Our skilled musicians entertained wonderfully us by demonstrating what they have learnt over this term. Thanks must go to our dedicated music teachers, Mrs Rainbow, Mrs Hurley and Mr Duesbury. The standard was amazing, with group pieces, duets and solos.
A big thank you to the Barden family for bringing their tractor and wood chipper to show the class. The children had some fantastic questions and big smiles as they explored the machines and found out what they were used for.
…out of school. What shall we see? What shall we see?
A big bus waiting for us. That’s what we see. That’s what we see.
Bowfell Class welcomed our pre-school visitors into class today. We had trasnport themed activities both inside and outside, linked to our current topic of transport. The children bottle top boats to float in the water tray and we made a car wash. Inside there was a chocolate car; which had smarties for wheels and a jelly baby driver. We had lots of activities for all the children to access. Both Reception and Year 1 children were brilliant at looking out for our visitors and offering a helping hand. We all had lots of fun are looking forward to next years sessions.
This morning, Year 6 pupils attended Junior Citizenship at Kendal Fire Station where they learnt how to be safe, responsible, help themselves and others in an emergency; how to stay safe online and understand the truth about the recreational drugs available to so many young people in our community.
Very thought provoking; challenging and a fantastic opportunity to develop some crucial life skills before they take the leap to high school!
What a week we have had…
Monday: It was Sports Day!
Tuesday: We started to design and make boats
Wednesday: We tested our boats…
…and we did some music with Mrs Wadey!
Thursday: We had our first tennis lesson with Max.
Friday: We have continued to design and make our own transport. Year 1 have been investigating the relationship between addition and subtraction. Our Early Years children have been singing a song about Mrs Mason and her cows!
Have a lovely weekend. We have all gone home for a rest so we are ready for another busy week!
Scafell Class enjoyed a whole afternoon of tennis. They developed their skills and played some short rallies.
There was certainly some very competitive play and not just from the children!
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.