Patterdale C of E Primary School
A loving family in a unique environment
Gallery
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!
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)
Our Year 1,2 & 3 children enjoyed archery and the ropes course at Patterdale Hall (Nov 2021)
The new library van got the thumbs up from our lot! (Nov 21)
As part of their studies into life during the Second World War, our juniors learned to 'make do and mend'! (Oct 2021)
Cross Country Charity Run! (July 2021)
Here's some more images of our school and it's beautiful surroundings!
