In Science we have been learning about Solids, Liquids and Gases and what better way to see the transformation between two of these but to make, and eat, chocolate crispy cakes! We split into small groups so we each got a good look closely at the heating of the chocolate and with great squeals of delight we realised what looked like simple chunks of solid chocolate really had been transformed into shiny liquid.
Today Skiddaw have been super sporty. It was our last morning working with Keith Robinson, from Newcastle Falcons, on the Tackling Numbers programme. We have been working over the past 5 weeks on some fantastic tag rugby sessions followed by sport inspired maths lessons. Today it was all about financial know how. We learnt about bank, building society and post office accounts, about the importance of earning money and saving up rather than borrowing and having to pay more back in the long term – really important life lessons!
Then in the afternoon we took two teams to the Quick Sticks Hockey tournament for Y3 and 4 children hosted by Dallam. Everyone raised their game in this competition and we won all but one game! Levens Llamas and Levens Rhinos both did themselves very proud with great team spirit, game awareness and strong tactics. Levens Rhinos came in the top two teams out of 14, and go through to the next round. Thank you to all parent transporters and keen supporters it was great to hear so many cheering us on!
Each day this week, School Council are organising Get Active sessions at lunchtime playtime. We are challenged to keep an activity going in the Sport Relief Zone for half an hour non stop! Monday was bouncing balls, Tuesday was doing “keepy uppy” and Wednesday was singing Heads, shoulders, knees and toes! It was harder than we thought to keep going all that time! School councillors are on hand to give out stickers to those taking part.
Did we manage to keep it going for the 30 minutes every lunch time? YES!!
Thank you for coming in something SPORTY on Friday and bringing a donation of £1. We made £70 to add to the nation’s Sport Relief total and we learnt that half of the money raised is spent in the UK and half is spent in other areas around the world.
Skiddaw have been reading lots of different types of texts recently including plays, letters and poems. Comics have been proving very popular! Here we are with our noses in our comics during morning task.
We have also been writing our own cartoons using captions and different types of speech bubbles. This week we are going to be practising how transform our speech bubbles to use speech marks correctly.
Last week, Mrs Duckworth and Skiddaw class worked hard to create beautiful cards for Mothering Sunday. Mrs Duckworth showed the children how to create flowers out of cut out hearts and the children’s cards looked brilliant. So brilliant, even Miss Dawson joined in to make one! We hope every single Mum who received a card on Sunday loved it – just as much as the children loved making them! Happy Mothering Sunday!
Yesterday, there were lots of sporting events happening so most of the school were out winning! However, some children were left in school, and enjoyed a lovely afternoon doing art in Scafell with Miss Dawson.
Skiddaw are currently working really hard learning about Fractions and really needed a colourful and bright display for their classroom. Therefore, we worked as a team to produce this amazing piece! Miss Dawson really enjoyed spending time with Skiddaw and it looks like the children had fun too!
Skiddaw have been welcoming Keith Robinson, coach to Newcastle Falcons, in again to train with us and this time teach us Maths too. Tackling Numbers scheme lasts for 5 weeks and links important number and shape work to a rugby context. This week was all about polygons, 2 D shapes with only straight sides, and especially different triangles and quadrilaterals. Finlay suggested a variation to our skills game that we are playing here in the first photo – Keith is going to try it out on his adult team players too!
We celebrated World Book Day with traditional dressing up – the pupils and staff all joined in and we had a wonderful range of different characters to guess. Thank you to everyone for your fantastic efforts!
During the morning staff pitched different favourite books and the pupils chose which ones they wanted to hear an extract from. We had poetry from Michael Rosen, favourites from Janet and Alan Alberg, and newly published books about noises in the night and vampire headteachers! Our new library display tells you more about staff recommendations.
Each class was busy with book themed activities throughout the day.
Skiddaw have been making the most of having Mrs Maddock teaching them as her first language is French. She has been wonderful to incorporate French into our dance lesson this week, encouraging us all to speak and write in the language. We used our French for counting, simple instructions as well as revisiting the Amazonian animal names we know to guide our dance movements.
Skiddaw class have been loving finding out lots of facts about South America in Geography. We have concentrated on learning about famous physical and human features in this continent. Many begin with A – the Atacama desert, the Amazon River and Rainforest and the Andes mountain range too.
Here are a few of our interesting facts…
Did you know…
…that the Atacama Desert is the driest desert in the world? LK
…that the Amazon River begins in the Andes mountains? KH
…that the Amazon River is over 4000miles long and has 200 tributaries? EP HW
…that in the Atacama Desert people can catch fog? IC
…that the lichen on the cacti catches drops of water from the fog? PBT