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What a fun week we have had in Y1!
We have begun learning the rules and where things are in our class. It has been lovely to see how well the children have started to settle into Y1 life. 

Today Steve and Harold from Life Education came to speak to us about our body and especially our brain.  We learnt what an incredible part of our body it is. We learn how we can help our brain to calm down and also how we can use our brain to solve problems. We loved meeting Harold the giraffe…

Thank you to Steve, who came into Reception. He spoke to us about our bodies and how we can stay healthy. We also got a visit from Harold the giraffe.

Steve from SCARF came in and talked about how we can keep healthy and safe. We discussed the foods we should eat to keep healthy, the importance of exercise and sleep. Harold the giraffe also helped us learn that message!

We had so much fun in Reception. We played with lots of new toys, learnt our school rules and enjoyed a story. 

Well done Year 3 for your first KS2 Sports!  There was loads of resilience, perseverance and of course endurance on show! 

What a great morning we had for the KS2 Sports!  There was loads of resilience, perseverance and of course endurance on show!  It was lovely to see how supportive and encouraging the children were of each other.  Well done everyone - we were really proud of you.  The winners and runners up of the…

Some children entered the competition run by Standfast and Barracks to design a new fabric. The company then made this fabric with all our entries on. Don’t they look fantastic!

In maths, we follow the White Rose Maths scheme. In this scheme there is a tortoise called Tiny who often gets maths problems wrong. This helps the children understand that mistakes are part of learning and that we should have a go even if we are unsure of the answer. The children were keen to see…

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…