SJB Primary School

Year 1 have been learning how to paint on the iPads this week. They started off by painting self-portraits using the app Doodle Buddy. They then moved onto using the app Tayasui sketches to emulate different artists such as Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky and George Seurat. They used a range of brush strokes, tools and colours to create digital masterpieces.

Mr Lister came to visit Nursery on Friday morning. He popped in to meet the children and find out about the books they love to read. It didn’t take very long before he was surrounded by boys and girls wanting to share their favourite story. Eventually, he decided to read about the adventures of ‘Supertato’ and everyone loved hearing about how their favourite superhero saved the day for all the vegetables in the supermarket.

Thanks, Mr Lister. We loved having you in our class and hope you come again soon.

Year 2 have been busy making pizzas in DT today. We designed our pizzas, made them and then tasted them! We also practised our chopping skills.

It was the turn of Year 4 and 6 yesterday at cross country. We had two 2nd places and all of our runners were superb.

Year 2 have been busy working on collage in Art this week. They have learnt about overlapping and over layering. Today we created our final pieces of work.

Some of the children and staff attended the Remembrance Service at the Cenotaph in Ulverston last Sunday afternoon. This is an important service and we value being part of it. Eva Evans laid a wreath with her brother Daniel as part of the Scouts group. Tess Branton and Sophie O’Neill laid the wreath on behalf of Sir John Barrow School. Thank you to all those involved.

We had 2 brilliant victories in the cross country today as well as a host of 2nd and 3rd places.

We had runners taking part in their first event today. Nobody stopped and nobody gave up. We are delighted with how you raced.

A special mention to the children who ran in races with children who were older than they are. Coming 2nd and 1st in a race with older children is amazing!!

4 of our Year 6 pupils went to Barrow today for the School Games cycling event.

We have never participated in this event but you wouldn’t have know it.

The children cycled superbly. They all got a PB and won both of the relay races!!!

Excellent work Year 6. Sport is back!!!

Once again a huge thank you on behalf of Year 4 for donating to the ‘Boxes of Hope’ charity, which sees shoeboxes filled with such nice things safely delivered to some of Europe’s poorest children in Romania. A very special thank you to Sophie in Year 5 for knitting an amazing number of super hats for our boxes, we really are so VERY grateful, Sophie. You are amazing. Our Year 4 pupils had a lovely time wrapping the shoeboxes and filling them with ‘goodies’ so kindly funded by the wider SJB community. Most important of all we made sure to pack lots of love in to our boxes.

Year 2 have been looking at materials in their Science work this term. Today we tested which materials are absorbent and which are not.