In Geography, we’ve been exploring the world around us through our big question: “Where in the world are we?” Over the past few weeks, we’ve learned about world oceans, continents, and the countries that make up the UK. This week, we brought things closer to home to look at human and physical features in our local area—and even went on a walk around the village to spot them in real life! The children enjoyed exploring the village and pointing out the landmarks. In English,

We have made a super start exploring our enquiry question in RE: "What do Christians Learn from the Creation Story?" We began by recapping that the Creation story is at the beginning of the Bible and that it teaches Christians that God made everything in the world and universe. We then used our drawing skills to create images of God's creations, and thought about the beauty of nature and how fascinating all life can be! This week, the children then continued to explore our

On Wednesday, we got into our Pupil Voice colour groups for the first time this academic year. Mrs Lewis spoke to us about the different committees and how they are really important to ensuring we use our voices to help shape our school. We then put our hands up for which committees we wanted to be on and the teachers had a very hard job to choose just 8 children for each committee, there were a lot of hands up which was lovely to see. At Fountains we have: School Council, Re

This week in Class 2, we have started our exciting new topic on rivers. The children have been learning all about the major rivers in the UK, the different parts of a river, and how rivers are formed. One of the highlights of the week was our map reading lesson, where the children showed fantastic enthusiasm as they worked together to locate different rivers on a map. They really enjoyed using their geographical skills to identify river names and trace their routes across the

This week we have been working hard in maths. Our year ones and twos have been looking at the compostion of numbers to 20. We have used lots of concrete resources to build numbers, considering how many tens and ones the number has. We have also been working on our formation of numbers too. In Reception, we were inspired by NumberBlock 3's painting and decided to do some of our own. We made colourful splodges with paint, counting how many went on our page. They made beautiful

We have been enjoying our trumpet lessons on a Tuesday. We are developing our skills and improving each week. In Maths, we have continued our work on Place Value and are rehearsing this work with this week's homework. We began our Science work on light, by thinking about how light travels. On Thursday afternoons we have Mr Whitford for PE. This half term we are doing tag rugby. This week we also set up our School Sports Crew. Mr Whitford will be doing some leader training wit

We have had such a fantastic first week at school. It has been lovely to see the children come in so well and hear all about the wonderful summers they have had. They have enjoyed being with their friends again 😊 Reception have enjoyed exploring the areas of the classroom. They have been doing lots of puppet shows and very much liked dressing up as superheros. They spent a lot of time working together to build a special superhero den and playing in the new mud kitchen. I

We have had a super first week back in Class Three! The children have really impressed me with how quickly they have settled back in after 7 weeks off. A few of you will hopefully have already received a positivity postcard, as your child has done really well. I look forward to sending lots more home. This week we began our first book, The London Eye Mystery. We will be using this book in Guided Reading and English lessons this half term. In Maths we are starting the year wit

Our school recently completed the NSPCC's Speak out Stay safe programme. Speak out Stay safe is a safeguarding programme that aims to equip a generation of children with the knowledge they need to stay safe from abuse and neglect.

Well it has been a lovely final week in class one! We have very much enjoyed the year and have worked very hard. I couldn’t be prouder of the children they have made such amazing progress, and it has been so wonderful to see them develop over the year. I feel so lucky to work with such lovely children and their families too!! Last week, year one and two spent time making some support vehicles for the world cup as part of their DT learning. They looked at current vehicles an

Class one had the most magical day at Thorp Perrow. We started the day with a walk around the grounds where we spotted lots of wildlife and talked about the different plants and trees. Then we had a snack and walked to see the birds. We found out lots of information about the different types of birds of prey, where they live, what they eat and how they hunt. The children then enjoyed a show of the owls. There were three types of owl: "Titch" a barn owl, "Cathy" and Horn earre

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This week, in science we have been learning about plants and trees. We went on a walk of the school grounds and did some rubbings of bark and leaves. The children identified whether the tree was deciduous or evergreen. We also identified different plants. Back in the classroom, we labelled trees and plants with their parts and discussed how they help a plant survive. Reception have enjoyed doing some lovely writing about sports day last week. They used pictures to help them

