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Scafell’s ideas about the benefits of lockdown

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Despite living in uncertain and very strange circumstances, Scafell have risen to the challenge of identifying the positives of lockdown as part of their homelearning.

The have created an interesting list of ideas which they have emailed to us over the last couple of weeks, including:

  • Life is more relaxed;
  • There is less pollution;
  • We are not rushing around to different places;
  • I don’t have to get up as early;
  • I am cooking more;
  • we have more family meals together;
  • I can spend more time online and playing games on my phone;
  • I don’t have to wear school uniform;
  • I can eat lunch outside in the sunshine;
  • it is giving the environment a rest;
  • I am spending more time with the family;
  • I watch more movies;
  • we can do less school work;
  • I go on more bike rides;
  • It’s bringing our family closer together;
  • I can spend more time with my pets.

Scafell, you have shown us that we can always find positives; even when times are tough!

Thank you to everyone in year 5+6 who shared their ideas with us.

 

Easter Fun

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Thank you to all who sent us your photos of you enjoying Easter this year. Here is a selection from Bowfell, Skiddaw and Scafell.

 

Scafell Home-Learning Hall-of-Fame!

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Hello! Mr Dean here, I hope you are all staying safe and well in these strange times.

We’ve had some amazing home learning sent to us over the past few days and wanted to share a few highlights with the world! Well done to everyone who’s done something amazing in the last few weeks!

First up are some of the culinary delights you’ve sent in. From rainbow toast to birthday cakes you’ve been channeling your inner Jamie Olivers and cooking up a storm!

Next up is some incredible art – you’ve taken the challenge of decorating your home learnning books and pulled it off with style!

And last but not least, a selection of all of the great writing, maths, history and everything else in between!

Keep up the great work Scafell and make sure you keep in touch with all of the great work you’ve been doing! Who knows, maybe we’ll feature your work in a future blog!

Stay safe!
– Mr Dean.

Skiddaw News 3.4.20

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Lots of interesting ideas here for you to look at and be inspired by. Your daffodil pictures in pastel, paint and crayon are beautiful as well as some history to get you thinking. Thank you to everyone who sent me photos of your work, I’m loving seeing what you are keeping busy with and hope you enjoy this selection.

 

Paul Cezanne studies in Scafell

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In recent weeks, Scafell have been exploring the work of Paul Cezanne, an extremely influential French artist.  We have found out about his life, his inspiration and his work; including explaining our appreciation of his paintings; before undertaking a carefully study one of our favourites.  Then we set up some ‘Cezanne-type’ still life arrangements of our own for further work using paint.

Elleray Cross Country Event

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Our fabulous team of 23 runners undertook the most testing, hilly, muddy and sodden course imaginable at Elleray this week in driving rain and gale force winds – nothing like ever before!

We were astounded at performances of grit, determination and the most amazing team spirit, leaving everything on the line!

This is a fabulous group of children that we have been delighted to be involved with. Our teams were running against pupils from other schools who were two years older in some instances and still coming out in the top half of the field!

Enormous congratulations to our Year 6 boys team who raced their hearts out to finish second of twenty schools in their category, we are incredibly proud and cannot wait for it all to start again next year. Keep running…..

 

Sport Relief 2020

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Sport Relief week is here and everyday this week we are getting outside and walking, jogging and running a mile! Even nursery are getting involved when they are here. The first day was lovely and dry, the second less so but come rain or shine we are hardy and get on with it. Take a look at our photos here and don’t forget to collect sponsors for this very good cause.

Day 1 – lovely sunny dry day!

Day 2 – Distinct lack of photos due to the weather conditions, just before and after today photos – sorry!

Day 3 – oops forgot to take the camera out!

Day 4 – windy and fresh but we are getting the hang of this…

Day 5 – the sun shone brightly to end our challenge! Congratulations everyone.

Run, Run as fast as you can…

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Well, well, well, if Dragon Almighty wasn’t enough to contend with, Bowfell now have a gingerbread man on the loose! Our special cameras caught him and his friends on the rampage around school last week. The children were shocked and set about on the hunt for him. There were very few clues as to his whereabouts until this afternoon when the postman delivered some interesting mail. Postcards from London, Germany and New Zealand had been sent to the children – from the gingerbread man himself! No wonder they couldn’t find him last week. Everyone was very excited and somewhat perplexed as to where all these places were. We displayed a large map of the world on the whiteboard and zoomed in to see where we were located in comparison to all the places the gingerbread man has been. I wonder if he will be visiting anywhere else on his travels? Watch this space…

Safer Internet Day February 2020

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During our Safer Internet Day on February 11th 2020, every child in school extended their understanding of the internet and the dangers that we might encounter when working or playing online.  Almost every child in school has access to a phone or tablet; and the large majority access the internet regularly.

In Bowfell Class, Reception and Nursery learnt about tablet safety in terms of playing games and apps; identifying things that are safe to click on etc.

Year one watched some of the episodes of Hector’s World which concentrated on issues such as keeping information safe and asking an adult for help. They have designed their own posters to help others stay safe.

Skiddaw Class learnt about what the internet is and how to seek and give permission in real life.  This was linked to our online activity and why it’s important.

Scafell Class focused on looking at the consequences of making irresponsible choices online such as: making friends with people online that we have never met in person, sharing our passwords and believing everything we read online.  You can watch this video here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/13908828

 

More information about keeping safe online can be found at:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

internetmatters.org