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• School receives prestigious Artsmark award

  Thu 22 Jun 2023

  Crosby Ravensworth CE Primary School receives prestigious Artsmark Award

  Pupils and staff at Crosby Ravensworth CE School are celebrating after receiving a prestigious Artsmark Award in a momentous year for the programme as it celebrates 20 years of arts, culture and creativity in schools.

   

  The Artsmark Award is the only creative quality standard for schools, accredited by Arts Council England. It supports schools to develop and celebrate arts and cultural education, putting creativity and wellbeing at the heart of the curriculum. Artsmark ensures every young person can be creative and access a diverse, high-quality cultural education.

   

  In order to achieve their Artsmark Award, Crosby Ravensworth had to develop their arts and culture provision to embed a broad and ambitious curriculum. This was achieved by creating an overall plan that was committed to and delivered across the whole school.

   

  The Artsmark assessor commended Crosby Ravensworth School on:

  • Working in ways that are genuinely collaborative
  • Having an approach to pupil voice that is much more collegiate and day-to-day than usual approaches
  • Genuinely building connections across the curriculum and laying strong foundations for further growth.
  • Ensuring more opportunities to increase children’s knowledge, skills and understanding for the Arts
  • Improving children's cultural capital by discussing famous works of art, encouraging them to consider how art makes them feel and why it might be important.
  • Allowing older children to evaluate their own pieces through video monologues which were made available at an exciting arts evening, where Artsmark inspired work was shared and showcased.
  • Engaging with local performances that are now schedules annually.
  • Increasing the type and range of arts activities on offer

   

  On receiving the award, Headteacher Duncan Priestley said: “We’re extremely proud of achieving our Artsmark Silver Award. We are committed to delivering a high-quality arts and cultural education and we look forward to continue to grow with Artsmark. We've been fortunate to have established some strong partnerships which have helped us reach this standard and I'd particularly like to thank Andi Taylor from Northern Inter-school Christian Union for her dedicated support for our 'Created to Create Arts Exhibition' at Crosby Ravensworth Village Hall last year.”

   

  Dr Darren Henley CBE, Chief Executive of the Arts Council, said:

  “I would like to congratulate Crosby Ravensworth School on their Artsmark Award. Becoming an Artsmark school demonstrates that through offering a broad, ambitious, and creative curriculum, every pupil can develop character and resilience, increasing their knowledge, curiosity and skills that will remain with them through to adult life.”

  

• Children set a new benchmark at Crosby Ravensworth

  Tue 16 May 2023

  Children in class 1 are pictured sitting on the new King Charles III Coronation Bench, which was kindly funded by the Crosby Ravensworth United Schools Foundation.

  

• Red, White and Blue for King Charles III

  Fri 05 May 2023

  Staff and children celebrate the coronation of King Charles III in the grounds of the school around the Union Flag.  A coronation bench has also been commissioned to commemorate the historic event, funded by the trustees of Crosby Ravensworth United Schools Foundation.

  

• Anglo Saxon Forest School Day

  Fri 17 Mar 2023
  

• World Book Day celebrated at Crosby Ravensworth School

  Thu 02 Mar 2023

  Every child throughout the school dressed as a book character to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March.  The children were joined by local author, Kay Lord, who read her book, 'Crumble the comfort cat' and gave out signed copies.  The book encourages youngsters to share their anxieties with others rather than letting them build up.

  On Friday all the children, including the pre-schoolers, visited Penrith Library for a series of workshops.  Those without library cards were able to sign-up and take out books to read at home.

   

  

• Children experience the first Christmas

  Tue 20 Dec 2022

  We're so grateful to Andi from NISCU who organised an incredible, memorable experience for the children in church.  She took us all back to the start of creation and told us how everything was made by God.  Unfortunately, Adam & Eve didn't follow God's rules and so we had to wait many years for his son, Jesus, to be sent to Earth from Heaven to be the light of the world.

  The boys and girls listened to what Mary, Joseph, a shepherd and a wise man had to say about the birth of a very special little boy...

   

  You can click here to watch Andi's summary of how creation links to the birth of Jesus.  There's also a recording of the children singing 'Away in a Manger' with Joseph to the baby Jesus.

  

• Christmas comes early at Crosby

  Tue 20 Dec 2022

  It's been a magical run-up to Christmas at Crosby.  We performed Babushka, our Christmas nativity play in the village hall to a rapturous reception last week.  Click here to listen to Marta beautifully singing one of our songs.  On Friday, Freda provided a wonderful Christmas Dinner for all our many guests who joined us from the community.  The children entertained us on their recorders then had a fabulous Christmas party with a surprise guest from Santa, who brought a sack full of amazing presents.

   

  Merry Christmas everyone!

  

• Christmas carol-singing at Tebay Services

  Tue 20 Dec 2022

  All the children sang joyfully at Tebay motorway services yesterday at our impromptu carol service.  In around 75 minutes, we raised £165.70 for the Friends of Crosby Ravensworth School.  Thanks to all who supported us.

  

• Bikeability - Class 2 learn cycle safety

  Tue 08 Nov 2022

  Children in Class 2 were very successful when it came to cycle safety last week.  All of year 5 and 6 achieved their level 2 certificates in 'bikeability' and year 4 achieved their level 1 certificates.  The school is grateful to Barbara, Neil and Vanessa for assisting the children. 

  

• Storytelling workshop - The Orton Dobby

  Tue 01 Nov 2022 Rebecca Willoughby

  This morning the children had a Westmorland Dales storytelling workshop with Asby Endowed school. First of all they heard two local stories including the Orton Dobby.

   

  Our children then had a workshop to tell the tale of the Orton Dobby by acting it out. They had to play the parts of people that had been in the story or as judges. Did they think it was a true ghost story or one that had been made up?

   

  At the end they told ghost stories of their own.