Category archives: Home life

Today we spent a couple of hours in the Coronation Hall at a science event for young people. It was the second year that the event has been run and the hall was packed with youngsters trying their hands at various experiments and activities with a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics theme. Megan and William […]

Today I was lucky enough to accompany Year 6 and Year R pupils on one of their regular Forest school days. A great initiative of outdoor nature-based learning with a focus on observation of, and caring for, the environment.

It has been a week of sporting success for us. On Wednesday William was selected to represent the school at an indoor athletics meet at Furness Academy in Barrow. His team came third in the relay. On Thursday Megan represented the school at a Cross Country event at UVHS. (Alas no photos allowed). Megan started […]

Well… it would be rude NOT to use the campervan at least once during our half term holiday…. so we did!! On this occasion we decided to take Megan and William to the little wild camp spot Lay and I had discovered earlier in the year and do an overnight stopover in advance of a […]

What I really enjoy about living in the Lakes is sharing a dog walk with my Sister. Little and often seems to suit us both and we have swapped the weekly telephone catch up to a weekly walk (sometimes two). On this occasion, our walk took us around the familiar Sunny Bank circuit, taking in […]

Whilst William and Lay were occupied playing football at the Ulverston Rangers GSK ground at Canal Foot, Megan and I decided to take Togo for a walk. As Clare has daughter-in-law duties in Ulverston on Saturdays she planned to join us for a stomp up Hoad Hill as soon as she was free. Megan and […]

Today was a show and tell afternoon at school so parents could admire all the topic work each year group had produced over the half term. William’s year were proudly displaying their light projects. It was clear William’s efforts to make had not gone unnoticed as he got a second special mention. The year 6 […]

It must have felt a bit like Butlins when a coach load of Pennington pupils descended (or should that be ascended) onto Hoad Hill for the morning. William and his fellow yr3 and yr4 classmates were luck enough to have a school trip to the iconic Sir John Barrow Monument and even got a tour […]

Keen to share the beautiful beaches with Grannie Annie and Grandad (who we know would appreciate the vast sandy beaches given their love of Rhossilli Bay) we headed down in the van for a blow of sea air. The tide was abit further out on this visit revealing some really interesting wave patterns on the […]

Today is the first Pennington Families day since Megan and William started. The school has families instead of the usual houses where children across all year groups work together on school value projects. Today the theme of the day is ‘Hello Yellow’ in recognition of World Mental Health Day and to raise money for the […]