This term sees the return of one of our favourite activities - Forest Schools! Every Monday afternoon Mrs L takes the children down to a nearby field where the children get to practice all sorts of bushcraft skills from den making to outdoor cooking. It really helps the class to bond too as they also work on their team skills. This has to be one of our favourite lessons and the children can't wait to go again next Monday.

It has been a busy first week back in Class 1, with lots of new units of learning for the new half term. Year 2 have enjoyed their Guided Reading text for this week, about the Gunpowder Plot, and learnt new vocabulary 'treason', 'plotted' and 'parliament'...ask us what our new words mean! In English we have been looking at instructions - sorting texts into those that are and are not instructions and then practising using instruction language to help a partner copy a model th

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What a busy week it's been despite only being 4 days. First six of the girls went to a netball tournament and took part in several matches where they tried hard to play together as a team. Our team came 2nd so that's a huge achivement - well done to you. We have started to learn lots of new mathematical vocabularly including: squared numbers, multiples, factors, triangular numbers and more. Some children were tasked with using these number properties to try and solve a positi

This week the children have had Art Week. We have looked at Sir Frank Bowling , talked about his paintings and experimented with some of the techniques he used. We also talked about The Windrush generation , read the book Coming To England and compared the colours, foods and buildings of the Caribbean with England. Have a super weekend everyone .

This week has been art week and we have had a great time learning all about Dezil Forrester and creating some art work inspired by him. We started off by looking at some of his pictures and talking about how he in turn was inspired by Caribbean music. We then listened to some dub and reggae and drew our own pieces. The children especially loved a bit of Bob Marley and some of the children were singing along to every word of the songs! We looked at how Denzil used bright block

It's been art week 🎨 and for it, we've been studying the works of Hurvin Anderson. He's an artist who uses his parents' experiences of the Caribbean to paint images of somewhere he only knows through imagination. As a result, his paintings are not based on reality but his blurred interpretationss. Below is an example of his style We found out about his style, experimented with colour making and researched images of places special to us. We wanted to keep the image identifiab

On Tuesday Class 2 took part in a very exciting dodgeball tournament at Outwood school in Ripon. The children had been really looking forward to it and couldn't wait to get there. Overall we played five games and at times the scores were extremely close with only a few points in it. With some excellent dodging and throwing skills on show, the children did very well and came in the top halves of their groups, which meant that they went forward to the playoffs. After an amazing

It has been another busy week in Class 1, with lots of wonderful learning taking place. On Thursday we held our first ever Be Safe day at school, where we were joined by our friends from North Stainley to learn about all sorts of different ways to keep ourselves safe. In the afternoon we especially enjoyed having a visit from Mr Exelby to talk about farm safety and a PCSO who answered lots of our questions, helped us to understand how to stay safe on the roads and then, the

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/articles/z9j4kqt#z9q6dnb We've been discovering about the Roman Empire in our history studies, focusing on the reasons behind the Roman's attempts to invade Britain. We looked at the ways in which the Celts lived during the years before the invasion and on Wednesday, we visited Murton Park to experience the ways in which the Romans lived. We were met by a Roman citizen called Flava who gave us some basic training before being perm

Every Tuesday we have PE with Mr Whitford who is our expert sports coach. He works with the children on everything from football to dance and also runs our after school sports clubs too. This week the children have been working on their moving and dodging skills, as well as catching and throwing. Mr W is really good at making the sessions fun and engaging and the children have a great time. I just hope he doesn't teach them how to dodge the maths test too!

This week we have been really busy in Maths finding 1 more and 1 less than different numbers and making 2 digit numbers using base ten apparatus. We have also been thinking about Harvest and have written some Harvest themed list poems as well as using observational skills to paint watercolour pictures of fruits in Years 1 and 2, and printing with fruits in Early Years. What a busy week!

This week we were so lucky, especially with the weather which turned gloriously sunny as soon as we arrived, to explore Roseberry Topping. We've been studying mountainous areas and looking at the impact they have as well as the features around them, both human and physical. We noticed that at a certain point on the hill, there appeared to be no trees and just moorland whereas below it was mostly farmland. We could also see Middlesbrough very clearly (thankfully not the footb

This week we worked scientifically to test materials to see if they were waterproof . In english we continued with our topic of traditional tales and used conjuntions in sentences about Goldilocks. In geography we named the 5 oceans of the world . The EYFS children have been busy looking at numbers within numbers , working hard with their phonics and making playdough ! Have a great weekend .

Reading is one of the most important things we do in school, and we are really lucky to have such an amazing library to use. We make sure we find time to read individually every day, as well as reading a class book out loud too. The children love using the books to discover new things and help us with our topic work (and some people have worked out that at book can be handy for hiding behind when the teacher is taking pictures for the website too! ).

We've been having fun in science testing the strength of different light sources and observing the darkness of the shadows created. We've started looking at our history topic, The impact on Britain after the Roman invasion, and as always, we began looking at where this topic slotted in with all our other studied history topics. We lined them up on a timeline and made sure to take spacing between the events to show the passage of time. We've now started to look at Celtic Brita

This week the KS1 children have continued to learn about everyday materials . We have looked at the properties of different materials and used scientific language to describe them. We started our geography topic by looking at the 7 continents on the world map and naming them. The reception children have started their phonics lessons and have worked really hard! Our new nursery children have settled really well this week . Very well done Ellie, Billy and Willow ! Have a super

This week we have been carrying out some experiments in science to see what happens when we heat and cool solids, and how we can change the state a material is in. We timed how long it would take for jelly cubes to melt in some beakers, which all had different temperatures of water in. Afterwards, we looked at what would happen if we then cooled a liquid down at different temperatures too, and how long they would take to solidify. We all had lots of fun measuring temperatures

We've had a really busy two weeks, and now my ipad is working, I can load pictures on again of all the things we've been up to. Firstly, we celebrated our first day back by hearing about one another's summer and I shared some American sweets from my travels, with of course was much appreciated. We've been securing our understanding of place value by reaching the dizzying numbers of up to 10,000,000. The children have worked out to break numbers down (partition) to much more

We have a busy time in Class 1 - here is our timetable and the current overviews of our learning.

Welcome back everyone ! It was lovely to see all the children and meet the new starters across school . We will start reading ,spelling and homework very soon. In science,our topic is Everyday materials and in English we are looking at Traditional Tales. Our EYFS children have started their topic All About Me . Have a super weekend .

It has been lovely to be able to welcome all of the children back after the summer holidays, and also to be able to say hello to lots of new starters in our class this week too. Everyone has really enjoyed getting back together again and playing and chatting with their friends. This week we have started to look at our new topic which is "Rivers", and we have used our map skills to be able to locate some of the main rivers in the UK. We also followed the course of some of the