Patterdale C of E Primary School
A loving family in a unique environment
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There's never a dull moment here at Patterdale CofE Primary School, and to prove it here's a few photos showing what our pupils have been up to. You can see these pics and a whole lot more by visiting our Facebook page, just click the link on our homepage!
What an absolute blast the children had with the London Festival Opera this afternoon, so much fun! (Mar 2025)
Our junior team battled it out with five other Cumbrian schools in the First Lego League competition in Workington this week, and we're so proud of how brilliant they were! Through great motivation, determination, resilience and team work they won the Robot Performance Award! (Mar 2025)
Keldas Class loved learning about the different habitats of the animals and creatures at Racy Ghyll Farm! (Mar 2025)
While the weather has been dry this week, one of our families has been arriving at school by environmentally friendly means. As you do. (Mar 2025)
We're so proud of our amazing junior climbers who performed AMAZINGLY at the Eden Rock bouldering heats and never gave up no matter how hard the routes were! Oh, and the best bit is that.... THEY'RE THROUGH TO THE FINALS! Woop! (Mar 2025)
Our Year 5 & 6 pupils had a fantastic time on their city residential to Newcastle upon Tyne where they dived into science at the Centre For Life; attended prayer at the Newcastle Central Mosque; saw The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe at the Theatre Royal; and soaked in the atmosphere at St James Park. (Feb 2025)
Our MP Tim Farron visited school and was grilled on all things political by Helvellyn class! (Feb 2025)
Keldas class learned all about the Hindu festival of Holi. Part of their celebration is to throw coloured paint at each other! (Feb 2025)
Our budding Lego engineers had a great day with John from Sellafield. He helped the children put in the first steps of preparation for this years Lego League competition. (Feb 2025)
Our Helvellyn pupils have been helping plant trees at Ullswater Catchment Management’s Eusemere project, creating an all-in-one wildlife corridor, stock shelter and erosion preventer! (Feb 2025)
We would like to say a massive thank you to the volunteers from The Good Gym (all 38 of them), what an amazing help they were! (Jan 2025)
The juniors visited Rheged to see the ‘Everest Revisited’ exhibition sharing lesser-known Everest stories, 'firsts' and Cumbrian connections. (Jan 2025)
The children love it when Gordon pops along in the Book Bus! (Jan 2025)
Coach Lucy Monk is teaching our awesome Year 5 & 6 pupils how to be sports leaders!
Fun in the snow! (Dec 2024)
Ice skating at Another Place... what a laugh! (Dec 2024)
The children had a lovely Christmas lunch followed by our Christingle service at St Patrick's! (Dec 2024)
Keldas class have been learning how to whittle safely today using potato peelers! (Nov 2024)
For Type 1 Diabetes Awareness Day, one of our year 4 children told us about living with diabetes and the symptoms to look out for - the four T's- thirst, thin, toilet and tired. (Nov 2024)
Helvellyn Class had a great time bouldering at Eden Rock today! (Oct 2024)
We love the library bus! (Oct 2024)
Helvellyn are learning about the Anglo Saxons in history. Today we had a go at making traps to catch our supper. (Oct 2024)
Today we were given the keys to our new Community Minibus by Chris and Zack from the Inn Collection Group, thank you thank you thank you! (Oct 2024)
As part of our work on Harvest Keldas class have been looking at where our food comes from. We have packets of food from all over the world, such as Japan, Poland, Brazil, Portugal and many more. (Oct 2024)
Thank you so much to all who came to help us cater for the Hodgson Brothers Mountain Relay, and also to those who provided cake, soup and sandwiches. (Oct 2024)
Today Keldas class went to Gowbarrow farm for the morning. We had an absolutely fabulous time. Thank you so much to Sam and Claire! (Sept 2024)
Helvellyn have been on the hunt for fungi this afternoon! (Sept 2024)
We were fortunate enough last week to stumble upon two brass musicians who are touring all the churches in Cumbria. They are called Expedition Brass and St Patrick's was their 98th church. We spent a very enjoyable time listening to them playing a variety of tunes. Thank you Expedition Brass for a super experience! (Sept 2024)
