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A Surprise Gift!

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Mrs Farraday doesn’t often receive phone calls offering school money…but this is exactly what happened yesterday! Sampool Caravan Park held a fundraising event recently. They wanted to support a local organisation with the proceeds and chose us. Angela and Steven presented us with a huge cheque for £249.00 in a special assembly today. We did a wonderfully rousing three cheers and thanked them for their generosity. Mrs Farraday’s already thinking how best to spend the money and we will let the home owners and staff at Sampool know as soon as we’ve decided.

Thank you so much!

Fairtrade Fortnight 2019

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Skiddaw class have been learning about the benefits of Fairtrade and Mrs Mason has baked with every member of the class this week using Fairtrade items of bananas, sugar and chocolate. We held a Fairtrade tea and coffee afternoon on Friday and the canteen was bursting at the seams with takers for cups of Fairtrade tea or coffee along with slices of our baking. Shopper also purchased things from Pam and Eco team’s Fairtrade stall which sold £131.45 worth of goods. Thank you to everyone who queued so patiently and came along to raise awareness of this important issue.

Scafell’s Spoons

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See Scafell’s wonderful spoon creations close up here…

Skiddaw’s Spoons

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We have been involved in a Scavenger Book Hunt today to celebrate World Book Day. In teams we had to search in books and find a long list of different things like an apple, some magical words, a contents page or a sad character, We worked really well, gathering our findings and exploring the many books that we have in our classroom.

We were so amazed at your creativity in making wooden spoon book characters. Here are some close up photos of ours and us hard at work with our hunt.

World Book Day

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The aim of World Book Day is to celebrate authors, books, illustrators and – of course – reading! That is exactly what we have been doing today. This year, instead of dressing up we challenged the pupils to create a wooden spoon book character … and they rose the this challenge WONDERFULLY! We have also been busy doing book activities in class and shared books together in our family groups. Thank you to all families who helped and worked together on this project. One winner from each class will be announced in tomorrow’s Celebration Assembly. Take a look at their creations here.

Baptism at St John’s

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Last week, Reception and Year one enjoyed a visit to St John’s church to listen to Canon Thompson talk to them about baptism. They have been learning what is involved during a Christian Baptism and what it means to be baptised. Canon Thompson then baptised a doll, some of the children were parents and godparents. He talked about what happens, some of the words which are spoken and the promises that are made. The children enjoyed their visit and shared all that they had learnt at our celebration assembly on Friday.

Levens Disco Fever

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Everyone had such an amazing time at our school disco on Thursday evening.  Thank you to School Council who took money on the door, served refreshments, organised games for everyone and even cleaned up at the end.  Great work and a wonderful evening for all.

Huge thanks to Paul and Hannah for doing the disco!

Scafell Map skills

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We have been looking at different types of maps in Scafell this week to make comparisons between physical and human features in Edinburgh and Kendal.  We also looked at very old maps of these areas to see how they have changed over time and developed our geographical vocabulary to describe these settlements and the surrounding environments.  These included: urban, rural, industrial, tourism, hills, fells, suburban, congestion, farming etc.

Letter writing

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Some of the children in Year One spent their guided reading session this afternoon learning all about letters and how they travel through the post. This included the journey of a letter going overseas.

They then wrote letters to each other and we enjoyed a sunny walk down to the postbox to post them. They are wondering how long it will take them to arrive…

Scafell Visit to Edinburgh

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We all enjoyed a wonderful three days in Edinburgh just before the halfterm holidays.  Highlights included: pandas at Edinburgh Zoo; dinner at Nando’s; Robots at the Scottish National Museum; Mrs Mason’s quiz-night; a mirrored-maze at Camera Obscura; and super volcanoes at Dynamic Earth.

The trip provided a range of amazing experiences enriching our learning in the classroom and extending our knowledge and understanding of our world.    We each walked a staggering 50,000 steps, but no one complained!  Our days were full of laughter and smiles. The Scafell team were fantastic friends to one another, as well as incredible ambassadors of our school, with many positive comments received from members of the public and museum staff alike.  Well done everyone!