Class of 2015

Some of the Year 5 and Year 6 girls enjoyed an afternoon of fun and football with girls from St. Luke's Primary School in Skerton. Coaches from Morecambe Football Club organised a skills session for us, before we played a friendly match. Despite the wind and rain, everyone had fun and showed great…

After disappointing wet weather for our first cricket session last week, the sun shone for us today and we were able to go down to the field with Steve and his assistant coaches. We practised some striking skills as well as playing a game of Diamond Cricket. There was some very impressive batting…

What a busy day Year 6 had on World Book Day! We had some great costumes on show including Phileas Fogg, Gandalf, an Oompa Loompa, Thing One and Thing Two and a couple of Harry Potters, to name just a few!

After our whole school Book Day quiz, we returned to the classroom which had been turned…

In Year 6, we are finding out about trade at local, national and international level. We have begun to investigate where the items we buy are actually sourced or manufactured, and have been quite surprised to discover how far some of the products have travelled. We used Digimaps to measure the…

Year 6 were looking forward to their first cricket session with Coach Steve this afternoon. Unfortunately it was too wet and windy to go down to the field, so we stayed in the hall and practised a range of skills involving throwing, catching, batting and fitness. Hopefully the weather will be…

Year 6 started their celebrations for World Book Day today, by going down to the woods with Year 2 to help them solve the picture clues on our book trail.

We also shared some of our favourite stories with Year 2, which we really enjoyed and we hope they did too.

Year 6 loved learning about microorganisms in Science- who says that Playdoh is only for KS1?! We created models of different types of bacteria, fungi and viruses thinking carefully about the shapes and sizes in relation to each other. We also conducted an experiment into how yeast causes dough to…

Year 6 have been learning all about the Jewish festival of Passover this half term. They learnt how the festival is celebrated every year by Jews all over the world, to make sure they remember the time when God used Moses to rescue and free his people from slavery in Egypt. After many plagues, the…

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The athletics team had an exciting afternoon at the Lancaster schools athletics tournament today. Although they didn’t win a medal, they showed great skill, perseverance and a positive attitude throughout. Well done to you all!

Year 6 designed toppings for Scottish Oatcakes based on a specific design criteria and then made some of these at home. They are to prepare, assemble and taste the oatcakes before evaluating their toppings.

The children were also given the option of baking shortbread also, in keeping with the…