Keldas class went to visit the fire station in Patterdale. Andrea, Clare, Gosia and Tom did a fabulous job of showing us all the different parts of the fire engine, telling us what their job entailed and of course we got to try out the hose. Thank you for a super morning! (Sept 2024)
Helvellyn Class visited the Natonal Trust Hydro Station at Hartsop as part of their science work on electricity. Stephen showed us round the hydro and explained how it generates electricity using the water from Hayeswater. Thank you Stephen for a great and informative visit! (Sept 2024)
Keldas were out and about again this afternoon collecting more geography information. We passed this tree and couldn't resist having a climb! (Sept 2024)
Keldas class took advantage of the lovely weather today to get out and about for geography. We were looking at what the buildings in Patterdale are used for. We of course had to stop at Side Farm tearooms on the way! Thank you very much Andrea for the ice creams, just what we needed on such a warm day! (Sept 2024)
Today we have had a go at whistling with blades of grass. We made some interesting noises! Our plant of the week was the bramble. We learnt all about the bramble plant, went brambling and after school club used some of the brambles to paint with. (Sept 2024)
As part of RE we have been looking at the different faiths around the world. One of the activities carried out was to create our own versions of Islamic tiles. (Sept 2024)
We all celebrated each other's uniqueness by painting a pebble fish in our own unique way. Each one was totally different and fabulous! (Sept 2024)
What a great way to start the new academic year, a walk down to the lake to create our own crosses for RE! (Sept 2024)
Today we said goodbye to our amazing, resilient, confident and downright awesome Year 6 Leavers, we'll miss you guys! (July 2024)
Thank you to Nicky Merrett at Hiking Highs for running a fantastic Boundary Walk -Beat the Bounds - to raise money for the church and school! (July 2024)
Our fab Year 6 leavers enjoyed a hike up Helvellyn to celebrate their last few days at school! (July 2024)
Our charity run raised an amazing £359 for Childrens Cancer North, well done kids! (July 2024)
Well done to all of the juniors from Patterdale and seven other local schools who ran in the Inter-School Cross Country Competition! (July 2024)
What a fab time the juniors had at their residential at Derwent Hill! (July 2024)
Thank you very much to all the volunteers who came to help sell refreshments at the Ullswater Country Fair today, we raised an amazing £1700! (June 2024)
Year 5 and 6 took part in an amazing open water swimming session at Fell Foot. Thanks to Jacqui @ Waterwise for a brilliant morning. It is great to know that the children have the skills and knowledge to keep themselves safe in our magnificent lakes. (June 2024)
Helvellyn have been building using wood today. We learnt how to measure and cut accurately and join our wood together using nails.(June 2024)
Helvellyn Class had a great time at Penruddock School's Rounders Competition! (June 2024)
Here's our latest Together Magazine article! (May 2024)
A huge thank you to Tom Palmer for coming in and talking to Helvellyn class about being an author and about his latest book 'The Grasmere Angel'. #tompalmerauthor
We are incredibly proud of our Year 6 and how they just took last week's SATs in their stride. We celebrated with ice creams from Side Farm. Thank you Andrea! (May 2024)
We have hatched and reared five gorgeous Shetland Ducks this year, they're living with us until half term! (May 2024)
Keldas class have been learning how to tie knots today and have tied a larks foot and a reef knot. We then had a go at lashing two sticks together using both of our new knots! (May 2024)
Thank you so much to Kirsty Dixon at Westmorland & Furness Council who has worked with us through the Safer Roads project to improve road safety! We have speed signs, road crossing equipment and now some lovely roadside signs! (April 2024)
What a great start to the Summer Term! Our juniors enjoyed a trip to Vindolanda to kick off their new history topic! (April 2024)
We have such an amazing community here in the dale! Thank you to everyone who donated their clothes recycling to raise funds for the school and the Great North Air Ambulance Service! (April 2024)
Miss Reay's class went to see the lambs at Side Farm, thank you Andrea! (April 2024)
Gardening fun! (April 2024)
At last the school has 26 lovely PV panels generating power every day! (April 2024)
