Please find all recent letters that have been sent home from school below:
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Year 6 Residential-Patterdale Hall, Lake District
Monday 24th March to Wednesday 26th March 2025.
We are delighted to announce that we have been successful in booking the facilities at Patterdale Hall in the North Lakes for our Year 6 residential visit for March 2025.
Patterdale Hall is a wonderful stately home, set in its own extensive grounds, based between the fells of the Lake District and next to Lake Ullswater. The new residential site offers us an extremely varied outdoor activity programme, fantastic food and accommodation.
Click here to look at the Patterdale Hall website
Please click on the link for the letter about the Year 6 Patterdale Hall Residential in March 2025.
If you wish to book a place on the Year 6 Residential Visit, please complete the slip on the letter below and return to it the school office with a deposit of £25 (non-refundable) before Friday 22nd November.
Please see the back of the letter for a payment plan (November-March)
Thank you
Miss Johnston
Upcoming Trips.
Please complete and return the relevant permission slip and send payment into school as soon as possible. Also, please note the times children need to be in school, when they are back and the equipment they need for their trip.
Click the titles of each trip to be redirected to the websites of where the children are going to visit.
Class 6 Trip to Eureka Children's Museum - Liverpool - Wednesday 22nd January
As part of this terms topic covering the circulatory system/human body, Year 6 will be visiting Eureka Children’s Museum in Liverpool, on Wednesday 22nd January. The children will be able to look around the extensive galleries including “All about Me”, a look into how our body works.
Year 1 Trip to Wild Discovery – Ribby Hall Village - Wednesday 29th January
As part of this terms science topic, children from year 1 will be visiting Wild Discovery Park on Wednesday 29th January. Whilst at the Discovery Park, children will take part in a unique variety of activities, whilst learning about animals in their habitats.
Year 2 trip to Blackburn Museum - Thursday 30th January
As part of this terms topic on Victorian Toys, year 2 will be visiting Blackburn Museum on Thursday 30th January.
Whilst at the Museum their visit will be divided into three parts; first, they will look at toys, both old and new and explore the ways in which we can tell ‘old’ from ‘new’. At the same time the children will learn how the old toys were played with and have a go themselves before, finally, sitting down and making their own toy to take back to school.
Upcoming Events
School closes on Friday 14th February 2025 and reopens on Monday 24th February 2025
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