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Today we have used our own plans to create a moving model with a cam mechanism. We have designed a background and a foreground which compliments our moving figure. All of are ideas are based on our theme of Journeys. 

We have had our first lesson with Coach Dan learning how to bowl. Once we had learned the basics we had a competition to see who was the first person to get 11 points. Well done to Alfie, who was our winner. Congratulations to Kacey who bowled the best ball of the afternoon. We are already looking…

Having won the district dodgeball competition at the Salt Ayre Sports Festival in May, a team of 8 boys travelled to Blackpool as part of "Team Lancaster" to represent the area at the Lancashire School Games in Stanley Park. The dodgeball tournament was designed to be a participation event, so we…

We are learning about different measures and today we focused on mass. We estimated before we weighed the different objects. We found our estimations improved the more that we did it.

We had great fun today trying out wheelchair basketball in the hall. We played 4v4 mini games. Thanks to Owen, Oliver and Xavier for letting our teacher team win. 

We had a taster session of wheelchair basketball this afternoon which was great fun!

What a fun morning we had playing wheelchair basketball. 

This morning, Year 3 walked to Williamson Park. It was very rainy but we persevered with the walk and made it. When we got there, we had a talk in The Butterfly House, learning about the rainforest habitat. We then got to handle a hissing cockroach, stroke a bearded dragon and have a skink sit on…

In Science we have been learning a lot about plants and what they need in order to grow well.  A few weeks ago we all planted a seed or a bulb so we could compare which grew the best.  We discovered that the seeds tended to germinate the fastest but then the bulbs caught up and ended up…

Year 4 learned all about rivers last term, but today they had the chance to take a journey down the River Lune, from its source at Newbiggin-on-Lune in Cumbria all the way down to the estuary beyond Glasson Dock. We started off at St. Helen's Well - the source of the Lune - just outside the…

We all took part in our annual sports morning. The children were fantastic and competed brilliantly. We also saw some pre-schoolers racing and my all time favourite… the Mums/Dads and Grandparents race! 
Well done to Castle Reds who won