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Photo's from when we were in school to cheer you up!

Some of you brought workbooks home on the last day of term. If you go onto the school website-curriculum-useful links and you'll see lots of options for homework. Everyone has a Purple Mash login (front page of their reading record books) and can send homework to me via this. 6 children have…

Last Friday, Year 3 and some of Year 4 used watercolour paints to illustrate a beautiful sunset. It was lovely having a mix of children working together on their art. Here is the display of their finished work outside Year 3.

Reception and Year 1 are using oil pastels, graphite and chalk to draw pictures of flowers. 

Following the sad news that school has to close, I have sent home booklets tonight with all the children that were in school. This week all children also received their Purple Mash login details which have been glued into the front of their reading records. If you login, I have set 'to do's' that…

This afternoon Diana from NISCU came into Y2 to talk to us about how Jesus can change people’s lives. She told us some stories from the Bible and brought some puppets with her. We enjoyed doing actions to the stories and acting some out.

As part of our Year 1 Design and Technology work we have been trying different fruits. This week we had to cut, taste, feel and smell; grapes, kiwis, apples and bananas. We also had to research interesting facts about these fruits as well. 

As part of our 'Journeys and transport' theme, the children have been building all different types of vehicles in our outdoor classroom. We've had cars and trucks and a fabulous helicopter! What a creative Reception class we have! All aboard...!

As part of our topic on rivers, we have been using atases to find some of the world's most famous rivers. From the Ganges to the Amazon, from the Nile to the Yangtze, the children have been looking where they are and what countries they flow through (from source to river mouth). Next will be to…

On Tuesday 11th March, Year 3 went to the Liverpool World Museum. We had great fun exploring the different floors of the museum and the workshop was fascinating. There were so many different artefacts from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.

Year 6 are enjoying their University of Cumbria sporting sessions!

From fitness to collaborative games, they did it all and had a whale of a time too!

Reception were incredibly busy on World Book Day today! We wrapped up books for Pre School children to find then four fabulous reception readers walked over to Pre School with Ms Gardner and Mrs Parker and hid the books in their outdoor area..In class we made book covers for our favourite books…