Y2 Go Outdoors with POP’s
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Y2 have enjoyed their first outdoor learning session with Pop’s this week. They created sculptures based on Antony Gormley’s ‘Field for the British Isles’ which we have been learning about in class. The children did a fantastic job replicating Antony Gormley’s work!
Y5 Learn About Inherited Characteristics
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Y5’s have been teaming up in science to learn all about inheritance. As you can see we created new Mr Men characters to show our understanding of characteristics we inherit from our parents or even grandparents.
WPT and Dragons Teaching Join Forces to Deliver Primary MFL Curriculum
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From this week, WPT has teamed up with Dragons Teaching – an e-learning platform that combines real-time online teaching with fun and interactive games – to deliver the MFL curriculum to KS2 students at all eight Wickersley Partnership Trust primary schools. With all of our primary schools on board to get stuck into learning French, […]
Acts of Kindness
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The children in Foundation Stage made some lovely Christmas cards for the charity Age UK Rotherham before Christmas. We have recently received some lovely replies, which shows just how much the gesture meant to some of the people who received the cards. The children understood who they were making the cards for and we had […]
Foundation Stage get Christmassy! 🎄
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in our Foundation Unit. The children have been extremely busy! We have been helping Santa in his workshop designing and making toys, wrapping presents and delivering to their friends. Our writing area has become Santa’s Post Office and we have written letters to Santa, made cards for […]
Y3/4RB DT Project
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As part of the Trust-wide DT project, we have learned about the vacuum forming process, designed our own chocolate bars and wrappers, then used molds made by Wickersley School to create our own chocolate treats!
FS2 The Polar Express Experience
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FS2 had a brilliant experience yesterday boarding The Polar Express to the North Pole. The children received a ticket under their pillow in the morning with a letter explaining they could wear their pyjamas to school, and were going to board the train at School and watch the film. Once at school with their ticket, they were met […]
Y6 Go Exploring
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“Y6 have had some fantastic experiences up in our Wild Area over the Autumn 2 term. We have been working with the POPS outdoor adventure/learning team! As part of this, the children have been able to explore our History, Science, and Geography topics in a new way with interactive sessions encouraging them to hunt and […]
Y5 Watch The Gainsborough Academy’s Panto ‘Cinderella’
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Y5s visited The Gainsborough Academy to watch the panto ‘Cinderella’. They had an amazing time! Oh yes they did…
Y3MH Term Update!
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In Y3MH, the children have had a great half term reading the book Stig of the Dump and writing their own story about it. They have worked really hard to plan the story, make their own characters, and describe the setting using expanded noun phrases. The stories are very well written and have some wonderful […]