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• 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.

  

• KS2 Stone Age Day

  Wed 31 Jan 2024

  ‘Woodmatters’ delivered an inspiring, hands-on educational Stone Age workshop to all the children in KS2. The session formed a great stimulus for discussion and debate around the topic the children have been studying in history this term.

  They had the opportunity to make their own axe, createsome rock art and learned about early human life and survival. 

  Thank you to Lorraine and Emma for providing hot chocolate to warm us up as it was f-f-f-reezing cold!
  (For all pictures, please see your class Seesaw pages) 

  

• Skiing 2024

  Mon 29 Jan 2024

  On Saturday 27th January, a group of 120 children from primary schools in Cumbria set off on the Cumbria Primary Schools’ ski trip to Artesina, Italy. Mrs Fish, our headteacher, has accompanied 14 children from Bridekirk Dovenby School - 9 from year 6 and 5 from year 5.

  They have had an action packed first day, all participating at different levels depending on their experience. Some children from Bridekirk are going for the second year and for others it is their first experience of a school trip abroad. We are looking forward to hearing all about the trip and their adventures in the snow! For more pictures and videos please click on this LINK.

  

• Snow Fun

  Wed 17 Jan 2024 Fiona Taylor

  First snow fall of the year - not much, but enough to have some fun on the playground. The snow encouraged collaborative play as children worked together to build structures quickly before the snow melted.

  Sadly, there weren’t any additional flurries before lunchtime to make more snowmen but at least they’d had fun playing with the thin covering on the playground at first break.

  It’s still early in the year so maybe we’ll have another snow day with, hopefully, enough snow to sledge in! 

  

• Reading Awards December 2023

  Tue 19 Dec 2023

  At Bridekirk Dovenby School reading is prioritised and the staff work tirelessly to ensure as many pupils read for pleasure as much as possible. There are a variety of different ways teachers do this. Class readers are carefully chosen to inspire children to read sequels, book corners are attractive and promote feature authors, Spellbinding competition attracts groups of children as they strive for the passport and children can earn points in Accelerated Reader. A more recent initiative is the weekly delivery of First News to satisfy the needs of children who like to keep up-to-date with what’s happening in the real world! Teachers read children’s fiction so they can make recommendations. What next? 

  

• A Little Princess

  Fri 15 Dec 2023 Fiona Taylor

  Children in KS2 enjoyed a trip  to the Theatre by the Lake, in Keswick, to watch A Little Princess.

  Sara Crewe travelled from the freedom of a childhood in India to a boarding school in a cold dark corner of northern England. Just as she began to build a brighter world for herself and her friends some devastating news arrived from home and her life took a terrible turn.

  Meanwhile, our storyteller, Ramdas, was on his way from faraway Shimla with a twist in the tale that changed everything. He searched for  the girl with a strong heart and a head full of wild imaginings before it was too late. It was great to see a couple of parts in the play being played by ex pupils from our school 

  

• Fantastic Performance

  Sat 09 Dec 2023 Fiona Taylor

  All the children in Year 4,5 and 6 put on an amazing performance of Rock Bottom at the Carnegie Theatre in Workington. Martha, James and Blair played the parts of the Cobblestones, just an ordinary Stone Age family of cave folk living on Stoney Street, Rock Bottom! Bobby Cobblestone hatched his very first good idea; he was whisked off to work for none other than the beautiful celebrity Lady Lava - played by Amelia.  Unfortunately, BC was soon up to his neanderthal neck in trouble when he discovered his new boss was hiding  a dark secret. With mysterious monsters terrorising the town and a volatile volcano ready to blow its top, five Juan’s trying to sell rocks to caveys - what could go wrong?