Thank you for all the donations of toys and uniform, as you can see here the uniform is now being worn by children in Uganda!(April 2024)
The whole school, from nursery to year 6, walked the 2 miles to Glencoyne Bay today, to see Wordsworth's daffodils (March 2024)
We love it when Ruth & Fajita visit! (March 2024)
Reverend Andrew showed the children what happens during a baptism service (March 2024)
Our awesome Karate Kidz! (March 2024)
Another Lego League outing! (March 2024)
Guitar & Uke time with Mr Stewart! (March 2024)
Wheelchair basketball time, such a great sport for the children to enjoy and learn from! (March 2024)
Well done to our juniors who did fantastically at this year's Eden Rock competition! (March 2024)
Xylophone fun! (Feb 2024)
Awesome Elmer artwork by our lovely nursery trio! (Jan 2024)
What a great trip to Carlisle Cathedral our juniors had! (Jan 2024)
Thanks to Steve for helping the children put our new balance bikes together! #parentpower! (Jan 2024)
Reverend Andrew showed the children his church vestments and even allowed them to be modelled! (Jan 2024)
Snow fun! (Jan 2024)
Thank you Keswick School for another fab French lesson! (Jan 2024)
The Year 6s did a great job decorating the Christmas Tree! (Dec 2023)
Red Nose Day shenanigans! (Nov 2023)
The children created this amazing poppy picture for Remembrance Day (Nov 2023)
Toda the children wore blue for Diabetes Month! (Nov 2023)
Well done to the Year 5 & 6s who have passed their Bikeability Level 2 tests! (Oct 2023)
Reverend Andrew and some of the children delivered some Harvest Festival food to the community! (Oct 2023)
Harvest Festival! (Oct 2023)
The children loved their visit to Gowbarrow Hall Farm, huge thanks Claire & Sam Beaumont! (Oct 2023)
Swimming lessons have officially begn!
A great way to go home at the end of the school day! (Oct 2023)
The children loved Reverend Andrew's church scavenger hunt!
The Year 6's helping the National Trust plant native daffodils at Aira Force! (Oct 2023)
Year 6 loved their city residential trip to Newcastle! (Nov 2023)
Well done to this term's Karate graduates, another belt earned! (Nov 2023)
It was great to welcome the Glendale Walkers in to school for lunch! (Oct 2023)
What a fab time we all had visiting Racy Ghyll Farm, thank you clan Rebanks! (July 2023)
The children loved today's golf taster session! (July 2023)
An unforgettable Year 6 city residential to Newcastle! (July 2023)
Mrs Steels and Josie helped launch the new Ullswater art trail, and Josie even cut the ceremonial cake!
Wind in the Willows at Appleby Castle (July 2023)
We're gonna miss our crazy, gorgeous, fab Year 6s! (July 2023)
Inter-School Cross Country Competition 2023! (July 2023)
Our Karate Clubbers have got their belt upgrades! (July 2023)
Prayer Day with Ruth Evans! (June 2023)
Junior residential at Hawse End, Portinscale (June 2023)
Year 4 & 5 Open Water Swimming at Fell Foot (June 2023)
The Year 5 & 6s had a splendid day out at the UCC Experience Day!
Our amazing junior rounders squad, t=runners up in the Penruddock inter-school rounders competition! (June 2023)
Our amazing mural! Huge thank yous to our favourite artist, Linda Mellin, and to Time & Anne Clarke for sponsoring the artwork! (June 2023)
Linda Mellin and the children creating our amazing mural... we LOVE it!
It's...... tennis time! Woop!
Artist Linda Mellin is here helping the children create a fantastic mural to celebrate the school's 150th birthday and the coronation, with lots of special touches representing life in the dale! (June 2023)
We’ve put up a mini version of our 150th birthday display in the church😀
What a great day out! The juniors really enjoyed their trip to Barrow Dock Museum! (May 2023)
Oh no! Bob's eaten the homework! (May 2023)
Making charcoal and toffee apples at Forest School! (May 2023)
Around 200,000 packets of wildflower seeds have been sent to primary schools to mark the coronation of King Charles III, and we've just planted ours!. The seeds are enough to plant 40 hectares of new wildflower areas around the UK and have been sent by the Eden Project with funding from the Department for Education. (May 2023)
Our Patterdale School Song performed by one of our youngest children, serenading her mum on the way to Penrith! (May 2023)
Year 5 Aira Force trip to help dig up non-native daffodils for replacement with a native variety! (May 2023)
Choosing our Value Words! (May 2023)
It's Library Van day!
