School Blog

Forest Schools

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We had our first visit to the forest this week. We all found our walking legs to get up the big hill, keeping ourselves safe and listening to instructions.

Once we were in the forest we had to listen carefully to lots of new rules. Our boundary had been marked out with red and white tape and we used elephant footsteps to walk, making sure that we didnt trip up.

Our next task was to find a partner and take a hoop. We had to find a spot of the forest floor and look closely inside the hoop to see if we could find anything interesting. To start with there was just leaves but when we moved the leaves away. all sorts of things crawled out!

We had a fantastic time and can’t wait for our next visit!

 

Dallam Primary Cup Challenge Hockey

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Wow! What a fantastic performance at the Dallam Hockey Tournament. Fourteen teams entered and we achieved an impressive 2nd place. Brilliant reverse stick play along with great defence and attack meant we only conceded one goal. Our players were all amazing and had real team spirit of which they should be extremely proud.

Levens School is currently in 1st place for the Challenge Cup. Just one more round left – Kwik Cricket – so let’s get practising.

Well done!

Doubling and Halving

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Bowfell children have been busy doubling and halving numbers, tea party food and even themselves. They have been exploring ways of recording their work to show their answers.

Football

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Bowfell are having weekly coaching session with Tom from Westmorland FA. They are having a great time learning how to move around the space, with a ball and more importantly having control of where the ball goes.

Spinners

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Another practical science lesson to investigate air resistance. Pupils made spinners with different sized wings to see which would fall the slowest. Scafell class concluded that the spinners with the largest wings fell the slowest because the surface area was larger creating greater air resistance.

Understanding Friction

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Pupils in Scafell enjoyed a practical science lesson to develop their understanding of friction. They set up a fair experiment to see which surface would slow the car down quickest and discussed their findings with the class.

 

World Book Day 2017

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We have been celebrating the 20th Year of World Book Day.

We fancied a change from dressing up and so challenged the children to bring in a bag of items that would give clues to a famous book character instead. See us here, sharing our bags in family groups this morning.

We have also challenged everyone to bring in a photo of ‘extreme reading’ – reading in an unusual and wonderful place. Thank you to everyone – you have so entertained and impressed us with your creative ideas. They will, very soon, be on display in the library so do come and take a look! We’ve been having a poetry theme in classes and will be sharing our performance poetry with everyone in school.

With Thanks To FOLS

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We’d like to share our thanks with everyone who has helped to raise FOLS funds recently and let you know what has been gifted to school this term. We have new magnets and materials for Science lessons, a range of six maps of different scales for Geography lessons and an exciting stack of up to date dictionaries and thesauruses and 2 larger more comprehensive class dictionaries. Thank you so much!