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• National Poetry Day 2021in P1

  Tue 12 Oct 2021 Mrs Smith

  We had lots of giggles in P1 listening to some silly rhymes written by Spike Milligan.  Our favourite was definitely ‘On the Ning, Nang, Nong!’

  

• School Defibrillator

  Mon 11 Oct 2021 Mrs Fish

  Last week a photographer came to school to take some pictures of our new mobile defibrillator. A big 'thank you' to parents, Castlegate Surgery and McCarthy Stone who helped us secure the unit. 

  

• New Mobile Defibrillator

  Mon 11 Oct 2021 Mrs Fish

  Last week a photographer visited school to take some pictures of our new mobile defibrillator. A big thank you to parents, Castlegate Surgery and McCathy stone who help secure the unit.

• Primary 2 enjoyed some drama in RE on Friday

  Mon 11 Oct 2021 Mrs B Fletcher
  

• Netball in Primary 4

  Thu 30 Sep 2021 Mrs Stanley

  This half term in Primary 4 we've been loving our weekly netball session with coach Rob. We've been really enjoying getting outdoors and being active and have made great improvements with our passing and teamwork skills. We're a competitive bunch and love the excitement of little games and tournaments that we play as part of these lessons! 

  

• A Jewish visitor (via the magic of zoom!)

  Thu 30 Sep 2021 Mrs Stanley

  Although the pandemic continues to make it difficult to welcome visitors into school, Primary 4 were lucky enough to have Nina Leigh visit us on Zoom on Wednesday. Nina is Jewish and told us all about her faith. She showed us all sorts of Jewish artefacts and as we had some of these available in school we were able to explore and handle them too. She showed us how her family celebrate Shabbat every Friday and told us all about her synagogue. The children were able to ask lots of questions. This was a great opportunity to broaden our understanding of different faiths and will really contribute to our learning on Judaism in RE this half term. 

  

• Sports Day 2021

  Tue 13 Jul 2021

  Our annual sports day was a huge success. Red, green, yellow and blue team worked together in a variety of mixed and single races to see who this year’s sporting champions would be.

   

  Traditional favourites: egg and spoon and sack racing were among the races this year. As well as marathon and teachers races. Thank you to all involved and a special well done to the Green Team for being the overall winners. 

  

• Cockermouth Rotary Writing Competition Winners

  Mon 12 Jul 2021 Fiona Taylor

  Staff and students at Bridekirk Dovenby School were delighted this week to find out that two of their pupils have been awarded prizes in the Cockermouth Rotary Club’s writing competition.

  Phoebe Bell (Year 6) was the joint-winner overall across the seven schools that entered the competition for her enthralling account of delivering a lamb in Blindcrake.

  “Phoebe’s story was full of suspense and made for a brilliant read,” said her teacher Mrs Fiona Taylor. “Her excellent variety of sentence-structure, spelling and grammar also made her story stand out.”

  All Year 5 and 6 pupils across Cockermouth’s primary schools had been invited to enter the competition, writing a short piece entitled “My Happiest Day”. Bridekirk also enjoyed success in the Year 5 competition, with Keeva Postlethwaite coming in second place across the schools for her emotive tale about a trip up Scafell Pike with her family.

   Isobel Johnson (Year 6) and Benjamin Wareing (Year 5) were both awarded second place in the Bridekirk Dovenby entries.

  Despite Covid restrictions preventing a formal awards ceremony from the Rotary Club, students received certificates and prizes in school. Rotary Club Chair of Youth Services, Paul Lack, praised the quality of work this year from all students who entered the competition, saying that deciding the winners was a very difficult job indeed.

  Here is an extract from Phoebe’s story detailing the moment she realized that she would have to deliver a lamb herself.

  “The ewe delivered the first lamb; my heart was pounding with excitement but we quickly discovered, to our despair, that she wasn’t breathing.  Matty used all that we had learnt from his dad to resuscitate the lamb, but swiftly from the corner of my eye, I noticed the lamb was pushing again. It was twins!”

  

• Special delivery for Primary 1 👸🏼

  Mon 12 Jul 2021 Mrs Smith

  We were all very excited in Primary 1 this morning to receive an important looking envelope delivered by Mrs Davidson. The anticipation was too much and we were all thrilled to read this letter from HRH The Queen’s, Lady in Waiting. 
  Maybe we might get an invitation to a royal garden party one day. 🤞🏼

  

• P3 Kittens

  Fri 09 Jul 2021