Summer Term Forest School Shenanigans! (May 2023)
Celebrating the school's 150th anniversary and the Coronation of King Charles III! (May 2023)
Side Farm visit to see the lambs! (Apr 2023)
Happy Easter from all of us at Patterdale CofE School!
Thanks to Niall from Cumbria Police for the Cyber Safety talks! (Mar 2023)
Ruth & Fajita judged our Easter Egg competition, here are our lucky winners! (Mar 2023)
Ruth & Fajita led our Easter Service! (Mar 2023)
Bake off, Patterdale School style! (Mar 2023)
The littluns had a fab time at the Ullswater Nursery open afternoon! (Mar 2023)
Climbing Comp Conquerors! (Mar 2023)
Our Junior chess squad did amazingly well in the inter-school competition! (Mar 2023)
The juniors (and parents!) had a fantastic time at this year's Skelton Sevens! (Mar 2023)
Infant gymnastic joy! Third place at the Key Steps gym comp, woop! (Mar 2023)
What a snowtastic day we've had at Patterdale CofE School! (Mar 2023)
Our Juniors won a trophy for their Core Values in their First Lego League competition! (Mar 2023)
Our reception class had a lovely morning bus ride to the shops! (Feb 2023)
Our Spring Term Reading Comp winner!
Junior Lego Leaguers! (Feb 2023)
The infants have loved having some Bryn time! (Feb 2023)
Our juniors learned all about hearts this week! (Feb 2023)
Creating ceramic daffs for the 10,000 Daffodils Art Project (Feb 2022)
Our juniors went to Eden Rock to hone their climbing skills! (Feb 2023)
Infant Birdboxing! (Jan 2022)
Words fail us... (Jan 2022)
School trip to the Hartsop Hydro! (Jan 2022)
Christmas Party Time! (Dec 2022)
The Karate Kids! (Dec 2022)
Christingle 2022 at St Patrick's Church
Visiting Aira Force to put up their decs! (Dec 2022)
Making natural decorations to adorn real trees at Aira Force! (Dec 2022)
The children loved entertaining the over 60s with songs from the school play! (Dec 2022)
A day out at the Theatre & Brockhole! The whole school enjoyed watching The Borrowers at the Theatre by the Lake and then had a run around at Brockhole's adventure play area! (Dec 2022)
We came, we saw, we conkered! Our infants created this scene out of... well... conkers!(Nov 2022)
Forest School Fun! (Oct 2022)
Helvellyn Trailblazer! Our new Headteacher Mrs Steels completed the 15km Helvellyn Trail Run! (Oct 2022)
The juniors have become very bright LEGO Sparks! (Oct 2022)
The children earned some Cumbria in Bloom awards for their gardening skills! (Oct 2022)
The whole school enjoyed having a Boogie Bounce! (Oct 2022)
Harvest, as part of our Collective Worships in Church, on the theme of Generosity (Oct 2022)
Year 1 and 2 at Patterdale Hall taking part in outdoor adventurous activities (Oct 2022)
Year 6 have been getting Cyclewise! (Sept 22)
The school year has officially started, here are [most of] this year's fabtastic children!
Final day fun & games! (July 2022)
Sports Day! (July 2022)
Charity Cross Country Run for Children's Cancer North! (July 2022)
Our pupils tried their hearts out at the Inter-School Cross Country RACE (July 2022)
What did the children do during their day out at Safari Zoo Cumbria? Well, they fed carrots to the giraffes...
...fish to the penguins...
...apples to the ring-tailed lemurs...
... and saw lots of other animals too! (July 2022)
The Nursery open afternoon was a hoot! (July 2022)
The juniors LOVED the Hawse End Residential! (June 2022)
Whilst the juniors were away at Hawse End, the rest of the school had their own fun!
