This week we have been finishing off some of our Christmas themed activities. We started off by going back over our work and looking at some of the wonderful ideas we had thought of for our Christmas writing earlier in the term. Then we started to put these together to make some poems about Christmas sights and sounds. Later in the week we made some Christmas cards to take home too. There were some amazing designs, and making these made us all feel very Christmassy. I hope yo

This week class 1 have continued to learn about shapes . The KS1 children have explored shapes with lines of symetry and the face shapes of 3D shapes . EYFS have been searching for shapes in the environment and finding items to press into dough to create shape imprints. All children have made some fantastic bags filled with decoration goodies for the Christmas fair . Today the whole school enjoyed a wonderful Christmas lunch whilst wearing their Christmas jumpers ! Have a gre

After a long wait over the weekend for the paint to dry, the pictures were finally ready to be mounted on pieces of card and finished off to go home. The children created some wonderful designs and loved their art project. They amazed us with their creativity and there were lots of fantastic ideas. They are all really proud of their work, and rightly so.

This week class 1 have been making shapes with straws and playdough. They had to think carefully about the number of sides and properties of a square and triangle. We had fun playing parachute games in the hall during a rainy playtime and also celebrated Letties' birthday . We have been practising our Nativity songs ready for Tuesday and look forward to sharing them with you then ! We have also had a wonderful time at Harrogate Theatre as part of our whole school Pantomime tr

This week it's all becoming to feel a bit like Christmas around Grewelthorpe School. First the school council put up the Christmas tree and made our hall look more festive. Then on Friday, we got to visit the Pantomime; it's been quite a while since we've had a whole school outing to the pantomime. Here we are getting into the spirit of things before our trip. Needless to say, they didn't need to say "I can't hear you" to this lively bunch - everybody definitely picked up tha

The children experimented witrh different types of printing as part of our art week. They printed with leaves , items from the classroom and stamps . They designed and created their own printing tiles using playdough and polysterene. In maths we have started looking at shape. We are using mathematical vocabulary to describe the properties of different shapes. We have started learning the songs from our Nativity and are busy sorting out costumes ...Very exciting ! I hope you a

This week it's been art week - we always look forward to our art-focused weeks and the medium was through printing. The children experimented with different techniques to print; we soon discovered that printing is very difficult and isn't going to produce the crisp and polished outcomes. With that in mind, we aimed to create Christmas-card designs, using simple shapes and backgrounds but through a layered build up approach. After trying out printing styles and weighing up the

This week has seen the return of one of our favourite times of the term - Art Week! We have been designing and creating some Christmas themed prints that we are going to use to make some beautiful Christmas cards. The children have loved experimenting with different printing techniques and styles and they have come up with some wonderful ideas. I won't show the final designs yet though at the children want them to be a surprise!

This week the EYFS children enjoyed a snowy forest school session with Mrs Longstaff. In RE we have started learning about why Christians celebrate Christmas and about why we perform Nativity plays. In maths EYFS have learnt about numbers to10 and KS1 children have been comparing 2 digit numbers . Years 1 and 2 have been creating fact sheets all about pirahahs. Well done for a great week class 1.

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This week the children took part in a national times tables competition using the Rockstar Maths website. It was a very close event and we are all really proud of how well the children did and how hard they worked to get points to move us up the leaderboards. Unfortunately when we first logged on we couldn't get on the site as their servers were down as so many children across the country were playing at the same time. We soon came back though and on day two moved up 4000 pla

Over the past few weeks, we've been studying the book 'Malamander' which is a legendary creature who lurks within the sea mist in the town of Eerie-On-Sea. We've been working towards writing our own legends and for this we have been writing some poems which sound like folk law, with mysterious hearsays and tales of sightings. We also created some Malamander eyes to accompany them. Here we are having great fun using clay to create an eye shape with stand-out features Our fini

This week we had some exciting news - Sara Cox was going to be running through our village as part of her Northern Challenge, where she was aiming to run 135 miles for Children in Need. With that in mind, we wanted to make her feel are inspired as possible, give her that extra life she no doubt needed to carry on. We began by designing posters with motivational slogans on and theming them around Children In Need Then came the moment we'd all been waiting for, first the drones

This week has been very exciting . The children made fantastic banners to encourage Sara Cox on her fundraising marathon run . They loved buying ice cream from the ice cream van and raising money through non uniform day and playing games run by class 3. We also learned about Remembrance day and the children made poppies which they shared in collective worship. In maths ,EYFS have been learning about all the ways to make numbers to 5 and ordering number cards. KS1 have been wo

Yesterday we held our Children in Need day in school to help raise money for a great charity. We moved the event a day forward so that we could celebrate Sara Cox running through the village and so that we could give her lots of encouragement as she went past our school. The children loved making some posters to wave and they were brilliant at cheering her on, and lots even got high-fives from her too! As if that wasn't exciting enough, FROGS even organised for an ice-cream v

We're now back up and running with our new website so it's great to be able to share with you all some of the exciting things we have been learning about over the last half term. The new class 3 are lots of fun and as always, full of energy and enthusiam for our topics. We've already been to several sporting fixtures: netball and football tournaments. We demonstrated some fine sportsmanship, sporting one another and lots of praise. We've had so much fun learning all about th

Welcome to our new class page ! This week the children have been learning about why we celebrate Bonfire night , talking about keeping safe and exploring techniques to make firework pictures. In maths the KS1 children have been counting in tens to make 2 digit numbers and EYFS have started to look at the different ways to make and represent numbers to 5. In science we have started looking at how animals can be sorted by their classification and by what they eat. Well done cla

This week we have been looking at maps and how to use them to find our way around. We started out by looking at some maps of our local area and seeing if we could use these to find some of the villages and landmarks near us. We also looked at the different symbols on the maps and thought about what these might stand for. The children then had a great time outside creating their own maps of the school and using the points of the compass to work out where things are in relatio

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