Year 5/6 Visit the National Coal Mining Museum
This week, Y5 and Y6 had a fantastic time visiting the National Coal Mining Museum linked to our history topic: The Miners’ Strike. We learnt so many interesting things about how mining changed over time and even got the opportunity to go underground and experience a real mine! All of Y5 and Y6 were brilliantly […]
Dough Disco After School Club
Week 1 of Mrs Lindley’s dough disco after school club was a great success. Dough disco involves moulding play dough in time to music and performing different actions such as rolling it into a ball, flattening it, putting each individual finger into the dough, rolling it into a sausage and squeezing it. This really improves […]
FS2 Weave a Masterpiece!
We are incredibly proud of the children in FS2. They have crafted a beautiful wall hanging inspired by the talented artist, Anna Ray. Each child carefully chose a ribbon or material of their liking and skillfully weaved it in and out of the wool. It’s amazing to see such young artists, aged just four and […]
Outdoor Maths Learning
It’s been a busy week in FS2 with lots of outdoor Maths learning and we have enjoyed reading our book of the week, Superworm!
Final Art Topic Pieces
We had a great afternoon making our final piece for our Art topic. 🎨🧵 We have been looking at the artist Lizette Chirrime and how she creates her work. We have used a range of materials to create our final piece. The kids loved it!
Money Matters Learning
Y1/2MH have been learning lots about money this week. We have been looking at the value of each coin, adding coins together and learning how to make the same amount with different coins. For homework, we have also been paying for items in the shop using cash! 💷
Exploring the History of Toys 🪀🧸
Year 2 are having a great time learning about toys past and present in our History theme! We have explored our own toys and categorised them, looked at the toys our parents and grandparents played with and even looked at toys in Victorian times! We looked at the similarities and differences between all of the toys […]
Maths Division Practice
Y3/4 have been mastering Division this week using the ‘bus stop method’. They were focusing on the correct vocabulary and asking themselves key questions. How many groups of hundreds can I make? How many groups of tens can I make? How many groups of ones can I make?
KS2 Participate in Young Voices 2024 🎶
Last week, our Young Voices choir of KS2 children took part in the concert at the Utilita Arena, Sheffield! It was such an amazing experience, singing with nearly 5000 other children from schools all across Yorkshire. It featured guest stars such as Natalie Williams, MC Grammar, Nandi Bushell and Urban Strides and also included an […]
LKS2 Art Workshop
LKS2 classes all had an Art workshop last week which was linked to our previous music workshop about local landmarks. 🎨🏙 Y3PB created a 3D version of the pirate ship at Gulliver’s Valley, Y3/4KW made moving animal puppets based around Aston Springs Farm and Y4HS made sculptures using paper, sticks and stencils of fish and […]
