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School trip to Old Moor
The children thoroughly enjoyed their trip to RSPB Old Moor, Dearne Valley. This half-term's topic is 'why do spiders eat flies?' where the children have been learning all about minibeasts! During their trip, the children had a brilliant time pond-dipping where they...
Forest schools
The children thoroughly enjoyed their forest school sessions. They took part in lots of different activities including: making magic potions using water from the stream and items found in the woodland, developing physical skills through climbing and manoeuvring...
Science Day May 2024
On Friday 17th May, parents/carers of children in Year 1 and Year 2 were invited into school for a fun-filled Science afternoon! The children completed a range of activities such as building towers using spaghetti and marshmallows, making lava lamps and creating rain...
Stocksbridge Library
We really enjoyed a trip to Stocksbridge Library. During our visit, we listened to the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' for our 'why do spiders eat flies?' topic. After the story, we thoroughly enjoyed looking around the library and we used our library cards to...
Story teller
The children in Reception enjoyed a visit from a storyteller. The children really enjoyed the session where stories were told through music, actions and singing. We took part in various stories but our favourite was 'The Enormous Turnip'! We invited our grown-ups into...
Science Workshop May 2024
On Friday 17th May, parents/carers of children in Year 1 and Year 2 were invited into school for a fun-filled Science afternoon! The children completed a range of activities such as building towers using spaghetti and marshmallows, making lava lamps and creating rain...
“Save or Spend” May 2024
Last half-term, children in Key Stage 1 took part in 'Save or Spend' whereby classes earnt money by working towards their targets. Year 1's target was to do good sitting and good listening. The children got a lot better at their targets throughout the course of the...
“Save or Spend” May 2024
The children in Year 2 have worked really hard so far this year and staff thought the children deserved a treat. As part of save or spend, the children focused on doing good listening, lining up and demonstrating good learning behaviours throughout school. The...
Waste Week Campaign March 2024
Our Eco monitors were very busy checking waste and recycling bins in school during the annual 'Waste Week' campaign 18th - 24th March. As part of this campaign, children were challenged to use recycled materials at home to create a new Eco mascot. We loved seeing...
Practical Homework Y1 & Y2 May 2024
As part of Year 1 and Year 2's homework, children can choose whether they want to complete the formal (written) task or the practical task within their homework pack each week. This is a perfect way to support individual children's learning needs. There are many...
Engineer competition May 2024
If you were an engineer what would you do? KS1 children have taken part in an inspiring competition developed by a Primary Engineer STEM programme. Children were encouraged to imagine if they were an engineer, what problem would they most like to solve? Before this,...
“Why do spiders eat flies?”
This half term in the 2-year provision our topic has been ‘Why do spiders eat flies?' The children have enjoyed accessing various activities around our provision such as, using tweezers to catch the spiders in the web, and then counting them. Then matching the...
“Why do spiders eat flies?”
This half term Nursery has been focusing on the topic 'Why do spiders eat flies?'. We have learnt all about minibeasts and their habitats and plants. We have all really enjoyed planting our own sunflowers, making sure we gave them enough water and putting them...
“Why do spiders eat flies?”
Well, what a busy start to our term! Our topic is called 'Why do spiders eat flies?' . So far in our topic we have spoken about all the different minibeasts we might find in our gardens, we then enjoyed going outdoors and exploring the Foundation Stage yard to see...
“Why do spiders eat flies?”
The children in class 2 have had a busy start to this half-term! Our topic is 'why do spiders eat flies?' and we have been learning all about different minibeasts. We have painted repeating pattern caterpillars, made symmetrical patterns on butterfly wings and...
Ladybirds – Class 8 May 2024
This half term, class 8 children have been learning about mono printing and using clay in Art. Year 1 children have created ladybirds. They had to think carefully about how they rolled out the legs and attached them to the body using water. The Year 2 children created...
“Enchanted Woodland”
This half term, children in Class 9 have been learning about plants in Science. The children know that in order to survive, plants need light, water and heat. For one of our lessons, we used magnifying glasses to identify the different parts of a dandelion plant such...
Easter April 2024
The children had an “eggciting” day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and ‘Easter Bonnet/Hat parade’. It was “eggcellent” seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...
Easter 2024
The children had an “eggciting” day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and ‘Easter Bonnet/Hat parade’. It was “eggcellent” seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...
Easter March 2024
Nursery children had an "eggcellent" time on Wednesday 27th March completing the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. In addition to this the Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children also took part in an ‘Egg Rolling’ activity. It was fantastic to see...
Rock Steady Concert March 2024
On Thursday 28th March, some children participated in a 'Rock Steady' concert. The children have been rehearsing weekly and performing as part of a band. Within the band the children had the opportunity to either play the drums, guitar, keyboard or they took on the...
World Book Day
During World book week the children had a fun week in the 2-year provision. The children loved to come to school dressed up in their favourite costumes. The book we had chosen was 'The three little pigs'. they loved this story, especially the part when the...
World Book Day March 2024
Nursery celebrated world book day by focusing on the book 'The Great Goat Chase' the children enjoyed creating different animals linked to the story through a variety of crafts. Such as clay models, using paper plates to create goats and using a wide variety of...
Reception World Book Day
The children in Reception had a fantastic day for World Book Day. We had lots of great costumes for our favourite book characters! Our focus story for the day was 'The Little Red Hen' and lots of children brought in some fantastic homework crafts based on the...
Easter 2024
The children had an "eggciting" day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. It was "eggcellent" seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...
Are eggs alive?
In Nursery this half term we have been focusing on the topic 'Are Eggs Alive'. The children were fascinated from the moment the eggs arrived in Nursery to them hatching and handling their chicks. We have also learnt about the signs of Spring and animals on the farm....
Are eggs alive?
This term in the 2 year provision our topic has been 'Are eggs alive?' The children watched our eggs in the incubator keeping warm until they hatched and were very excited to see the little chicks inside. We talked about the chicks and using our kind fingers the...
Are eggs alive?
During Spring 2 our topic has been 'Are eggs alive?' where we have learnt all about spring, animals that hatch from eggs and the life-cycle of a hen. The children in class 2 were very excited when we had a delivery of some eggs! We learnt that the eggs were kept in...
Are eggs alive?
Well what an 'eggciting' start to our half term... Our topic is called 'Are Eggs Alive?' and the eggs arriving at school were a great stimulus to fully immerse our children into their learning. The children have found out lots about chickens including their lifecycle,...
Storyteller
Nursery enjoyed having the story teller come and visit us. She acted out lots of different stories with us. She used musical instruments and props to tell her tales. She even let us join in with acting out the story of 'The Enormous Turnip', which was very fun indeed!