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Year 1 and 2 had a great time at the athletics event at Furness Academy.

Amazing team work today for our team of 12 year 6 children who attended the orienteering day at Barrow Park. A special well done to 2 boys who finished in the top 5 out of 200! Thanks to the organisers,  what a great event!

Our cross curricular topic this half term is plants. We have been linking this with English and looking at the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We enjoyed hot seating the Giant in the story to explore the character and his feelings. We enjoyed learning new vocabulary and finding out what the words…

In Year 2 we have been using our previous knowledge of fractions and time to help us with turns and movement. We were able to turn 1/4 or 1/2 turns both clockwise and anti- clockwise. We enjoyed learning this really practically both indoor and outside in partners. We were able to give instructions…

We had a game of cricket with a difference today. 4 people batting and running at the same time. The fielders had to return the balls to Jo to stop the batters running.

We have been exploring international time zones around the world. 

I gave the children a selection of electrical equipment; bulbs, wires, crocodile clips and batteries. I challenged them to light up the bulb.

Sporting some impressive beards, some of year 5 played the part of Pliny the Younger, reading his eye witness account of Mount Vesuvius destroying Pompeii. 

Year 6 loved getting their Leavers' Hoodies today. 

Year 3 are learning about light in science. Today we explored reflective material and mirrors. We wrote messages and copied the mirrored image. Then we looked at the reflection in the mirror to see what happened. We used mirrors held above our heads to try to walk along a wiggly line. It was…

Bowling Skills today. We had lots of fun trying to knock over the wickets.

Popcorn and a film……our film! We loved watching The Tempest