School Blog
Money Money Money!
Year 2 have been working hard with Mrs Coker’s school fund!! Counting, collaborating, sorting, finding ways to make different amounts, problem solving…..
Fairtrade at Levens
During Fairtrade Fortnight we have taken the opportunity to learn lots and spread the word about Fairtrade. Here at Levens, we think that it is important that workers and farmers across the globe, get a fair price for their crops and products. Did you know that many farmers do not even get enough income to feed their own families? We support Fairtrade so that this injustice ends. During the day, we all enjoyed a range of Fairtrade snacks including raisons, juice, bananas and biscuits; and learnt lots about Fairtrade in class. At the end of the day, our Good Work Assembly provided an opportunity to share our learning and tell parents all about why it is important to support Fairtrade by buying as many Fairtrade products as possible.
Our Eco-Team organised and led this year’s Fairtrade Stall selling groceries and crafts taking almost £200 to support Fairtrade and every pound is match-funded by the government. A great effort everyone – Thank you!!
Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle
Today our nursery children have been having a go at mark making. We moved our ribbons in time to the music, lifting them up and down. Then we transfered the movement to our pencils. The children had a great time moving to the music and are looking forward to giving it another go!
World Book Day Fun!
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.
Learning about volume and capacity with potions!
This week Scafell class have been learning about measurement. They have worked very hard and so we had some educational fun on Friday afternoon. The children created their own slimy, colourful potions (with a hint of eyeballs!) They used many skills such as: reading scales; accurately measuring out liquid in ml and l; converting measures; finding fractions of measurements; and used lots of team work and creativity! Take a look, but beware, the potions have magical powers…
Key Steps Superstars!
We had a fantastic time at Key Steps Gymnastics Competition at Dallam School today. All of the children have worked so hard prior to the competition, and their skills shone through today. Key Steps Group 1 (Year 2) won Silver, Group 2 (Year 3/4) won Gold and, last but not least, Group 3 (Year 5/6) won Bronze; following their efforts in vault, body management and amazing floor performances. Additionally, K.H (Group 2) gained the most points overall in the whole competition. What superstars! Thank you to all of our wonderful Gymnasts for participating, and to all of the parents and teaching staff who have supported the practice and main event. We all feel immensely proud!
Special Talents
We had a special assembly today to say good bye, good luck and especially thank you to Mrs Haslam. She has been a wonderful addition to our team and we wanted to thank her for all her hard work over the past few weeks. We sang her a lovely song that recognises we all have special talents and this seemed a perfect way to celebrate Mrs Haslam’s talents too! Here she is with her beautiful flowers and cards.
Mark-making in Early Years
Our Nursery and Reception children have had lots of fun this week experimenting with writing using different tools and surfaces; both indoors and outside!
Playing in a Winter Wonderland!
It has been a wonderful winter wonderland outside today. The children thoroughly enjoyed playing out in the snow during break time and lunch time, making snowmen and even snow-dogs! Look at all of those happy faces!
