Today, year 3 children were treated to a number of Stone Age visitors to our school.

Children spent the day learning about Stone Age hunting equipment, the types of plants neolithic man used to forage, and also had the chance to make crayon rubbings of stone age artwork and create clay pottery.

Today, the Travel Tracker mascot visited our school and ran around the school yard with the children.

Travel Tracker have one ambition: that every child that can, walks to school. The children have been receiving lots of awesome prizes for their efforts over the last couple of months, with one whole class winning a game of Twister each, and one lucky child winning an iPad!

For more information, visit www.livingstreets.org.uk

The past week has been full of lots of fun Christmas activities. There have been visits to Santa, a trip to the Epstein theatre to see Sleeping Beauty, a visit from those talented  musicians, Travelling By Tuba and not forgetting our brilliant party day.

Scroll down to see photographs from all the wonderful Nativity performances that have taken place over the past couple of weeks.

Year 1.

Year 2.

Years 3 and 4.

Years 5 and 6.

The children in year 3 have had an amazing time at Park Palace Ponies where they have been riding some magnificent horses and grooming some beautiful ponies.

KS2 children took part in interactive anti-bullying workshops run by Mrs. Bernia. We had lots of fun, plus plenty of thought provoking discussion.

A  group of children from year five took part in the Dance Festival at St. John Bosco. They performed an excellent routine that got everybody’s toes tapping.

Thursday 15th November was the final day of our two week readathon. Over the past two weeks we have focused even more on reading and our parents were invited to join their children to read in the library. On Thursday we had our drop everything and read day. Children were able to come to school in their pyjamas, for a small donation to Alder Hey Hospital, and there were lots of reading related activities including drop everything and read. This meant that at various times during the day an announcement was made for everyone to “Drop everything and read!”.

There was an assembly this week to remind us of why we wear poppies at this time of year.

Ever since the first Remembrance Day, people have followed the same tradition: every year on 11th November they stop for a short moment of silence and reflection. Poppies became used as a way to remember soldiers who died in battle, because of how the flowers sprung up and grew on the barren battlefields of World War One.

  

It looks like the year 6 children who spent the week at Coniston Water had a fantastic time. I’m sure there will be even more photographs to come.