News from the School - August 2007 | Threlkeld village website

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Local Weather

Scattered clouds
Temperature: 6 °C
Wind: Variable from Southwest to West-Northwest, 12.7 mph
Rel. Humidity: 81%
Visibility: 6.2 miles
Sunrise: 7:58 +0000
Sunset: 15:58 +0000

Reported on:
23 November, 2008 - 15:50

Threlkeld rainfall

In October there was 278mm of rain. (NB Last October there was only 67mm).
There were 9 days without rain.
The wettest day was Saturday 25 October with 43mm.

Upcoming events

Parish Council meeting, Village Hall(Event)(2 days)
Trip to Glasgow, leave Village Hall at 8am(Event)(6 days)
Tom McConville – Public Rooms(Event)(6 days)

Threlkeld School

Visit to the Pencil Museum

Threlkeld Primary School enjoyed a visit early in the term to Keswick Pencil Museum. Helen Strachan, the school’s Dining Room Assistant, is holding an exhibition of her pencil/charcoal pictures and the children wanted to see her work, and will follow up the visit in school by showing the children some of her techniques for them to try out.

The school also enjoyed looking round the museum (the world’s largest pencil is always popular). The older children were interested to find out about the War Drawing Pencils, which hid secret escape maps, as they have begun a history topic on World War 2.

As an added bonus, the children also had a session with a professional cartoonist, who gave them hints on drawing cartoon characters.

Improvement work to frontage of school

We apologise for the length of time there has been disruption outside the school due to the rebuilding of the school wall and replacement of the railings. As is often the case, the work was not completed for the beginning of term as expected. There was a delay in the delivery of the railings and there were problems with parts of the stonework. We are still waiting for some parts to be rebuilt, to the architect’s satisfaction.