Tri-Day with the Tri-Kidz team! (June 2022)
Year 5 loved the Science Day at UCC! (June 2022)
Our Amazing School Cook, Lorraine, hard at work! (June 2022)
Making 140 scones for the afternoon tea! (May 2022)
Setting up for the Jubilee Tea! (May 2022)
It was great having the parents back in school for the Jubilee Afternoon Tea! (May 2022)
Lorraine got a surprise birthday present, it was very hard to wrap, baaaaaa! (May 2022)
Junior rounders tournament at Penruddock (May 2022)
Wheelchair Basketball was AWESOME! (May 2022)
All of the children went out for ice cream at Side Farm, lucky things!
...they had a lovely walk to the lake...
... played Pooh Sticks on the journey...
... and then enjoyed a fabtastic outside lunch! (May 2022)
Reception & Year 1 combined RE & DT to build a 'special place', their home! (May 2022)
Scooter School! (May 2022)
Our first session on the brand new tennis/basketball/netball courts at Patterdale! (April 2022)
The Year 1 & 3s loved their morning on the lake, canoeing with the fabtastic team at Patterdale Hall (April 2022)
As part of the QEGS Reading Project the Year 5's enjoyed a visit to the Grammar and met Alex Mullarky, author of The Sky Beneath the Stone! (April 2022)
...and whilst the Year 5's enjoyed their day out at QEGS, the rest of the school worked collaboratively to create a picture of the Earth from ... well... anything they could find! (Apr 2022)
Cricket class! (April 2022)
Miss Reay's class made their own Easter gardens from items in the classroom! (March 2022)
The winner of the Inn on the Lake's Easter Egg decoration competition!
Our Spring Term reading prize winner loved her day out with her family at Treetop Nets! (March 2022)
Our very own Easter chicks! (March 2022)
Easter Egg Hunt! (March 2022)
Our juniors had a great time at the Eden Rock bouldering competition! (March 2022)
What do you get if you cross World Book Day with Karate Club? Well.... this! (March 2022)
Skelton Sevens Netball & Football Competition! (March 2022)
Experimenting with light! (March 2022)
Junior class independent Collective Worship - our juniors performed five minute informative talks on topics such as 'Ramadan' and 'Justice' (March 2022)
World Book Day 2022 (March 2022)
Pancake Day in Miss Reay's Class! (March 2022)
Red Nose Day! (March 2022)
Ukraine Day blue and yellow fundraiser, we raised £220! (March 2022)
Science experiments with Miss Reay (March 2022)
Forest School Shenanigans! (March 2022)
Junior astronaut training!
The proud winner of our Reading Competition! Thank you Treetop Treks for the voucher! (Feb 2022)
Awesome Artwork! (Feb 2022)
Brilliant Biking! (Feb 2022)
Karate Kids! (Feb 2022)
Culinary Creativity! (Feb 2022)
Years 4 & 5 creative writing adventure at Long Meg & Little Meg stone circles! (Jan 2022)
Years 4 & 5 Cookery with Miss Kendall (Jan 2022)
The juniors get all dramatic! (Jan 2022)
There's no business like snow business! (Jan 2022)
Mrs Simpson's Class - WW2 Blitz pictures (Dec 2021)
Years 4 & 5 salute you! (Dec 2021)
Christmas party games! (Dec 2021)
Santa came to our Christmas party! (Dec 2021)
Our Christmas play 'Don't be Afraid' is done & dusted! (Dec 2021)
Bake off! The children's entries into QEGS' German Baking Comp were fabtastic! (Dec 2021)
Making bird feeders with Miss Reay! (Dec 2021)
Learning about the Posada celebration! (Dec 2021)
Queen's Platinum Jubilee Tree Planting (Dec 2021)
Aira Force Tree Decorating! (December 2021)
Teaching the Nativity to Years 1 & 3 at St Patricks Church (Nov 2021)
EYFS & KS1 Firefighting squad! (Nov 2021)
EYFS & KS1 visit to Patterdale Mountain Rescue Centre! (Nov 2021)
Our awesome juniors enjoyed WW2 activities whilst home learning! (Nov 21)
Miss Reay's dogs, Bryn & Isla, entertain the children! (Nov 2021)
