Year 1

We are having a wonderful week experimenting with different materials. We have explored the different materials and their properties in the Year 1 scrap heap! We have also  helped the three little pigs by exploring the best materials for a roof. It needs to be waterproof! We have also dressed up as scientists and explorers. […]

We have been celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight by holding a big brew, we made cups and coffees for our visitors and Year 6 pupils helped sell fairly traded products. In worship time we looked at the trade of cocoa and bananas and encouraged children to discuss issues  relating to fair trade with adults at home. Thank […]

Year 1 visited the Museum of Lakeland Life in Kendal. We explored all the rooms and discussed how homes in the past were very different to our homes today. At the museum we saw a bath in front of the fire, a kitchen range, a grandfather clock and a four poster bed. We explored stories, […]

We celebrated World Book Day by dressing in our pyjamas and onesies for a giant sleepover party, where we read bed time stories to each other. We also had a mass drawathon, where we drew our favourite story book characters. It was lovely to see all the children working together and we had a lovely […]

Here is another opportunity to follow the exciting world that is St Mary’s CE School. We are launching our twitter account this week. https://twitter.com/StMarysKL Why not follow everything we are doing!  

Year 1 visited the church for a baptism. Reverend Snow demonstrated how to baptise a baby. Everyone had a go at putting a cross on the dolls forehead and they used a shell to scoop the water.

We built fairy gardens using all the bits and pieces we could find. The children were highly creative and very inspired. Their gardens got bigger and bigger with ponds, baths, bird feeders, zip wires and long paths. The children even wrote notes for their fairies …and the fairies wrote back, overnight. The children were very […]

School Council have been debating this week about improvements to our school. We have agreed to spend £2000 on improving the infant play area.  We will be buying two new houses for the playground. School council will also be launching a competition to design a logo for the school council and take part in the South […]

Mrs Gill brought in her pat snake Reggie. We were fascinated by Reggie’s red tongue and eyes. When she got cold she tried to bury herself behind Mrs Gill’s ears. We asked some very interesting questions.

In Year 1 we have been telling lots of tales. We are very good at acting out the story of The Enormous Turnip and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have to use BIG voices and think what a character might say. At the end of the story we give a bow or a curtsey […]