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Year 6 Celebrated their Last Celebration of the Word on Wednesday with a smashing description and exploration of the meaning and impact of Pentecost.

Year 6 are delighted to show off their latest fashion statement - their Leavers' hoodies!

Don't they look smart?!

This afternoon, Father John talked to us about the martyrs of England and Wales. He showed us some of the objects that priests who were martyred in Lancaster would have used, including a small 'altar', a chalice, a paten and a missal which was 500 years old! We saw where the martyrs would have…

As we continue to explore our 'States of Matter' topic, we have have been looking at alternatives to solids, liquids and gases. One of these is a 'non-newtonian fluid' that can easily be created using cornflour and water. It behaves like a solid when you apply pressure (push on it or roll it into…

FINALLY DONE IT!!!!

We can share with you the fun activities we got up to at Castlerigg at the beginning of the  month. Apologies for the time this has taken, but now you can enjoy them with your child. Hopefully it will remind them of all the amazing things they got up to!

Year 6 have completed their SATs with an exceptional display of hard work and resillence!

Well done Year 6!

Y1 love playing on the glockenspiels! We have enjoyed learning the notes for 'Your Imagination', a song we have learnt to sing in our music lessons.

Year 6 had an exciting Friday, watching Abi Mills finish as Mayor of Lancaster and pass the Mayorship onto Margaret Pattison!

It was an amazing opportunity to watch how democracy works in our townhall!

In our music lessons we are learning to play the glockenspiel using Charanga music programme. We play the notes along with the recorded music and have to keep time to the beat as well as listen to eachother! It can be tricky but we loved doing it. This will be part of our music lessons all term.

Year 6 were hard at it this week, trying to make a series of circuits with the least/most/different set of components they could!

After lots of trial and improvement, we even managed to make a working circuit with only 3 components!

Today we went into the playground to learn about compass directions, north, south, east and west. We had card with instructions on and used the compass to follow the instructions and find our way around. It was great fun!

Miss Bairaktari has been teaching us about capacity (how much a container is capable of holding) and volume (how much a container actually contains).

We measured water outside and sand inside and had to estimate first then check our answers.

We had great fun but it took a while to tidy up…