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Congratulations to all the children who achieved their BLACK Karate reading band this year which meant that they had at least 250 signed reads in their reading record.  58 children in total across the school achieved this!  Well done to you all.  We celebrated this together by having a book trail…

The last few weeks we have been learning about debating. We split into teams and were given a proposing or opposing side on the following: Shorter School Holidays, Banning Computers in School and No School Uniform. After a lot of research and planning we held our debates as well as a vote within…

Year 6 were extremely fortunate with the weather today for their geography field trip to the Lake District.

We set off early in the morning and headed for Ambleside, where we walked up to Todd Crag. At the top we had a spectacular view of Windermere and the surrounding fells. We orientated our…

We have been working all this half-term on the different parts of our rainforest collages and finally we have put them all together!  We are really proud of our final pictures and hope you like them too!

This afternoon, at the end of a very busy week, Year 6 returned to Dorrington Woods to build a camp fire - with a lot of help from Mrs Walsh! She got the fire going so well that we were able to toast marshmallows, which was a new experience for some of us. We also enjoyed biscuits and hot…

After enjoying wheelchair basketball, Year 6 focussed on learning some basic First Aid skills. We looked at what to do if we come across a casualty who is unresponsive. We learned how to check if they are breathing and, if they are, how to keep them safe by putting them into the recovery position.…

We have a great time trying wheelchair basketball today.  It was pretty tricky but lots of fun!

Thank you to Lancaster Bulldogs for coming in and telling us about wheelchair basketball. We really enjoyed it but realised how hard it really it is! 

Today, Lancaster Bulldogs came into school to give us the opportunity to play wheelchair basketball. It was much harder than it looked but we persevered and we even scored lots of goals.

At the start of a very busy day, Year 6 enjoyed a session of wheelchair basketball. 

This evening, Scotforth put on its first ever outdoor production. Year 6 braved the drizzle to perform Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. The story began on the school field, before moving up into the woods to explore the goings-on of a group of runaway Athenians, a bunch of very…

We had so much fun on our trip to Billy Bob’s. We went in a coach journey, we looked at all the different types of transport. We also helped our friends and took turns on the different equipment.