Class Three

Barrow Raiders Rock!

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Fridays have become a firm favourite with Class 3 and Class 4 because of the sessions of Tag Rugby with Barrow Raiders this term. Having professional players share their expertise with pupils and staff has been brilliant and although we are only 3 sessions in, the skills of moving with the ball, passing and this week ways to evade your opposition.

Every week, everyone is engaged in mini games and challenges to develop each skill, encouraging each other and celebrating successes.

Thank you so much to Mrs Coker, an avid Barrow Raiders season ticket holder, for organising this wonderful experience for us all and to the players for running such fun and engaging sessions.

Do look out in book bags for the special free season tickets that have kindly been donated by Barrow Raiders and handed out on Friday.  This includes entry to all 13 home Championship league games! Do cheer along our coaches including winger Tee Ritson and watch out for Mrs Coker in the stands if you are lucky enough to go along. It really is an amazing atmosphere and a wonderful way to spend an afternoon supporting a local team!

Experience Church

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This week, we were treated to another of the “experience” series of events by St. Johns church. We’ve previously enjoyed experience Easter and experience Christmas, this time was “experience Church”.

Arriving at church, we found 6 stations waiting for us – each one representing a part of the church and service that the church provides. These included: the font (welcoming); the pulpit (teaching); the prayer desk (praying); stained glass windows (serving) and the altar (celebrating). At each station, we were encouraged to think about how the church serves all of these different functions. We also took part in a special activity to represent each station.

The sixth and final station was saved until the end. Everyone sat down in front of the great wooden door in the side of the church. Here, we learned that the church shares – part of the job is to share the ideas of Christianity with others. The things that we learn in church are designed to be taken out into the world and shared with others. I wonder if any of our children have shared what they learned with you?

Thanks to everyone from St Johns Church who helped to organise and staff this experience for us – it is greatly appreciated!

Clay Tiles

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We spent a happy and productive session just before Christmas creating our final clay tiles, inspired by our research into Roman mosaic patterns. Here we are rolling out the tiles and creating our designs based on our sketch book plans. Some indented the clay by pressing different tools into it and others added clay to build up raised parts of the design, remembering to score and use water to make sure they stayed attached once dry!

Here are our finished designs with a few beside the final plans in our sketch books!

 

Beauty and The Beast

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Reception children all the way up to Year 6 really have had the most magical theatre experience today! The Dukes Theatre is always so welcoming, their well judged performances are a joy and this year was no exception. The action packed story was a more modern version with funny jokes to entertain the children with details keep the adults smiling too including details of magic and wonder! The children were keen to join in with audience participation including clapping along and letting the actors know if they agreed with their plans! Here is what some of the children had to say…

“The Beast was rather scary and the Dung Song at the start was great!”

“I liked it when the Beast and Bella were planting flowers and their friendship was growing too.”

“I was sitting on an end and so the Beast came really close to me!”

“My favourite bit was the dog as he spoke the word woof and he was called Nigel!”

 

Dance with Ashley

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Class 3 have been working really hard with our expert dance teacher, Ashley who has come from the Brewery Dance Team on Friday afternoons. We have been using the Romans as our inspiration for our piece. This involves individual elements, paired work and group parts too and we have developed our own sections and learnt sections as a whole class too ready to perform to Class 4 this next Friday. Thank you to Ashley for teaching us and providing some expert training for Mrs Wadey and Mrs Craggs too.

Here we are in action…

Anti-Bullying Week

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In School this week, we have all been talking about ‘One Kind Word’ which has been the theme for Anti-Bullying Week 2021.   The week began with an assembly exploring the kind words that we can use in our daily interactions that can make the biggest difference to someone’s day; their life and their mental wellbeing.

We should all make a stand by challenging any unkind behaviour that we witness and each class has completed activities during the week about how to respond to different situations; how to seek help and how to support others who may need our help.

Our ‘Odd Socks Day’ was embraced by everyone on Monday too……

Boxes of Hope Revisited

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In assembly today we celebrated the wonderful pupils and families of Levens CE School who have made Boxes of Hope. Our grand total this year is 40! This is an amazing achievement and fantastic testament to the empathy and support that pupils want to offer to others this Christmas time. A huge thank you to all who put a box together this year. Your gifts will really make a difference to a child and family who do not have as much as you.

In the Forest with Class 3

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Last week, Class 3 had an amazing afternoon in the woodland exploring, playing games and undertaking challenges in the outdoors.

We began by talking about the rules of the woodland to keep ourselves and others safe from harm; and to ensure we look after this very special place.  Then we embarked on a range of activities using sticks!  Can you turn your stick into something else?  Can you identify your stick from other people’s when they are all mixed together?  Can you use one word to describe your stick?

We also enjoyed a scavenger hunt around the woodland looking for things that don’t belong in the forest.  We found many objects carefully hidden around the woods.

Our final challenge involved working as a team to create small woodland homes for some animals – fox, hedgehog, owl and rabbit.  They are very well sheltered in their tiny woodland dens. Can you spot any of them?

Gerry the Gardener!

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Eco team have been finding out about the Levens Greening Campaign that has just been launched in the village. This aims to encourage as many people as possible to try small ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Homes in the village have been delivered a Greening Levens Card with more details.

A village wide scarecrow festival is promoting the Greening Campaign and we wanted to be included! We are going to be having our own greening suggestions for children to achieve very soon.

Here we are with our scarecrow creation – Gerry the Gardener!

 

Boxes of Hope

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We welcomed Mr and Mrs Docker into school to tell us all about Boxes of Hope. They showed us all sorts of wonderful things to include in the boxes and let us eagerly unpack some too. We learnt about where the boxes go to and importantly what not to put in the boxes too. We hope to have a record breaking year of filled boxes this year – a lovely half term holiday activity!