In Class Three, we have spent lots of time this week and last doing sports. We have had our weekly PE lessons with Mr Whitford, where we have been looking at athletics, both track and field. On Fridays we have been swimming at Ripon Swimming Pool, Mrs Sumner is impressed with the progress we have made already. On Thursday last week, we had Sports Day. It was a lovely afternoon and was brilliant to see the children being engaged, showing determination but also showing their en

Well, it has been a rather hot week but that hasn’t stopped class one. We have been ever so busy! On Monday, reception enjoyed visiting playgroup. The explored the classroom and spent time with the children, it was lovely to see. They took shade in the willow den, spent time creating tracks for the vehicles and some of us enjoyed playing in their home corner. On Wednesday, we had ice lollies and enjoyed having a longer story time! It was a lovely treat. On Thursday, it

We had a wonderful day for our Sports Day, with the sunshine making the afternoon even more special and particularly hot. All of the children did incredibly well, showing fantastic determination and excellent teamwork throughout the events. The afternoon began with a lovely picnic lunch on the field. Following lunch, the children took part in a carousel of activities, which included: pace hopper races, hurdles, beat the keeper and skipping. They had a great try at everything

On Wednesday, Class 2 (alongside Class 3) set off on an inspiring cultural adventure to Leeds Art Gallery. It was a day packed with creativity, curiosity, and discovery! Morning Sketching We spent our morning exploring the magnificent collection, immersing ourselves in many different styles of art. The children marvelled at traditional landscapes, grand Victorian paintings, striking portraits, and fascinating modern sculptures. Inspired by what they saw, the children found th

On a very warm Wednesday this week we boarded the lovely air conditioned coach and set off for Leeds Art Gallery. We began our day making origami books, which we would use to record our thoughts and ideas. We then went to explore the Victorian painting gallery. Our workshop leader, Amanda talked to us about art galleries and about the paintings, we looked closely at some of the paintings, drawing key features of some of the pictures. We then discussed what we can learn about

On Tuesday afternoon, we were very lucky to have an opportunity to take part in a brass instrument workshop. We split into 2 groups and each of us got an instrument to play. We practised making a sound and how to play a 'c' on the trumpet. We joined in with Mr Novell to play a short tune. Next Tuesday we are having another workshop. If anyone would like to take up a music lesson please let us know.

World Cup fever has hit Class Three, we have spent time learning about the 2026 World Cup and how it is the first time it is being jointly hosted by 3 countries. We looked at the history of the World Cup and found out the first tournament was held in Uruguay and that they won it. England have only won it once, in 1966. But Brazil have won it 5 times. The children enjoyed finding out that the World Cup was stolen in 1966, from an exhibition in London and it was a dog called Pi

Class 2 had a fabulous day learning new skills last Friday. The artist Liz Harvey came into school and worked with the children to create some amazing art. The children sketched natural objects and explored different water colour techniques.

On Wednesday, we had a lovely walk of the village. The children enjoyed taking the time to notice things whilst also considering whether it was a human or physical feature. We noticed lots of signs that told us lots of houses used to be other things such as a post office. We talked about how much greenery there was around us and animals. It was a lovely afternoon! The year ones and two enjoyed making some posters for the 10k this Sunday! In Reception, we have been learning ab

In year one and two we have started our new unit in Geography which is all about the local area and school grounds. We began our learning by having a walk around the school grounds, looking and human and physical features. There were so many of each. In our My Happy Mind unit, we have been on the “appreciate” module. This week we had to think about the experiences we are grateful for. We enjoyed playing a game where one person acted out an experience, they were grateful for

Last week we had a very busy Friday. Firstly, we spent the morning at the Hydro taking part in the Brownlee Triathlon. The children got the opportunity to try out the 3 disciplines. It was a great morning and each of us received a goody bag. After lunch in the sunshine we then went to Ripon Swimming Pool for the first of our school swimming lessons this half term. On Tuesday, we were very pleased to be given the opportunity to take part in a marital arts workshop. Coach Milo