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• Congratulations to children from P3 who entered a poetry competition “Once Upon A Dream”. Their poems will be published in a book.

  Sat 24 Feb 2024
  

• Cockermouth Football Festival

  Thu 22 Feb 2024 Fiona Taylor

  Congratulations to our team of year 6 boys who represented Bridekirk Dovenby School at the football festival up at Cockermouth School today. They competed against six local schools and came out overall winners of the competition. They impressed Miss Rigg with their fantastic attitude and sportsmanship throughout the whole afternoon. There were six players on the pitch at any one time and they played four matches. Not a single goal was conceded and they scored a few stunning goals to seal their victory. 

  Well done boys and thank you to Miss Rigg for accompanying the team to Cockermouth School. 

  

• Y1 & Y2 children enjoyed a visit from our Jewish friend Sheila Gewolb

  Mon 19 Feb 2024 Mrs B Fletcher

  The Y1 and Y2 children were so excited to welcome Sheila Gewolb to talk to them yesterday afternoon. They've been learning about Passover and Shabbat in class and they were eager to find out more from our Jewish visitor.

   

  They all listened intently as Sheila reminded them of the story of Passover in her own words and they were very keen to ask questions. Sheila then talked about Shabbat and showed the children lots of Jewish items. The children loved looking at these, trying things on and asking even more questions. Then it was time to taste the Challah bread and the Matzo crackers. This caused a great deal of excitement! 

   

  What a fabulous afternoon of learning, consolidating what they'd already learnt in class and then adding to it by asking questions and looking at the Jewish items. 

   

  Thank you so much Sheila. We look forward to seeing you in school again soon. Shalom!

  

• Kung Hei Fat Choi from Reception

  Sat 17 Feb 2024 Mrs Smith

  As part of our 'Investigate' pathway, we have been learning about different celebrations all around the world.  We learned all about the Haft Sin table at Nowruz (Persian New Year) and the Hindu festival of Holi; we concluded with the Lunar New Year.  
   

  After reading the story of how the Jade Emperor named the years of the zodiac according to which animals crossed the river, we used puppets to re-enact the story ourselves and ordered the numerals to match.  Our artistic and dramatic skills have been used too, painting the Chinese dragon and role-playing a traditional Chinese celebration meal in the home corner.

  

• Red Team Treat

  Thu 08 Feb 2024 Mrs Fish

  Congratulations to the RED TEAM who were our team point winners last term. As a treat, they received hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows in the sensory garden. 

  Well done to the red team. 

  

• P3 perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Sensory Garden

  Wed 07 Feb 2024

  P3 have been studying William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We performed a scene from the play and used our garden to give an authentic set! 

  

• Number Day 2024

  Fri 02 Feb 2024 Fiona Taylor

  Children and staff dressed up in costumes relating to numbers today because it is NSPCC Number Day 2024. In assembly, they were discussing work that the NSPCC does and the children that are supported by the charity. A few number jokes were delivered by Year 6 children and we admired the different costumes that were worn by the children and the staff. 

  During the day, the children have been involved in many fun activities all connected with numbers. Baking, card games, board games, number investigations, PE games, bingo to name just a few.

  Well done everyone for making it such a great number day!

   

  

• Stone Age Enrichment - Stage 2

  Fri 02 Feb 2024 Fiona Taylor

  Following the workshop in school, the children in P4 and P5 had a day exploring Stone Age topic in the local area. They visited Castlerigg Stone Circle where guides from English Heritage told them all about the local legends around the stone circle and also talked about how the stones had actually been moved into the circle and where they came from.

  The next activity was a visit to Keswick Museum where they made a human timeline reinforcing their understanding of where the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age fitted into their history curriculum. They then attended some ‘hands-on’ workshops and acted as archaeologists finding Stone Age artefacts in the ground.