School Blog

World Book Day Fun!

 in English / Whole School by

We all had a fabulous time on World Book Day and one of the highlights was guessing the words the adults and children had dressed up as. There were some amazing costumes. Class One dressed up as CVC words and saw lots of animals in the classroom including cats, dogs, a bat and a cow! Class Two dressed up as adjectives and Class Three as a noun. Class Four came dressed as a word from their spelling list. These creations included foreign, cemetery and bargain. Thank you all for your effort and creativity.

Class One designed their own bookmarks and book covers. They thought about who reads and why. They decided that everyone can read and said, ‘We read to have fun.’ When they were asked how reading makes you feel they said calm, happy, not lonely and like you have lots of friends.

Class Two enjoyed a quiz and word search and also designed their own characters.

Class Three had great fun listening to MC Grammar’s World Book Day rap and identifying the songs and book characters mentioned and thought about their favourite places to read, characters and quotes.

Class Four produced reading maps showing their favourite places to read. Following this, the children designed their perfect reading location.

Animation workshop

 in Art / Class Three / Computing by

Class Three had an amazing day learning how to produce an animation. We started the day making our own characters using modelling clay. We then drew a story board and began our animating. We moved our characters very slowly and took a picture of each stage. We needed 12 pictures for each second. We then learnt how to add titles, music and special effects to complete our final piece.

Edinburgh Zoo Highlights

 in Class Four by

The visit to the zoo on Thursday on our residential was definitely one of the highlights for everyone! Here are just some of the photographs taken on a very happy, sunny day in Edinburgh.

Electric posters.

 in Class Three / Design and Technology / History by

Class Three were set the challenge of producing an information poster for a museum to educate the public about an aspect of Roman life. The children researched their chosen topic, produced draft designs then refined their final design. They used corrugated card to strengthen their poster and also added an electrical circuit to include a bulb on their final electric poster. I think you will agree they look fantastic as well as providing valuable information.

Dallam gymnastics.

 in Class Three / PE by

Class Three had a fantastic morning at Dallam Sports Hall taking part in a gymnastics carousel. The children behaved perfectly and all gave the activities 100%. The children had the opportunity to use a variety of equipment and demonstrate their gymnastics skills including jumping, forwards rolls, balancing and movement. They all had a brilliant time, thank you very much to the students and staff at Dallam for making this possible and Mrs Coker and Mrs Mason for accompanying us.

Gymnastics!

 in Class Two / PE by

Class 2 have been learning a variety of different skills in gymnastics this term. Here are some pictures of us in action!

Levens Young Voices choir of 2025

 in Music / Whole School by

Our Young Voices choir of 2025 again took part in the largest children’s choir in the world last week, when they performed live at the Co-op arena in Manchester. Making the day even more special was a live streaming around the world of ‘Marley Magic’ to celebrate the legendary Bob Marley on what would have been his 80th birthday! We hope those of you who were able to join us had as much fun as we did!

Animal Quiz Answers

 in Whole School by

A huge thank you to everyone who took part in Mrs Mason’s animal quiz over the last few months. Entries have now closed and the winners have been drawn – the lucky winners will receive a lovely red envelope very soon!

There was an enormous response to the quiz and we a very grateful to everyone who gave it a go. The final total raised is still being calculated – we will update this post with the grand total.

To put you all out of your misery, all of the anagram answers are below.

Animals Quiz – Answers

Shape

 in Class Two / Maths by

Class 2 have been learning lots about 2D and 3D shape over the past couple of weeks.

Road Safety

 in Class Two / SCARF by

Class 2 had a lovely workshop yesterday all about road safety. They learnt all about this through role play. Thank you to pyjama drama learning for coming and sharing this experience with us.