Tree Planting
Year 5/6 had the opportunity to plant some trees in our local area this week. This was part of our Where In The World Am I topic in which we looked at carbon stores.
Help at home: Look at the Woodland Trust website for more ideas for how to help biodiversity in your area.
Testing our memories!
Each week in class, the children complete recaps as part of their learning in topic and science. These are great at getting the children to recall the learning they’ve done recently but also remembering the learning they’ve done in previous years. Today, they completed a topic recap as their morning task. It tested their knowledge on geography – the children had to remember the vocabulary linked to fieldwork from last half term. It also made them recall their learning on computing and climates from a previous geography topic.
Skipping School
Last week, Years 3 and 4, had a fantastic afternoon with Skipping School leader – Chris. Chris took the children through each step, such as how to hold your skipping rope in a smile shape and when to jump after the rope clicks the floor. They then worked up to doing complicated straddle jumps and crossing the skipping ropes! The children were great and were really resilient (as it can be quite tricky!) while working together and encouraging one another.
Some of Year 4 will be participating in the Skipping School Competition after Easter which is all about getting moving and having fun while doing so! We will be practicing the skipping skills we learnt today, up until that point.
Help at home by getting the children skipping.
Mad about Maths
For the past few weeks, Year 1 have been learning how to compose numbers. Last week, we focussed on making 6 and 7. This week we are focussing on 8 and 9. We have been using Numicon, our fingers and rek n reks to compose our numbers.
Help at home by composing numbers using household objects. Oranges and apples work well!
Christmas Craft Club
We’ve had a wonderful time this evening for our final Craft Club of 2025. The children enjoyed making candy canes and Christmas trees using finger painting.
They also drew their very own Elf on the Shelf.
See you in 2026 Craft Clubbers!
Whatever Next!
This week, we listened to another of Jill Murphy’s stories titled ‘Whatever Next!’. It’s about a little bear who went on an adventure to the moon. This story led to lots of conversations about space and rockets. We watched a rocket blast off into space and joining in with the countdown from 10. We created our own space station in our small world area and blasted our own rockets in to space ….. blast off!
In the story baby bear makes his own space rocket from a cardboard box. We decided to make our own rockets in the creative area using different shaped boxes and bottles. It was quite tricky working out how to attach the different parts together.
We enjoyed singing the number rhyme “5 Little men in a flying saucer” this week. Showing the amounts on our fingers as we sang the song. The children are getting really good at this important mathematical skill.
Help at home: Can you sing a number song at home and use you fingers to show the amount?
Here are some number songs to try.
1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive.
Next week’s learning:
We are looking forward to reading ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson in our story times next week. If you don’t have a copy of the book at home, you might enjoy watching the BBC animation together.
In maths, we’re learning about length so will be using the words long, short, longer and shorter to compare different objects.
Sound of the week
i for iguana
Pull your lips back and make the i sound at the back of your mouth.
Nursery rhyme of the week –
Twinkle, twinkle little star
Reminders
Please return the Christmas slip to let us know if you can attend one of our ‘Stay and Decorate’ sessions in December. Please see the letter for more details of dates and times.
We hope that you have a happy and healthy weekend.
2C at The Hepworth
What an incredible day! 2C were excellent ambassadors for our school. We had members of the public commenting on how superb their behaviour was. There were so many highlights, as already posted by KS1 classes, but we enjoyed the coach saying our school name as a start!
Learning about Barbara Hepworth and being surrounded by her mesmerising sculptures really did inspire us to be creative. We were sad to learn that Barbara actually died in her art studio owing to a fire. It felt like a privilege to stand next to the tools she used to create her sculptures.
Our sketches from the gallery walk were transferred into our print making workshop.
We have brought our prints home so we will explore turning them into our 2026 calendars-watch this space!
Of course, a trip wouldn’t be a trip without a lovingly thought through packed lunch. We were more than ready to eat!
We arrived under bright blue skies but sadly the rain poured in the afternoon so we didn’t get the chance to explore outside. Instead, we had some time in the gallery before returning to school for a run around our playground. 2C had the most enjoyable day.
A HUGE THANKYOU to our wonderful adult volunteers-you were A*
1,2B trip to the Hepworth Art Gallery
We had great school trip to the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield.
We took part in a print-making workshop which included looking at some Barbara Hepworth sculptures and finding inspiration from their shapes. There were some great outcomes and the children enjoyed seeing all their masterpieces.
We also spent time looking around the garden, the different galleries and sketching some of the sculptures. There were a variety of pieces of art and sculptures to see with different textures, shapes and colours. We even got to see the brand new exhibition that opened last week.
Our trip to the Hepwortth, Wakefield
What a fantastic day we had yesterday on our school trip to the Hepworth Art Gallery in Wakefield. This was the first trip of the year for our Year One children. They behaved brilliantly and represented the school very well.
We had so much fun on the bus! We then took part in a workshop where we looked at lots of sculptures made by Barbara Hepworth.
We then had a go at making our own art and did some fantastic printmaking.
After that, we had lunch before looking around the art galleries and spotting lots of primary and secondary colours.
Thank you so much to our adult volunteers for coming on the trip yesterday. We had so much fun!
Design technology – food
This week we’ve been putting out culinary skills to the test. Each child has had the opportunity to make tomato and lentil soup – perfect for the cold days we’ve had this week. They used knives to safely chop and dice the vegetables and fried them on the hob. Adding lentils and chopped tomatoes then created the base for the soup. They sneakily added some seasoning and then left it to simmer. It was great to see how confident the children were with their cooking skills, especially the ones who obviously cook at home. It was also great for those children who don’t often get to cook at home. When they tasted the soup, most children thought it was very yummy. I thought it was delicious and I’ve already consumed three bowls so far this week.
Help at home: Here is the recipe in case you would like to cook it at home. I highly recommend it.
