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Year 4 and 5 at the School Games 🏅

Yesterday, our Year 4 and 5 pupils were honoured to represent Copeland at the School Games in Carlisle.

They had a fantastic time alongside pupils from other schools and were inspired by hearing from successful sportspeople, including athletes who…

Year 3 and 4 enjoyed having a rugby coach from St. Benedict’s School to teach them some skills. Some children will be attending a school tournament later this term to represent St. Bridget’s. It was lovely to have the opportunity for everyone to experience the game.

Year 3 have been very busy developing their knowledge of 3-digit numbers to 1,000. They used base ten, place value counters, charts and part whole models to partition 3-digit numbers. As well as writing them in digits and words, they also understood the value of each digit using partitioning to…

Year 2 Science – Living Things!

This week in Science, Year 2 have been learning all about living things! We started by learning about MRS GREN, a fantastic way to help us remember the seven things that all living things do:

M – Movement
R – Respiration
S – Sensitivity
G – Growth
R –…

On Thursday, St Bridget’s held a whole-school election, giving every child the opportunity to have their voice heard.

This term, Year 1 are working on improving their ball skills. In today’s PE lesson, the children worked on practising their rolling of a ball. When they were able to send the ball accurately to their teammates, they extended the distance over which they wear sending the ball. The children showed…

On Thursday, St Bridget’s took part in a whole school election where each individual class was given the opportunity to vote for their class representatives. Each child who wanted to take part could present themselves to their peers and the following day, the whole class voted for two children. In…

This week, Year 1 voted in the school council elections for who would represent their class this year. They all went in to the hall and casted their votes in the polling station. Six children stood in total and the votes were very close. Henry and Alina won the vote and are looking forward to…

This half term, Reception will be taking part in Multi-Skills sessions. This week, the children had lots of fun taking part in a variety of running and movement games. They developed their listening skills by following instructions carefully and also practised finding and moving into space. The…

This week in RE, we went outside into the forest to make our very own nature bracelets. We talked about how God created our beautiful world and everything in it. The children enjoyed collecting different pieces of nature for their bracelets and were able to name lots of wonderful things that God…

Year 3 enjoyed listening to each candidate’s manifesto and decided who would be their best School Councillors. All children that put themselves forward gave a great speech. They went to the voting station to elect their choices. The successful candidates are to be announced tomorrow.