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In recent years we have attended the Carlisle Diocese Leavers’ Service at the Cathedral in Carlisle.

This year the Year 6 pupils had an enjoyable trip from Dent station on the Settle-Carlisle line. Travelling in this way seemed to enhance the sense of connection between the two places and added to to the feeling that the service is an important way marker as the pupils prepare to move onto their new schools.

It was especially fitting to think about a special journey that connected us with other pupils and schools across the diocese, as the day also gave us an opportunity to visit the ‘Labyrinth’ art exhibition that the Class 2 pupils had contributed a tile to. Seeing our tile as part of the wider labyrinth was a striking visual reminder of our connections to other schools and communities, and pupils really enjoyed seeing the finished work.

To top it all off we had a delicious lunch in Carlisle; and we were even treated to an Ice-Cream on the way home.

This week Class 1 have welcomed some special visitors into their classroom.
The children are currently learning about life cycles and so are now housing a group of caterpillars who will eventually undergo metamorphosis into butterflies.
The class 1 students are all very excited and each morning they have a chance to write in their caterpillar diaries, where they are able to record how much that have grown and what they are looking like, alongside their carefully drawn observations.

Today KS2 visited a Casterton Athletics competition. Everyone took part in individual under 9 and under 11 boys and girls events, as well as the field events, which included relay races. Even in the summer’s heat, everyone performed fantastically and should be really proud of themselves!👏

There is always some work to be done within the Dent School grounds, which our gardening clubbers are always keen to lend their green fingers to. Recently they’ve been doing some fantastic jobs (accompanied by the wonderful Barbara) within the flower & vegetable beds. I heard some people even went home with some home-grown rhubarb?!

Today as a school we celebrated the Queens Platinum Jubilee. The children all dressed up in red, white and blue or their most special clothing. We had a celebratory picnic lunch, where we were joined by Joycelyn Manners-Armstrong & Scott Thornley from the Parish Council, who kindly gifted the children with commemorative Platinum Jubille £5 coins. Class 1s even made their own royal crowns and spent the morning researching the Queen & the Royal family.

We would also like to say a massive thank you to Dipped Treats, who very kindly donated the beautiful personalised cupcakes for our Jubilee picnic! They looked and tasted amazing!

Within Art, Class 2 have been using clay to sculpt and decorate their own clay vessel. This was in relation to one of their recent History topics, Ancient Egypt. The pupils individually researched and designed their own clay vessel to replicate the vessels which the Ancient Egyptians would have made and used to store organs from mummified pharaohs within the tombs. Once made and dried out, the pupils had an opportunity to decorate them. This was done with acrylic paints and has allowed all the children’s own artistic styles to shine through whilst reflecting the historical context of the pieces.

Today, Class 1 had their class assembly. This half term, the pupils are focusing on compassion, therefore this was their main focus of Class 1’s assembly this morning.

Together they read ‘Hugless Douglas’. This is a sweet story about a bear who wakes up one morning in need of a hug, so he goes out in search of one. This allowed for the pupils to have an open conversation about times when they felt like they were in need of a hug, and about how we can offer compassion to others when they are having a bit of a bad day, or feeling down.

This ended up with a whole class hug! It definitely got our day started off right and put a smile on everyone’s face!

Our first club of the week starts with Woodwork Club! Run and supervised by Mrs Umpleby, class 1 use their creativity and sawing skills to create their own individual wooden sculptures by using clamps, saws and hammers. Their most recent project has been making a hedgehog house together which can now be found outside in the field, where the children can check up on it regularly to see if we’ve had any visitors! 🦔