Today all our year 5 & 6 pupils proudly shared their topic homework completed over the Christmas holidays. Each child conducted their own research before producing an information report on a famous volcano of their choice. These included: Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius and Krakatoa. Their work demonstrated their knowledge and included: photographs with captions, diagrams, glossaries, technical vocabulary, headings and subheadings.
We have been delighted with the high levels of attendance from pupils in all three classes during the autumn term. We appreciate that no one can help being ill so we have decided to award a ‘Good Attender Certificate’ too for those pupils with 98% or above, Well done to our 100% attenders this term – 21 pupils in total.
This morning, Scafell Class enjoyed continuing to create their models of dome volcanoes; complete with rocks, rivers, moss, hills, trees, buildings and even the odd dinosaur. Here we are in action. Mrs Farraday was very impressed with how we demonstrated positive collaborative learning:
We are so very pleased with our amazing volcano models completed today. We also invited children from across school to witness several rather dramatic eruptions.
We began with some Y6 musicians playing the festive pieces before the service even started. Then our Christmas service was led and written by Scafell this year. They chose one aspect of Christmas then in pairs wrote their own pieces to say in the service. They made comparisons between how we celebrate Christmas today and the first Christmas. We hope you enjoy reading their messages and thoughts about Christmas.
We had our Christmas Musical Extravaganza; The children demonstrated their wonderful skills playing violins, guitars and piano. We enjoyed styles from classical to folk and more than one version of Jingle Bells! Thanks must go their excellent music teachers; Mrs Rainbow, Mrs Hurley and Mr Duesbury. Well done to all players – it was an absolute pleasure to listen to your performances.
Year 5 and 6 have had great fun this week creating their models of volcanoes in groups. The design brief required each group to be able to make a specific type of volcano (either composite, shield or cindercone); and to ensure it looks like and erupts like a real volcano.
Here’s how our models look so far:
Very impressed with our very thorough tidying up at the end of a very messy afternoon:
Here are just a few photographs of todays’ performances of this year’s nativity. The children dazzled our audiences with Oscar-winning acting; X-Factor singing and Strictly-style costumes! Well done everyone!!
Very well done to all our year 5 & 6 pupils who designed and created their own stalls of games for our Christmas Fair on Friday. These included: Raining Sweets, High Fliers, Bowling, Mystery Wheel, Guess the Name of the Teddy; Put the carrot on the Snowman and a Lucky Dip. They raised a staggering figure of £185 as they entertained young and old with their fun, original and imaginative activities. Great job Scafell!
Thank you to our school council who organised a ‘spectacular spots’ and ‘hilarious hair’ mufti day in aid of this year’s Children in Need appeal. We also enjoyed a yummy cake sale and raised £150 in total. Thank you for all your kind donations. 
On Friday we invited friends, family members and the community to join us for our special service of Remembrance. Each class contributed to part of the service. Scafell performed dramatic freeze-frames based on the book ‘War Game’ by Michael Foreman; Bowfell retold their version of the story ‘The little Hen and the Great War’; and Skiddaw led us in prayer and read out the names of all the service men killed in action at or since the First World War.
Our service also involved every child placing their own poppy onto the central display piece on view in our school hall.