LIFE EDUCATION BUS
The whole school was treated in May to a visit form the Life Education Bus. The bus is a mobile classroom that children are invited onto to cover lessons relating to themselves and growing up. The children work with Sarah Peck the Life Education tutor and her puppet, Harold the camel. This is the third year the bus has visited the school and we think the children benefit greatly from this stimulating learning environment.
CARLISLE UNITED
At the end of April the whole school was involved in a sponsored skills afternoon with Carlisle United's community coaches. The Year 3 / 4 children had received 6 weeks coaching and all the children spent a glorious sunny afternoon working on their skills. Incredibly we managed to raise over £800, which is shared between the school and Carlisle United, and will help us to pay for the coaching sessions as well as pay for some extras. Carlisle United also treated us to a hold of their newly won cup as they have been promoted back into the football league; all the children had their photos taken with James and John our community coaches and the cup.
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KEEPING DIVERSITY ON TRACK
The Year 5 / 6 class have been on a visit to Appleby on the train as part of a project we are involved in called keeping Diversity on track, the project links various schools that are situated along the Carlisle to Settle railway line. We are looking forward to hosting a visit from Appleby and Armathwaite School in the future.
ASDA VISIT
All of the Infants children have been on a visit to Asda, to make pizzas and have a tour around the store. We were very proud to be told by the Asda staff that the behaviour of our pupils was very impressive.
GIRLS FOOTBALL
A group of 8 girls were entered into the Small school’s girls football tournament at Robert Ferguson’s School, the girls played exceptionally well and ended up winning the tournament. They were then given free tickets to the opening match at the Women’s European Championship in Manchester on June 5th
COURTNEY PINE AT THE SAGE
The Junior children were recently treated to a free visit to the Sage Theatre at Gateshead, to watch a performance by world famous saxophonist, Courtney Pine. The trip also combined a visit to the Angel of the North.
RUGBY TOURNAMENT
A group of children recently took part in a Rugby tournament held at Carlisle Rugby ground, although we didn’t win any matches the team played very well.
KWIK CRICKET
Our Kwik Cricket team have been competing in tournaments against other schools, the girls Kwik Cricket team is due to take place in a tournament very soon as the original date had to be postponed due to bad weather.
TENNIS COACHING
Children from Year 1 –6 have been having weekly tennis coaching sessions with Lyle Timmins from the Cumbria Lawn Tennis Club, the grand finale will take place in June at the Bitts park tennis club when it re opens after the floods.
YEAR 6 LEAVERS
Once again we say a sad goodbye to our Year 6 who have had a superb year in many ways; their excellent SATs results, their many dances, trips to Waterpark and sense of fun will always be fondly remembered. We marked the end of their year with a special leavers assembly where Ben Caits and Lauren Moynan won the achievement trophies. They were then taken to Shanghai Shanghai for a treat and received Memory Books from the Governors. We wish them all the very best next year and hope they’ll come back and see us sometime.
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SINGING STARS
All the children at Petteril Bank School became budding pop stars, when we all worked together with a company called Singing Stars to record a CD of some of our favourite songs. Old favourites such as Down in the Jungle, Thank you for my friends and I am a greedy crocodile were included as well as several Beatles numbers. The parents had the chance to purchase a copy of the CD as a memento of the children’s time at our school.
FUN DAY
The children are helped to organise a Fun Day on 22nd June to help raise money for the school trips later in the term. We had refreshments, face painting, raffles, tombolas, Carlisle United penalty shoot out, a pet show, ice cream van, a bouncy castle, donkey rides, cake stalls, a visit from the Fire Service, we raised nearly £400 in total.
KRAZY KREW
As part of a small school collaborative project we have joined forces with Orton CE Primary School and Tebay Community School and went to visit them on Friday June 7th to see a performance by the Krazy Krew. Children from Tebay School have already visited our school last year and this will also give us an opportunity to have a look at their school. We also had a picnic and a walk along Orton Scar before returning to school.
ZOZO AND SAM
Two African drummers spent the morning with us teaching us rhythms and patterns on the djembe drums. We all had a go and hope to be able to work with them again in the future and build up our drumming skills.
THEATRE VISIT
The whole school was treated to a visit from the Ramshackle Theatre Company who performed their play Tattered Tales in our new hall.
MULTI CULTURAL WEEK
As part of the City Council’s multi cultural week in July the school was lucky to be included in a programme of activities that saw us taking part in mendhi hand pattern workshops, several of the staff had beautiful patterns henered onto their feet and hands.
SCHOOL SPORTS DAY
Our school sports day took place on a mixed day in July, but luckily the weather stayed kind to us, we had a series of 10 events that the children rotated around in mixed age teams and then traditional running races. Thanks go to the staff, parents and ice cream van who all helped to provide refreshments.
CITY SPORTS
We entered the city sports event held at Caldew School in Dalston, many of the junior age children took part, however, the second days events had to be cancelled due to bad weather. Special mention goes to Thomas Dowell who came first in the throwing event.
ROBIE DEE
During the last week of term we were visited by Robbie Dee, CFM Radio DJ, to record his weekly event called School Call, the children had no problem convincing Robbie of just how loud they can be, and asked him many exciting questions such as; Why are you bald? And have you met anybody famous? The recording was on air on Friday 22nd July in the morning.
SILVERBAND FALCONRY
The whole school has recently had a visit form Silverband Falconry; Richard bought with him Bertie a large Eagle Owl, Flo a Peregrine Falcon, a Kestrel and a 4-week-old baby Barn Owl called Princess. The children were given a talk first of all as Richard showed each of the birds, the classes were then treated to a visit from Princess and were given the chance to have a stroke of her. Later in the day Richard gave a flying demonstration in the hall with Flo. |
