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Scafell Home-Learning Hall-of-Fame!

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Hello! Mr Dean here, I hope you are all staying safe and well in these strange times.

We’ve had some amazing home learning sent to us over the past few days and wanted to share a few highlights with the world! Well done to everyone who’s done something amazing in the last few weeks!

First up are some of the culinary delights you’ve sent in. From rainbow toast to birthday cakes you’ve been channeling your inner Jamie Olivers and cooking up a storm!

Next up is some incredible art – you’ve taken the challenge of decorating your home learnning books and pulled it off with style!

And last but not least, a selection of all of the great writing, maths, history and everything else in between!

Keep up the great work Scafell and make sure you keep in touch with all of the great work you’ve been doing! Who knows, maybe we’ll feature your work in a future blog!

Stay safe!
– Mr Dean.

Paul Cezanne studies in Scafell

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In recent weeks, Scafell have been exploring the work of Paul Cezanne, an extremely influential French artist.  We have found out about his life, his inspiration and his work; including explaining our appreciation of his paintings; before undertaking a carefully study one of our favourites.  Then we set up some ‘Cezanne-type’ still life arrangements of our own for further work using paint.

Sport Relief 2020

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Sport Relief week is here and everyday this week we are getting outside and walking, jogging and running a mile! Even nursery are getting involved when they are here. The first day was lovely and dry, the second less so but come rain or shine we are hardy and get on with it. Take a look at our photos here and don’t forget to collect sponsors for this very good cause.

Day 1 – lovely sunny dry day!

Day 2 – Distinct lack of photos due to the weather conditions, just before and after today photos – sorry!

Day 3 – oops forgot to take the camera out!

Day 4 – windy and fresh but we are getting the hang of this…

Day 5 – the sun shone brightly to end our challenge! Congratulations everyone.

Key Steps Gymnastics Competition at Dallam

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Congratulations to our three amazing teams of gymnasts who recently competed at the South Lakes Keysteps Competition at Dallam School.

Every gymnast has been working extremely hard, with their coach Mrs Craggs, during lunchtimes and at their after-school Gymnastics Club since the beginning of the autumn term.   Their performances included vaults, floor routines and body management sequences.

Our youngest competitors have qualified for the area finals at Dallam School tomorrow and we wish them success as they go for gold!

“I had a fantastic time at the competition.  I had loads of fun doing my routine and my vault.  I worried at the start but then it went and I wasn’t scared anymore.  This competition has made me less scared about performing” reported Zuzia.

“I had a great time.  I want to continue to be a gymnast because it is so much fun”.  said Katie.

“We had to go onto the vault, do a floor routine and perform body management sequences in the competition.  We have worked really hard.” explained Poppy.

 

Visit from Tim Farron

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Congratulations to all the pupils in school who designed a Christmas card for Tim Farron’s competition in December.  Today we had a very special visit – Tim came into school to present the runner up with a lovely prize.  There were just over 1000 entries across the South Lakes in total, so we are very pleased to have a pupil in school achieving the silver award and three other entries gaining ‘highly commended’!

Running Glory

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Our runners showed superb determination and pure grit during Wednesday’s down pours as they ran in the Dallam cross country event. Along with hundreds of other participants Levens pupils got super muddy but still returned to school with smiles on their faces!

Congratulations to Oscar, Charlie, Harris, Dougal and Aaron for coming in the top 5 of their respective races. Huge thanks to our running dream team of Mrs Mason and Mrs Coker for their enthusiasm and commitment to training the runners of Levens School and possible future Olympians.

Here they are receiving certificates for their efforts. The photos of the day itself didn’t come out so well and are rather foggy and a little water logged!

KS2 Super Spies!

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What’s with the crazy letters? Keyboard broken? No! Just KS2 getting up to some sneaky spy business. With nearly half of KS2 out at the cross country event doing amazing things, we had some time to take ourselves back to the days of the Enigma machine.

Secret codes are always useful. From writing in a secret diary to sharing confidential battle-plans in times of war, making sure other people can’t read your messages without permission can be really important. But how does it work? And, more interestingly, how do clever people break encryption codes to get at the secret messages within?

We started by learning about the Caesar Cipher – a technique used to take an ordinary message and “shift” the letters so that they can no longer be read. We made our own encoding machines and wrote plenty of secret messages. If somebody knows the encryption key (how much the letters have been shifted), they can easily decode the message.

But what if we don’t know the key? Well, the “key” to solving that problem is to look for common patterns. Some letters (like e) are used all the time in the English language. Other times, you can spot words which follow the same pattern. Most useful of all, you can look for unique words – we looked for single-letter words. These are probably only going to be “a” or “I”, so we’ve already got a great start to decoding.

Once we’d worked this out, the entire classroom turned into a well-oiled decoding machine, intercepting secret messages from Mr Dean and decoding them to find out what on earth he’s talking about! Maybe he really is a spy after all!

 

 

C’est Moi!

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Year 5 & 6 have been writing some sentences about themselves in French!   Their writing includes information about their name, age, family and likes and dislikes as part of our topic on ‘Ourselves’.  We shared our sentences orally in Celebration Assembly today.

Well done everyone!

Rock Around the Flock

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This year’s whole school performance was another magical show for us to enjoy.  Well done everyone on your three brilliant shows last week: