On Wednesday, Class Three went to Roseberry Topping to carry out some fieldwork linked to our Geography topic. We have been looking at mountains and the impact that they have. Our trip began with meeting our 2 guides for the day and they had brought along their dog mischief. We walked up to the halfway point with Grewelthorpe. Parts of the path were very steep. We learnt how the National Trust are looking after Roseberry Topping and how recently they have been using helicopte

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

This week in English, we have begun our next unit of work, Narrative. We have been reading the book Kensuke's Kingdom and are going to use this a stimulus in our writing. To start this unit we looked at description. As a class we looked at pictures and watched videos of powerful storms so we could appreciate what it might be like in a storm at sea. We then created a word bank of exciting adjectives and imagery. After talking about different ways we could start our sentences

This week has been SATs week for the Year 6s. I am so so proud of the children and how they have tackled this week. They have had a positive attitude and worked through the tests well. Well done Year 6! The Year 5 children have continued with their usual learning, all be it in a very quiet way. This week, they have been focusing on handwriting and creative writing in English. They have also been revising their addition and subtraction skills in Maths, as well as looking at th

This week we have been working incredibly hard in English and Maths and have been revising some of the topics we learnt in earlier in the year. In Maths, we have looked at fractions, long multiplication, roman numerals, area, perimeter, circles and percentages. It was lovely to see how much the children had remembered from our previous work on these topics and to see how their confidence had grown. The Year 6s then applied this knowledge to some practise SATs papers, ready fo

This week we have continued our learning about Maya. We have spent time finding out and reasearching their Gods. The children then put this information into a double page spread. We understood how important religion was to the Maya people and how this was shown through their everyday lives. We listened to the Maya Creation story and found out the Maya Gods tried to create humans in 3 ways. The Maya had over 150 Gods, the children focused on a few of those, finding out what th

This week in Class Three we have finished our first Maths unit of the term, statistics. This topic has involved looking at range of graphs: line graphs, bar charts, pie charts, tables and timetables. The children have practised drawing their own graphs from a given set of data and answering questions and retrieving information from graphs and charts. Our last lesson was spent looking at the mean. The children understand that the mean means average and to find the mean you add

I hope everyone had a great Easter holidays. It was great to see the children back in school. As we have started a new term this week has meant starting lots of new units of work. In Maths, we are looking at statistics; we have covered line graphs, bar graphs and tables of data so far. In Guided Reading we have read the first chapter of Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. Before reading the first chapter, the children used the front cover and the blurb to make predictions

This week may have only been a short one, but we have certainly fit a lot in. On Tuesday the children who expressed an interest went to Outwood and took part in a Cross Country competition, against lots of local schools. They were brilliant ambassadors of our school and our Y5/6 boys took lots of the top 20 places. After school on Tuesday, a team of children went to North Stainley and took on Grewelthorpe and North Stainley in a dodgeball tournament. In school all week, it ha

Class Three have worked so hard this week to demonstrate their knowledge and ability across the core subjects. This week we have spent lots of time doing our termly assessments and the Year 6s used this as a practise for their SATs in May. All of the children showed a positive attitude and put lots of effort into the tests. It was nice to end the week with a more relaxed Friday, taking part in Red Nose Day. Alongside our assessments, we finished our Science unit- Earth and Sp

On Tuesday we took part in a workshop about the life of Jesus. The children sat and listened really well to the adults leading the workshop. We spent time learning about the miracles that Jesus worked. We met some of the people from the Bible who came to life and explained their stories. We appreciated the juice and biscuits that they brought to share with us. In Maths, we have been looking at percentages. This unit began by understanding that % means out of 100, so 34% mean

We have had a lovely week in Class Three, on Tuesday we went to Lime Tree Farm to visit their planetarium. We learnt so much about the stars and constellations, we then learnt about our solar system including the sun and planets. The children created a model of our solar system, with them being the planets, to help them understand the distances between the planets. The children behaved really well. This trip was the launch for our Earth & Space Science topic which we will st

This week, in Science the children have been investigating soluble and insoluble. They really enjoyed their learning and worked well in groups to investigate different scientific questions. We started the lesson ensuring we knew what the different scientific terms meant and then we began to plan an investigation. We focused on our working scientifcally skills and made sure our plans were fair tests. In their books the children wrote all the sections of an investigation and th

We have made it to the end of a busy half term. This last week in school has been art week and the children have been focusing on painting. We began by finding out about famous British artist, David Hockney and his artwork. The children carried out some super research and presented their work in different ways. We then looked closely at some examples of his work annotating our own thoughts and what we had found out about the pieces. Then we began our art skills learning. Firs