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Crime and Punishment

 in Class Four / History / Whole School by

Year 5 + 6 enjoyed a thought-provoking, informative and engaging trip to the Police Museum and Victorian Courthouse in Ripon.

In our topic so far we have been looking at law and order in earlier times including during The Roman Empire, Anglo-Saxon Britain and during the 18th century when over 200 crimes were punishable by death.  During out visit this week, our attention was turned to the 19th century with the introduction of prisons, the police force (originally know as the ‘Peelers’) and The House of Correction!

During the afternoon, we had an opportunity to travel back in time 200 years to a Victorian Courthouse.   Taking the identities of all sorts of different characters, we role-played the trial of William Stokes who was accused of taking a horse and cart from a local farmer.  Despite the range of evidence that almost proved his guilt, the jury overwhelmingly decided on his innocence.  In Victorian times he would have undoubtedly been hanged, but in our discussions, this 21st century jury were  not convinced beyond reasonable doubt that he was the perpetrator and therefore believed that justice could only be served by his release.

Barrow Raiders School of The Week

 in Sport / Whole School by

Well, technically ‘School of the Week’, but we reckon ‘School of the Season!’ Have we ever had a better time or been looked after so well as at our visit to the Barrow Raiders ground in Barrow last Sunday. Almost 80 of us filled the stand and cheered and applauded as though lives depended on it. Tee, Anton and Ellis, who on Fridays can be seen training our little people on the Levens Playing Fields, were giving their all in front of a crowd of 2,400 supporters to come out victorious against fellow Cumbrian side, Workington.

The  children were involved at various stages through the game and the wonderful players could not have been kinder at the end of the match, signing as many autographs and posing for as many pictures as required!

 

 

Barrow Raiders Meet EYFS

 in Class One / PE / Whole School by

Over the last few weeks, Nursery and Reception have been learning some new skills and are beginning to understand more about this amazing game.

We can now name the different parts of a rugby ball, know how to throw and catch a rugby ball, can score a try and know how to ‘tag’ an opponent too!

Friday afternoons are so much fun with our amazing coaches!

 

 

A Shocking Series of Lessons

 in Class Four / Design and Technology / Science by

Class 4 have been getting stuck into their science topic this term by constructing electrical circuits! We’ve learned what a circuit needs in order to function, we’ve built a range of different circuits and we’ve also tested the impact of making changes to our circuits.

Once we’ve learned all we can, we will be using our Design and Technology skills to then build a “Steady Hand” game to take home. Take a look at the gallery below for a sneak-peek into our process!

Getting the Measure of the Situation

 in Class Four / Maths by

Class 4 have had a busy few weeks! Alongside SATs for our older pupils, we have also been getting out and about in the school grounds to answer the question “how can we measure that?”

To make sense of the world around us, it’s good to have a way of talking about the sizes of things. We could measure the distance of a line (perhaps in meters), the area of a 2d shape (meters squared) or the volume of a shape (meters cubed!) If we had a really awkward 3d shape, we could also measure its’ volume in liters.

We’ve been measuring all sorts of things in all sorts of ways – check out the pictures below to see what we’ve been up to!

Dallam Rounders Festival

 in Class Three / PE / Sport by

Yesterday Class 3 enjoyed a fantastic afternoon at the Dallam Primary Rounders Festival at Tristram’s Field. All the children gave 100% and participated with enthusiasm and determination. Mrs Brown and Miss Robinson were very impressed with their unstoppable energy and teamwork which resulted in some great wins over the course of the afternoon. The event was attended by other local schools and it was a great opportunity for the community to come together, get active and experience friendly competition.

Meet our new School Councillors

 in SCARF / Whole School by

Here are our new School Councillors who will be representing each year group in School over the next 12months.

Every pupil in school was given the opportunity to vote for the person they thought would listen to the views of others, be willing to work hard, have good ideas and be able to suggest ways to raise funds to support charities and improve our school.

More news from our team will follow soon!

Cricket Training

 in Class Three / PE by

Classes 3 and 4 really enjoyed their enrichment day of non stop cricket before Easter and this week welcomed the cricket coaches into school for the first of this half term’s weekly sessions. Lots of work on catching skills this week – thanks to Daisy for capturing these photos of your friends mid action on such a gorgeous sunny afternoon!

 

Fantastic fossils in EYFS!

 in Whole School by

 

Nursery and Reception children in EYFS have been turning detective this week and discovering all about fossils. The story ‘A girl called Mary’ kicked off our learning, introducing the famous fossil hunter Mary Anning. There has been much excitement watching videos about the process of fossilisation, thinking about what the animal or plant may have looked like whilst it was alive and hunting in our playground for fossils hidden in and around our walls. We also enjoyed investigating clay and using it to make our own imprint of a fossil using different resources from our classroom.

Finding Equivalents

 in Class Four / Maths by

Class 4 have been consolidating their knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages!

Using a range of activities, games and tasks we have been learning how to find how an amount can be written in more than three different ways!  There are always many ways to write equivalent fractions; but now we can also now find the corresponding percentage and decimal.