Scafell’s Spoons
See Scafell’s wonderful spoon creations close up here…
Scafell
World Book Day
The aim of World Book Day is to celebrate authors, books, illustrators and – of course – reading! That is exactly what we have been doing today. This year, instead of dressing up we challenged the pupils to create a wooden spoon book character … and they rose the this challenge WONDERFULLY! We have also been busy doing book activities in class and shared books together in our family groups. Thank you to all families who helped and worked together on this project. One winner from each class will be announced in tomorrow’s Celebration Assembly. Take a look at their creations here.
Scafell Map skills
We have been looking at different types of maps in Scafell this week to make comparisons between physical and human features in Edinburgh and Kendal. We also looked at very old maps of these areas to see how they have changed over time and developed our geographical vocabulary to describe these settlements and the surrounding environments. These included: urban, rural, industrial, tourism, hills, fells, suburban, congestion, farming etc.
Scafell Visit to Edinburgh
We all enjoyed a wonderful three days in Edinburgh just before the halfterm holidays. Highlights included: pandas at Edinburgh Zoo; dinner at Nando’s; Robots at the Scottish National Museum; Mrs Mason’s quiz-night; a mirrored-maze at Camera Obscura; and super volcanoes at Dynamic Earth.
The trip provided a range of amazing experiences enriching our learning in the classroom and extending our knowledge and understanding of our world. We each walked a staggering 50,000 steps, but no one complained! Our days were full of laughter and smiles. The Scafell team were fantastic friends to one another, as well as incredible ambassadors of our school, with many positive comments received from members of the public and museum staff alike. Well done everyone!
Cumbria X Country
What a brilliant opportunity for our excellent runners to take a huge step up in standard, competing against the best in the County, on the most difficult course that I have ever seen at primary level.
On Monday this week, with a beautiful blue sky, though a terribly muddy terrain, our elite runners did just that, pushing themselves to exhaustion and personal fulfillment. All of the adults who had the privilege to be there with them, couldn’t have been prouder; it was a very special day!
Congratulations to all for your fantastic achievements!
We now have Oscar going on to represent Cumbria at the National Championships in Leicester in March, a huge event.
One more event left at Elleray, we couldn’t be more excited.
Highwayman Homework
Well done Scafell who have produced some wonderful ‘Wanted Posters’ as part of their literacy work on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. Looks like they had great fun staining their paper and burning the edges to give their posters an authentic feel. More fabulous work based around this poem coming soon….
Y5 identifying and labelling different angles
Did you know that different sized angles have different names? Today, year 5 were outside for their maths lesson, deciding whether the angles drawn on the playground were acute, obtuse, right-angles, straight-angles or reflex.
Can you identify the angles? If not, see any member of our year 5 experts for help!
Big Painting
We had great fun today creating big paintings of shapes. First, we worked together to draw shapes with rulers and drawing round lots of objects in the class. We discussed the properties and names of the shapes as we drew them.
J’aime le chocolat
This week, Scafell pupils have started their new topic in French: ‘At the cafe’. We have begun by developing our vocabulary for food and drink by playing games; speaking and listening and drawing foods we like and dislike.
J’aime la glace.
J’aime les saucisses mais je n’aime pas le poulet.
2D Shape Treasure Hunt
This morning, Scafell began this term’s work on shape by exploring the school grounds searching for, identifying, sketching and then describing the properties of the 2D shapes they discovered. These included: rhombus, square, trapezium, parallelogram, kites.
High level vocabulary was used effectively and appropriately to describe each shape:
- pairs of parallel sides
- regular
- symmetrical
- irregular
- sides perpendicular
- quadrilateral