We've started looking at balanced arguments in English and weighing up where we stand on a range of subjects. Should children get homework? Should children own mobile phones? We quickly realised we needed to go over what being unbiased meant and had to consider both sides of the debate... Needless to say, their minds were made up but here we are deciding where we stand on the use of mobile phones We also highligted the features of a balanced argument And then held a full deba

We've finished our newspapers and what an excellent job they've done with them. They've worked extremely hard to communicate the news story in a formal manner, with fact but interest as a focus. We're very proud of their work and presentation. We've also been continuing our investigation as to whether Ripon ought to reconsider its closure of the railway station, back in 1969. First, we invited a man from the Civic Society to explain some of the transport history of Ripon, inc

We've continued with our newspaper reports, and have been busy collecting research and quotes to ensure we've got all the facts and are accurate with our information. Here's a behind-the-scenes shot of our reporters at the press office. We've also been developing our understanding of our local area and have been studying Ripon and older maps of the area to locate where the former rail station stood and the where the line went. Here we are adding the former railline to a moder

Happy new year to you all - we had a traditional start back and made our first song in assembly Auld Land Syne, and joined hands; it was lots of fun. We also shared our hopes and aspirations for the year ahead. We've started our new class book, Holes, which we're using as an inspiration for our writing. We've been looking at the features of newspaper reports, and imagining the situation of the lead character in the story, Stanley, and have been collecting evidence from the tr

We've celebrated the Christmas season with lots of fun activities; we had our Christmas lunch which was really yummy while enjoying Christmas songs We then ran our Christmas-fayre stalls which the children were extremely excited about. They designed their own games with profit in mind. They had to think of the accessibility of the game, it's appeal and the prizes on offer. Once they planned this, they tested it out and costed the game buying prizes as well as decorating their

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

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

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

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

Now the summer holidays don't start for us teachers until Tuesday so I thought I'd load some of those infant photos you'd hoped would never see the light of day again for all to see  Here you all are back in your reception class.  And of course your individual shots  We're all very proud of you, year six, and the wonderful people you've become, each with so much potential. You'll all be amazing at secondary school , work hard and enjoy the summer holidays.  Mr Breckon

This week Class 3 had a special treat where they got to have a go at running a French cafe for the afternoon. As part of their French work the children have been learning about food with Mr Breckon and so they got to try some of the tasty treats they's been looking at. They had to takes turns ordering and serving the food using their language skills. It all looked lots of fun and the children really enjoyed it - shame there was nothing left for me though!