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Using Wild Things as our inspiration, Year 1 had the challenge of creating a boat as well as a Wild Thing out of natural materials.  They set about working together brilliantly as Teams, showing co-operation, determination and lots of laughing and giggling.  The children talked about their designs…

Year 5 designed and made a ‘Marble Run’ on our design and technology day. They used junk materials and enjoyed the challenge of  re-designing their models in order to ensure the marble could run through freely. 

Year 5 have enjoyed learning how to play cricket with Mr. Semphill.

Y6 enjoyed a design and technology day creating “fashion” from recyclable items. The theme was “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” and they certainly did that. Working in small teams, they created a selection of weird and wonderful items of clothing and showed their designs off on the cat-walk. 
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Today our Year 1 children spent the morning in their new class, getting to know their new teachers and becoming familiar with the classroom. They looked at photos of what activities they may do in Year 2 then they listened to the story ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds. The message of the story was that…

Year 2 have spent much of this year learning about physical and human features in their geography lessons. Today they went on a walk around Egremont to explore the many features it has and use their knowledge to identify the type of features they are. The children even found time for a spot of…

The activity for this week was to build a sculpture that represented ‘Hopes’ for Year 6.  The children were unanimous in that they wanted challenge, calm and fun!  
This group of children chose to work mostly as a team, but then 2 children broke away and decided to worked independently.  The…

Year 2 started a new maths unit today on position and direction. Today they were using the positional words left, right, backwards and forwards. They had great fun giving instructions to their partners to move around the playground.

We have been reading a graphic text in English lessons for the last two weeks. The characters in the text created animals using sticks, mud, pebbles, leaves nuts and stones. We wrote descriptions about fantastical animals that we would like to create. We illustrated them in the style of Dave…

Year 2 have been learning about the history of puppets in preparation for designing and making marionette puppets. The children thoroughly enjoyed the making process and are very proud of their final creations. The children found out that puppets have been used to entertain people for thousands of…

Year 3 had a great time on design and technology day, making garden flowers and planters from re-cycled bottles. This linked nicely to our science topic on plants. The children enjoyed painting and bending the plastic bottles to make garden decorations and flower planters hung with ribbon. 
 

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Our first Forest Schools Taster session was held for Years 3 and 4.  After learning the rules for Forest school, ‘Be safe, be kind,’ the children were set the challenge of designing a flag or emblem that represents what makes our School so special.  The only resources allowed were anything that…