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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…

Today, Father John visited Year 4 to talk about the Sacrament of the Sick, to support our learning in R.E.. Father John showed us the oil he uses and talked through what happens when he gives the Sacrament of the Sick to someone. This is a sacrament of healing and brings spiritual healing and…

As part of our Safer Internet Day learning, today Year 4 were learning about positive and negative uses of A.I. and they suggested some tips for using A.I. safely. All children understood the importance of not sharing personal details online and telling a trusted adult if anything online,…

We enjoyed an afternoon walk to Williamson park to visit the Raku sculpture. We took our art books with us to do some sketching and then we had a play on the park. We had lots of fun and managed to miss the rain!

 

Year 2 have had a wonderful day. It all started with planning and designing their own pizzas. After lunch they all had the opportunity to use vegetables to makes and cook their very own pizza. It was the best pizza ever according to some members of the class. 
 

Reception had the best time using their gross motor skills at the park this afternoon. We were running, climbing, swinging and sliding. Even though it was a bit cold, we all enjoyed ourselves ... and we should sleep well tonight!

Just like the other years, Year 6 had an excellent time perfection their pencil-case personification with author Sean Perkins.

Today we had a visit from author Sean Perkins. He came to class and we took part in the silly pie workshop. We had a fun time learning the rhyming silly pie song and then creating our own silly pies filled with rhyming words.

Year 4 enjoyed their visit from the author, Sean Perkins, today. He helped us to see classroom objects as characters with their own personalities and the children developed their own ideas from this to create characters for pencils, rulers, glue sticks and even the whiteboard!

Today, we had a very exciting visitor in school. The author Sean Perkins came to visit the school. This morning, Sean read the school one of his amazing stories and this afternoon Year 1 and Year 2 took part in an imagination workshop. They all designed a tree house for a character to live…