Blog by Jennifer Elliott

Reception are donating one of their mud kitchens to children in another Reception Class at a school in Barrow called Brisbane Park. We cleaned it first to make sure it looks all new and looked at the class page on Brisbane Park's website to see who will be playing with it. It made us all smile…

Well done to everyone who qualified for the Cumbria Schools Cross Country competition and competed in Penrith today. Everyone ran amazingly in tough conditions and attitudes were outstanding. An amazing afternoon cheering on our friends from Roose and other Furness Schools. We are so proud of you…

Well done to everyone who took part in the Girls Football Tournament at Furness Academy. Some amazing football played by all in the very cold weather. Hot chocolate and a biscuit to warm up back at school

Reception have enjoyed investigating ice today in our outdoor area. We discussed what ice turns into when it melts, what ice was before it turned to ice, how we get ice, what makes ice melt. We made predictions and investigated how to make ice melt quicker. We found out that ice melted quicker in…

Reception are settling in well to the new year. We have worked as a team to make a huge 2024 display in the playground and made calendars to take home. 

Well done to the daily mile champions for the autumn term. 

We've had a busy couple of weeks back after half term in Reception Class. We have introduced our new class text, I'm Going to Eat this Ant, and done lots of lovely learning around the text. We have managed to squeeze in some lovely Halloween, Bonfire Night and Remembrance activities too. Well done…

Well done to the year 5 and 6 football team who played amazing this afternoon. Thank you Furness Academy for hosting.

Reception are enjoying our All About Me topic and making new friends / settling in.

Reception are already getting so good at getting changed for PE and are enjoying our PE lessons

Reception have been practising subitising, counting to 20, ordering numbers to 20 and making teen numbers with numicon.