The sun shone for our annual sports day spectacular. We had a mixture of team activities, skills tests and running races, all finished off with a whole school relay race. It was a close fought morning with only 5 points separating all the teams but Green Team was victorious!
Scafell class have been forming political parties and writing their manifestos with extensive ideas to improve our school including: non-uniform days, picnic lunches outside, more PE and forest schools on the curriculum, less homework and road crossings to make travelling to and from school as safe as possible.
This week each party presented their manifestos in speeches to the rest of the school. and the library was turned into a polling station.
In assembly, we have been learning all about the democratic process of elections! Next week, we are looking forward to finding out whether one party has the majority of votes to form the Levens School Government.
Scafell have enjoyed completing beautiful and original mixed-media compositions inspired by the American Artist, Georgia O’Keeffe who is famous for her enlarged studies of flowers, dramatic cityscapes and glowing landscapes. She is recognised as the first American artist to experiment with pure abstraction and is recognised for her contribution to modern art across the world.
Pupils in year 5+6 have used watercolours, pastels, chalks and pencils to create their imaginative studies of flowers. Each one is a unique interpretation with careful consideration to tone, colour, texture and shape.
Thankfully the rain held off on Friday afternoon as parents, friends and pupils gathered to celebrate the gymnastics and dance work that have been on going throughout the year. Many thanks to Mrs Craggs and Miss Nic for their hard work in developing these wonderful routines and special thanks to those who donated cakes and biscuits for the interval. Enjoy the videos!
What a wonderful day we all had at Heaves Farm yesterday!! The whole school walked up the hill to enjoy learning more about farming and how our food gets to our plates. Some of our favourite sections of our tour included: the piglets, tractors, watching the sheep dogs rounding up the sheep and holding the new-born chicks. This event is organised by the Westmorland County Agricultural Society every two years; who invite schools from all over the area to visit – over 1600 school children from Cumbria visited Heaves Farm this year. We feel extremely priviledged to have been invited once again. Another memorable learning adventure at Levens School.
Scafell Class have enjoyed investigating how beans and seeds germinate and explored the conditions for growing seeds during their Science topic on Living Things. Today we continued our observational drawings and annotations showing how our beans have changed over time.
Bowfell Class took part in an orienteering trail set up by Dallam School this week. We went on the hunt for the lost pants!
We have successfully harvested our potatoes…and we found lots of them!!
On Thursday we went to Pupil Parliament. We started off with a wonderful speech by David Bone then we did some fun ice breaker activities with the other children. First we sculpted each other into Olympic athletes then we had to be a piece of garden furniture with our whole group. Our next activity was making a day at the zoo with our body it was fun. After that we had an interesting talk all about parliament, elections and voting.We now all understand how this democratic process works in our country. Our next task was to be separated from everybody we knew and make a political party with a manifesto and a logo. Then we got a ten minute break and had a huge cookie and a drink. Then we got in our groups and got our speeches and slogans ready for the election. After a wonderful lunch of pizza and chips with sticky toffee pudding and vanilla ice cream; we had the election And school squad Utd won but Mrs Farraday was also elected as an MP! Then we looked at some real manifesto publications; and after looking at them all we were persuaded that we supported some parties more than others . Then the teachers thanked Rachel Dodgson and David Bone who do an amazing job at organizing and creating SLPP.
By Levens Pupil Parliament
This week, children in Scafell have made a great start to their two minute talks on a subject of their choice. So far, we have had presentations on: cats, karate, warships, tanks, giraffes, Warhammer and camper vans! The children have used artefacts and IT presentations to support their speeches. We are looking forward to more next week!