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We had a smooth journey up the M6 to Lockerbie and the children have enjoyed their first activities. These included abseiling, axe throwing and orienteering! Everybody is very excited for the week ahead!
 

Today, we have been completing some group games and worked as a team. We had to listen, communicate and encourage each other. We used the parachute to work together as a whole class. We had a great time.

This week we have been learning about germs and how important it is to wash our hands. 

Welcome to all our new friends at Nursery. We are spending the first two weeks exploring resources and getting to know each other.

We have been thinking about what helps us to learn well. One thing we thought about was the importance of teamwork and so today we had a team challenge. Each table group had to create the longest paper chains they could from just two large pieces of coloured paper. The teamwork was…

Our first week in school, we have been making new friends, learning the school rules and having fun. 

Today Steve from Life Education came to teach us about our amazing brains. We also thought about how to make sensible decisions and how to be good friends. We loved meeting Harold the Giraffe again!

We are learning about graffiti art this half-term and today we made our own graffiti art names. We created a 3-D effect by adding shading and tried to choose bright, contrasting colours. We are really proud of our pictures and hope you like them too!

We enjoyed learning about our wonderful bodies. We learnt about the different foods we should eat and how to keep our bodies healthy. 

This morning, we said a big Scotforth St Paul’s goodbye to Mr Cocker and Mr Barnacle.

In their final week at Scotforth, Year 6 have taken part in a First Aid Course designed by the Red cross, specifically for primary age children. They looked at what to do if they came across someone who had a suspected broken bone, was bleeding heavily, had banged their head, had a burn, was…

Congratulations to all of the children across the school who achieved their black Karate Reading band this year for fantastic reading at home.  Today they had a treat morning! We played on the parachute, did a book trail, a book quiz and finally we enjoyed ice-cream in the sun! It was lovely…