.

Six girls in Year 5 have produced an amazing display about TV producer Amy Hargreaves’s ready to share at the International Women’s Day convention at the University of Cumbria on Monday.

We had our first ukulele lesson today. We learned how to strum, pluck and fret chords, and it was only our first lesson!

As part of our new RE topic, we have been learning about Lent. Lent is the time when we are preparing for Easter. Lent starts with Shrove Tuesday when people eat pancakes. We had our own pancakes to celebrate the start of a new church season.

This week in Science, Year 1 have been using magnifying glasses to look at parts of flowers. They then drew a diagram of their flower and labelled the petals, stem, and leaves. 

Today, Year 4 were delighted to welcome the comic artist, Kev F Sutherland  who led a workshop on comic art. During the workshop, Kev modelled how to create comic characters and how to draw a comic strip. He worked with us to create our own class comic, including a comic portrait of every child in…

Year 2 have had a fantastic afternoon measuring. The children had to choose between tape measures, rulers and trundle wheels to measure different objects. The team work and mathematical conversations were great to be a part of! Lots of fun and learning has happened in Year 2 today.

In PE this half term, Year 1 have been practicing underarm and overarm throwing. We have discussed that overarm throwing is used when we need to throw for distance and underarm throwing is utilised when we want to throw accurately. We have been applying theses skills and knowledge in small group…

Year 3 have had such a fun today, We enjoyed some crafts this morning - we did some cave painting under the table and we made some clay pots. Then this afternoon we enjoyed watching some of Stig of the Dump and looking at some Stone Age artefacts that we lent from the Library! We’ve had a great…

Year 6 had an excellent day dressing up like Ancient Egyptians!

We learnt all about how to mummify a body, preparing it for a journey to the afterlife, as well as exploring King Tutankhamun's tomb in VR and making 3D sarcophaguses in gold!

Everyone looked great and worked really hard on…

Six girls in Year Five have been chosen to represent the school at the International Women’s Day convention at the University of Cumbria. As part of this, they have been teamed up with an inspirational female role model. On Thursday the girls were able to interview Amy Hargreaves’s who is a…