Year 5&6 are preparing for their three day residential at Lockerbie Manor, an outdoor education activity centre, at the end of June. This week they have been finding out more about it and using the information to write persuasive leaflets. They have also enjoyed some team building exercises and problem solving tasks. We are aiming to develop our communication skills; our resilience and our determination to succeed however challenged we might feel.
Work has started on our shelter in Bowfell’s outdoor area this week to enable all-year-round provision whatever the weather. The large canopy is one of the resources the children decided they wanted for their new space. But something else is being installed this week – a wall with a lot of holes in it!! Whatever could it be?
Hola! This morning, Y5 really enjoyed their time at Dallam, learning about different languages and culture. We learnt how to have a basic conversation in Spanish and met new friends through our practice. We also created a fantastic pinata each; which has lots of tasty sweets inside! Thank you to our parent helpers for their offer of transport and to the children for contributing so positively to the session and listening extremely well. Last but not least, a big thank you to Dallam School for organising this wonderful event (and for the cookies!)
Adios for now!
On Friday the 25th May, we had a very special Good Work Assembly. We saw brilliant sporting achievements, Roman Soldiers in fantastic hand-made helmets (Skiddaw), amazing story books written by our budding authors (Bowfell), an amazing rendition of ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ (Hellvelyn) and wonderful biomes, created in Science/DT (Scafell).
Although our Good Work assemblies are always a happy and positive occassion, many of us also felt sad as we said farewell to Mrs Duckworth. Mrs Duckworth has been an amazing member of our Levens Team, with her wonderful smile, contagious laugh and her obvious care and love for the children she teaches. All of the staff and children will miss you a lot Mrs D – and your amazing baking! Thank you from all of us here at Levens and thank you to all the parents who attended our special assembly.
Happy Holidays everyone!
On Wednesday 23rd May, Scafell class and some of Skiddaw travelled to Dallam for a Rounders tournament; making up 2 teams. Firstly, we had to play each other and team A beat team B by 2 rounders. Group A included: MW, MH, TW, FH, AD, OWil, TJ, JB and ODob. In group B there was: OR, ST, OWood, AK, ODav, CH, SD, KH and BH. We both played two more matches: Group A winning them all and Group B winning 1 and losing 2. Group A came 2nd which is a massive achievement and group B came 12th overall. It was a very hot day but we had an amazing time! Thank you to Miss Dawson and all of the parents who transported and supported us!
By O.R and M.W.
Well done to our two fantastic winners in Scafell, Rosie and Erin, for their success in the Country Watch Competition NFU South Lake & Dales, All of Scafell created amazing logo designs for the competition which supports the police in keeping our local areas safe, including protecting farms around the area. We had a lovely visit from a local officer who came to congratulate our two winners in Scafell, on the last day of term. Our two finalists both won a voucher and will be entered into the final; along with the finalists from other participating schools. The overall winner will be selected by Cumbria Police shortly! Well done both!
On Thursday 24th May, the children (and staff) thoroughly enjoyed their morning in church, experiencing and learning more about Pentecost. The children listened extremely well to all the stories and discussions and enjoyed creating peace doves, ‘prayer’ bunting and lighting the candles. Thank you to all who ran and participated in the event, including: the Open The Book team, Pam and all the members of St John’s Church. Also, a big thank you to Mr Wadey for the photos and Mr Hunt for walking both groups down to church.
Every week, we all come together in our family groups to do a whole-school read! Each family group travels to one of our five reading areas across school to enjoy and share books together.
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us on Monday for our first Summer Term toddler taster session! We spent an hour in Bowfell’s outdoor area in the wonderful sunshine enjoying some gardening themed activities.
We planted our own colourful bedding plants, dug for vegetables in the sensory tray, made a flower petal tea party and created flower crowns!
We also had time to explore some natural herby play dough, make cheerio bird feeders, explore some frozen flowers and print some flowers in paint using bottles before we stopped for a snack and story!
It was wonderful to see so many of you, please come back and join us on Monday 2nd July at 9.30am for our last toddler taster of the academic year!
This afternoon, Year 3 & 4 were asking lots of interesting questions about the differences between boys and girls and challenging gender stereotypes:
Men and women make good doctors.
Girls work harder at school than boys.
Boys and girls can be friends.
Boys are better than girls at football.
Boys are stronger than girls.
Girls are kinder than boys.
Boys shouldn’t cry.
We used the space in the school hall to move around to show our response to these statements: True; False or not sure! We explained our reasoning verbally covering topics on equality, freedom to choose and some discussion about the changing role of women in modern society. Skiddaw agreed that gender isn’t important; but individuals are! That we are all unique and special regardless.