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

We have finished Geography and have now begun our Science work, focusing on meterials and their properties. Lesson 1 was a very practical lesson where the children explored how they could group materials based on their properties. In this lesson, we tested the hardness and transparency of a range of materials. We looked at whether things were magnetic, if they could conduct electricity and if they were thermal conductors. The children were really engaged! On Friday, it was NS

This week we have spent time looking at our world faith of the year, Hinduism. We had a whole school Collective Worship, where we were able to share what we could remember from our previous sessions. Then in Class we spent time learning about the Mandir, the Hindu place of worship. During the lesson, we looked at the key features of a Mandir, what happens in a Mandir. We looked at who went and when they went. We also learnt that Hindus have shrines in their homes and they use

On a rather wet Thursday morning, Class 3 went into Ripon to carry out fieldwork as part of their Geography topic. Our enquiry question is 'Should Ripon have a train station?'

This week as well as all of our usual lessons, we were visited by Miss M, from Sporting Influence. She had come to teach us all about first aid. The session began by us thinking about what first aid is and when are where we might need it. We looked at what is in a first aid kit and all the children knew where the first aid kits are kept in school. We then looked at DR ABC, which stands for; Danger Response Airway Breathing Circulation We then talked about how we would get hel

Welcome back! It was lovely to see the children back after their Christmas break and to hear what they have been up to. This week, we have started our new block subject, Geography. This half term we are answering the question 'Should Ripon have a train station?' The children were very enthusiastic to share their opinions and ideas on this from the start. Our first lesson looked at where Ripon is and how it is connected. In this lesson we shared what we already knew about Ripo

Here is our Curriculm overview for this term. Here is a copy of our timetable

With the tree lights twinkling and the advent calendar nearing the end, Class Three have certainly squeezed a lot into the last week of this term. In maths, we looked at multiplying large numbers by 1 and 2 digits. Before moving onto short division, using the bus stop method. In English, we were thinking about instructions and with it being Christmas we have used Dr Seuss' How the Grinch stole Christmas as our inspiration. The children looked closely at the features of more t

This week in school Christmas has crept in, the decorations are up and our Collective Worships have included practising for our Carol Concert. On Wednesday afternoon, we filled Sawley church and had a lovely time sharing the festivities with our families. Class Three retold the nativity through a poem, some of the children made some illustrations to go with it. Our afternoon focus has been Science, this half term we are looking at animals including humans. We have looked clos

We have been working so hard in Class Three this week, we have done our termly assessments first thing each day this week and we have really really impressed Miss Rogers with our positive attitude. We used our time well and didn't rush to get finished. In our afternoon block sessions we have been focusing on Science, this half term we are focusing on living things and their habitats. We began by looking at how we know if something is living, the children showed a good underst

This week it has been Art Week in school. We have been focusing on pattern and print making. We looked at famous printer William Morris, the children researched William Morris and found out lots of interesting information about him and his artwork. We then explored lots of different printing techniques. Mono printing with stencils, mono printing with line drawing, relief printing, impressed printing and layer printing. Some of these were tricky to get right. But the children

We have just finished writing our narratives with a mythical creature in them. We were inspired by the book Malamander, which we have been reading in class. In the build up to writing our own narratives, we looked at writing dialogue. We made sure to use the correct punctuation and ensured there was a purpose to the dialogue. Did it move the story on. We wrote descriptions of the creatures that would feature in our own stories. Then we looked at ways in which we could build t

This week we looked at our World Religion for 2025-2026, Hinduism. This week's learning included learning where and when the religion started. We then compare this to where Hindus can be found today. We also looked at the key information about Hindus and the children created a fact file full of key facts. We compared Hinduism to the other main World Religions we have looked at in other years. Finally, we began looking at how the key beliefs Hindus have impact the way that th

We have had a good first week back. We are continuing to read Malamander in Guided Reading and now we are also going to use the book as a stimulus for our writing. In Maths we are continuing with our work on fractions. Our block subject for the beginning of this half term is Geography. In Geography, we are looking at the big question ' Where in the world are we?' We began by looking at the continents and main oceans of the earth. We looked at our exact location on the earth,

We have had a slightly shorter week this week, but we have still covered a lot. In Maths, we have moved onto fractions. In our Theme lessons, we are now doing Geography and answering the question 'Where in the World are we?' We will share more about this work after half term. In English, this week we have been looking at Kenning Poems. A Kenning Poem is like a riddle. The poem is 2 words per line and often follows a noun- verb pattern. Here are some examples of our poems, can