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 Lakes Pupil Parliament logo competition.

Well done to all of our children who took part int he South Lakes District Cross Country, hosted at Sedbergh Prep School, Casterton. The conditions were challenging but all of our teams came in the top 4 with 26 schools represented.  Some of the children who were placed will qualify for County finals very soon.

Thank you to Bishop James who joined us for our 30th Anniversary of being on the present site in Kirkby Lonsdale. Primary education started as the subscription school in 1856 and then the establishment of the National School in 1858 and finally due to increasing numbers, the opening of our current school in Dec 1986.   At the time Bishop David formally opened the school and we invited Bishop James to join us, marking this special celebration.  Bishop James formally opened our Learning pod with Mrs Ormston and planted a Christmas tree to mark the occasion.   All of the children received a wooden key ring especially engraved to recognise the 30th Anniversary.

Wow – We have had a wonderful time in London exploring Democracy by visiting the Houses of Parliament. We also explored London (on foot) and finally taking a tour on the London Eye. During our visit to The Palace of Westminster we met Chris Mason from the BBC and Tim Farron, our MP and Leader of the Liberal Democrats. The tour of the House of Lords and House of Commons was a real highlight learning new facts and enabling us to have a perspective that not many people have of the debating chambers.

Please come and visit our Nursery and/or Reception class on November 30th. We will be having coffee in the hall from 9:00 and inviting parents  and their children to explore the Early Years unit at 9:30am.  All families are welcome.

Year 3 and 4 have held our inter-house netball tournament on a wonderful Autumnal, sunny afternoon! Congratulations to Middleton House – Winners of the tournament this year!

Starting on the 17th October we are holding a full week of exciting activities to celebrate reading. Our theme throughout the week are books written by Roald Dahl. 2016 represents 100 since the birth of Roald Dahl. Each class will be celebrating a different Roald Dahl book and discovering about the author.

On Thursday 20th October we will be dressing up as a Roald Dahl character and straight after school the PTA will be hosting a KS1 and KS2 Film Night showing two Roald Dahl films.

Thank you to all of the children in Nursery who have created a lovely display in Church to celebrate Harvest.  We celebrated Harvest at St Mary’s Church and Reception and Nursery will be having their own Harvest in school on Monday 10th October.

What a superb hockey practice today with our coach Danny Harper who explored reverse stick with us today. We worked really hard both in lessons and then built on this in Hockey Club after school. Well done Year 5 and 6!

Well done to Erin who has received her fourth Blue Peter badge. Erin wrote a story about the Blue Peter animals and received the silver badge. Well done Erin.