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Year 4 visit to Heron Corn Mill
Year 4 visited Heron Corn Mill on Friday 20th October to learn about how the mill was powered and how gears work. During the visit, we completed lots of activities which made us think of how machines are powered and made. We worked together in teams to create machines that used cogs and gears and…
Posted by Nicola Holt on 23 October 2017
Category: Year 4 Blog
Frank English visit
Year 4 walked to the library to talk to Frank English. He is a children's author who lives in Heysham. At the library we asked lots of questions and foudn out about him. Frank told us lots of stories about his life before being an author and then shared how he writes his books. Did you know that…
Posted by Nicola Holt on 16 October 2017
Category: Headteacher Blog
Year 2 walk to Williamson Park
Today Year 2 enjoyed a lovely autumn walk in Williamson Park. We found lots of clues that is it definitely autumn - see our class gallery for more photos.
Posted by Nicola Holt on 10 October 2017
Category: Year 2 Blog
Refugee Workshop
To support the work we have being doing for Refugee Week, today the children took part in a wonderful workshop led by Mr Finnerty from Global Link and Mohammad from Syria. The children learnt more about why people become refugees and heard firsthand about some of the difficulties encountered when…
Posted by Claire Dickinson on 21 June 2017
Category: Year 4 Blog
Year 4 Visit to Castlerigg Manor
Year 4 enjoyed a wonderful visit to Castlerigg Manor where they learnt how to work together as a team and reflected on how the gifts of the Holy Spirit help us to follow Jesus. Look at the slideshow of photos below.
Posted by Claire Dickinson on 7 June 2017
Category: Year 4 Blog
Year 4 Art Day at Lancaster University
Year Four had a great day at Lancaster University today. We visited the Engineering Department where we watched a 3-D printer in action, tried out a 3-D pen and saw a robot. This was followed by a visit to the Creative Arts Department where we participated in a movement and dance sessionon the…
Posted by Claire Dickinson on 10 May 2017
Category: Year 4 Blog
A Musical Visitor
In class we have been learning about the instruments in the orchestra. Mr Lowe came to school to talk to us about brass instruments. He brought some instruments for us to look at and listen to. He explained how the instruments worked and let us try to play them. It was good fun
Posted by Fiona Lowe on 3 May 2017
Category: Year 3 Blog
Easter Celebrations
We had a lovely celebration assembly today. Lots of children had put a lot of effort into decorating eggs and making beautiful Easter hats. There were a lot of Easter egg winners in our Grand Easter Raffle too. This was a super follow-up to our Easter reflection yesterday afternoon where we…
Posted by Claire Dickinson on 12 April 2017
Category: Headteacher Blog
Stations of the Cross
Our CAFOD group led each class through the Stations of the Cross. Each class had the opportunity to learn about the Stations, reflect and pray. It was well planned and beautifully led by the children. Thank you to Mrs Parker and Mrs Holt for supporting the group with their planning of this very…
Posted by Kelly Hannah on 12 April 2017
Category: Headteacher Blog
Silver Fish for CAFOD
Thank you to everyone who has generously donated their silver change to our CAFOD collection. Today the charity committee used the coins to make this huge silver fish to fit with the CAFOD project, 'Turn little fish into big fish'. See the CAFOD website at www.cafod.org.uk/primary for more…
Posted by Claire Dickinson on 29 March 2017
Category: Headteacher Blog
Extreme Reading at Cathedral Primary School
Thank you to all our families who entered our Extreme Reading challenge-you are all winners in our eyes! Click below to see how amazing our children are at extreme reading...
Posted by Shiralee Grierson on 3 March 2017
Category: Headteacher Blog
Pilkington pottery workshop
We had a wonderful morning learning all about pottery and how the university were creating 3D images using a 3D scanner. It was fascinating to see real life objects being created into 3D objects. We all designed our own pot with details inspired by Pilkington and did some observational drawing.…
Posted by Nicola Holt on 2 March 2017
Category: Year 4 Blog
Tags: Y4 , Art & Music