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Designing and Making a take-a-way Pizza

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Year 5&6 had great fun on Friday preparing and making different sorts of pizzas.  First they worked in groups to make the dough before choosing from a range of ingredients for the toppings.  They carefully considered different dietary requirements by preparing vegetarian as well as dairy-free pizzas too. The next challenge involved creating a brand for their pizza and making a take-a-way box complete with a closing lid and decorated with attractive designs to promote their brand.

To follow up this practical, fun day; we will be reading different sorts of recipes in order to get ideas about how to write our own instructions for making pizza.

Lasagne….. mmmmmm!! Delicious!

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What a wonderful treat all the staff at Levens School had on Monday evening.  A two course meal prepared and served by our year 5 pupils.  The children had also organised invitations; prepared menus; set the tables (including flower arrangements); chosen music to create atmosphere; and even did the washing up at the end!  Everyone was extremely impressed with the 5 star food – the lasagne was ‘delectable’ according to one diner and the fruit salad had everyone wanting more.  Well done to our pupils and their leaders – Mrs Mason and Mrs Coker!

Kandinsky

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Today we started to look at the artist Kandinsky. One of his most famous pieces is a series on concentric circles.

Kandinsky loved music and colour. He believed that colour could express feelings in the same way music could.

We talked about the different colours, how they might make us feel and why. We then had a go at creating our own.

Bowfell Class Sell Houses

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As part of our topic of Houses and Homes, we have set up an estate agents in our role play area.

The children have been taking on different roles and deciding on the types of houses their character might want. The estate agent has been asking questions to establish more details and share options with their clients.

Telling the Time

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We have been learning to tell the time in Bowfell Class this week. We started with o’clock and then half past.

We have played ‘What Time is it Mr Wolf?’, we have used our bodies and made the times on small clocks. Year 1 have also been solving problems using time.

Year 5 visit Dallam for an afternoon of K’nex!

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Last week, we went to Dallam to enjoy a science afternoon.   It was really fun.  First we got into pairs and started our tasks which were: building helmets and cars!  Making the hats was tricky because they had to fit our heads and have special features.  Everyone’s was different but we had to make lots of changes so that they fitted on our heads!

by Trinity and Erin

At first we didn’t know what k’nex was but then our tutor, Fran, explained and gave us instructions on how to build a car out of K’nex. He gave us two specific things for our car.  These were to fit a shoe onto the car and the second was to have a compartment that fitted a spare tyre inside.  On our car we decided that we would use Rosie’s shoe to put on the car. Our second decision was not to use a band to stick the shoe to the car, but use Rosie’s velcro on her shoe instead.  Fran set a ramp for each car to be rolled down to see whose car travelled the furthest.  We came in 3rd place – It was a fantastic afternoon!

by Rosie and Penny

Plant Eye Spy

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In science, Skiddaw class went on a plant eye spy searching the school grounds and playing fields for different shaped leaves. They found jagged edged, rounded, long and thin leaf shapes. They came back inside and used a range of media to make careful observational drawings of plants that will soon be on display in our classroom.

Dallam Rounders Tournament

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Year 3 and 4 spent a sunny afternoon enjoying playing Rounders at Dallam this week. They played 3 games against other teams and improved their fielding, batting and bowling skills no end. Great to see such super team work as you encouraged and celebrated successes. We scored lots and lots of rounders including some tactical half rounders too.

Multilink Model Making

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To launch our new Geography map topic we have been building models, then looking at them from different view points. We have drawn views from the top (otherwise known as aerial or plan views) and side views. We swapped our drawings and challenged others to remake our models.

School Ski Competition

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Huge congratulations to our 2017 Levens School Ski Team who took part in the Kendal School Ski competition involving 15 schools from the south Lakes area.  First, the fabulous four skied their way through 5 tough races only to miss qualifying for the final ski-off by a single point in the under 9s competition!  Special well done to Elliott who joined the Levens team for the first time this year and had a very promising debut!

This made their hunger for victory even greater and they went on to compete in the under 11s races!  Again great enthusiasm and determination made them very strong competitors; racing against children who were much bigger, older and more experienced than themselves.   They won many of their individual races and the team secured 20points putting them in joint first place with another school.  The top 4 teams qualified for the final ski-off and with more last minute tips for Levens from their coach, Steve Kitchen, they secured an incredible 3rd place; and each received an individual medal.

Levens Ski Team are an inspiration!  Although we didn’t manage to retain the title and bring home the trophy this year; our team have exciting times ahead as they develop their skills and experience on the slopes. Well done superstars!