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This half term we have had a fantastic time doing Art. We have created our own portraits in the style of Julene Opie and used charcoal to draw our own owls using light and shade.  We took inspiration from our Science topic to make pipe cleaner bodies moving in different ways. Finally, we made poppies using tissue paper, card and …

On ‘v’ day, Terry Gee from Asda came in his van. He brought a selection of fruits for us to try. Some of the children tried fruits they have never tried before and really enjoyed it. We talked about how and why fruit is good for you.

Thank you for your fantastic response to our tea bag appeal.  Mrs Groark will be sending the tea bags to South Africa.  We have collected 4 shoe box fulls and last day for dropping them off will be 19th October.

We had great fun at our first gardening club session.We talked about the rules we need to follow while in the allotment. Then we dug up the potatoes and picked as many tomatoes as we could. We gave them to Jan to cook for our dinner the next day.

Over the next couple of weeks we are going to be doing some art, based around the artist Julian Opie. Today we made different body shapes outside, then chose the best ones to draw around. Using photographs of the shapes we sketched the body shapes into our art books. Our next step is to make different body shapes for our …

We took part in the school sponsored run. We had to run as many times as we could around the course. Some of our grown ups even joined in.

Reception class have settled into school so well. Our buddies have really helped us to feel happy in our new school.

We’ve had great fun keeping active. We learnt how to hula hoop and played games with our hoops.

Scratch is probably the most effective and commonly used programming software used in Primary schools. If you haven’t come across Scratch, it is basically a visual programming language, used to easily create games, animations and simulations. The range of things that you can do with Scratch is truly amazing and provides an ideal stepping stone to the more advanced world …

We are proud to announce that Isaac and Isabella were selected to be Head Boy and Head Girl this year. Working alongside them will be their deputies, Isla and William. We are sure all children will do a great job within their new roles and be fantastic representatives for our school. 

Year 6 had great fun meeting their reception class buddies on Tuesday.

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Well done to Year 6 and Reception who took part in the sandcastle competition and  well done to the winner who won £200 for our school.  

Year 6 had a fantastic time at the Youth Village on Monday.  The theme was Plan Be helping the children realise that not all plans go as expected and this is ok. It is something which was really relevant as they will soon be moving onto Secondary School in September and they will realise they have different interests and make …

Day 1: We have definitely needed the suncream – it has been beautiful weather! We enjoyed lunch outside and played in the park then, once Stuart arrived, we headed down into Swaledale Valley to Reeth. We enjoyed skimming stones, making some sunhats and then relaxing with an ice cream on the village green.  On our way back we did a …