Posts From Curriculum Category

Oct

🛠️✨Owls Take Flight with Pneumatic Power 🛠️✨

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🛠️✨ Creative Engineers in Year 3 The children in Year 3 Owls, taught by Miss Wilson, have been busy developing their engineering skills through an exciting Design and Technology project. As part of their learning, the children designed and created their own pneumatic systems, discovering how compressed air can be used to produce movement. They […]

Oct

🏗️🎶 Young Architects Take on the Stockeld Park Challenge

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This afternoon, the Year 5 and 6 children in Ravens, Eagles and Herons were lucky enough to welcome a very special visitor. David, Jamie’s grandad and a professional architect, came into school to support the children with an exciting design competition. The children have been invited by Stockeld Park to create ideas for a brand-new […]

Oct

📚 Stories, Coding and Creativity at Harrogate Library

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🐛 Coding Caterpillars and Book Adventures for Owls Class As part of our ongoing strong partnership with Harrogate Library, our classes enjoy regular visits throughout the year, helping children develop a lifelong love of reading and learning. This week, it was the turn of our Year 3 Owls Class to visit the library. The children […]

Oct

Love, Learn, Shine Through Storytelling

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🎨📖  Bringing Troll Swap to Life Over the past few weeks, our children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the wonderful story Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson. Through reading, discussion, art and writing, the children have immersed themselves in the adventures of Timothy and Tabitha, developing their creativity, imagination and communication skills along the way. The children […]

Oct

Love, Learn, Shine: A Week to Remember at Bewerley Park

Posted In Curriculum, Events, Lets Celebrate

When our Year 6 children returned from their residential visit to Bewerley Park last week, they came back with far more than muddy boots and tired smiles. They returned with increased confidence, stronger friendships, new skills and unforgettable memories that will stay with them long after their primary school journey ends. Over the course of […]

Oct

✍️ The Magic of Books Inspires Wonderful Poetry ✍️

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🌟 From Flying Books to Fantastic Poems This week, the children have been inspired by the beautiful story The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore. Through their writing journey, they explored the magic and power of books, using their wonderful imaginations to create vivid imagery and experiment with figurative language. The children thought carefully […]

Oct

🐚 Spirals in Nature: Kingfishers’ Artistic Discoveries

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✏️ Creativity Unfolds in Kingfishers’ Spiral Art Project Kingfishers Class have been exploring how spirals can be found throughout the natural world in their art lessons this week. Using shells as their inspiration, the children developed their observational drawing skills while discovering a range of exciting techniques with soft pencils. First, the children experimented with […]

Oct

🌟 Following in the Footsteps of Greatness How Simone Biles and Jesse Owens Inspired Exceptional Writing

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From Talk to Text: Year 5 and 6 Writers Shine There has been a real buzz about writing across Year 5 and 6 this term as children have immersed themselves in a range of exciting literacy opportunities. Drawing inspiration from remarkable athletes such as Simone Biles and Jesse Owens, children have explored biographical writing, diary […]

Oct

🏛️ Roman Reporters Bring History to Life

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🎥 Year 4 Become Roman News Reporters! Year 4 had a fantastic time using their class tablets to become Roman News Reporters in History. Working collaboratively, the children created their own video news reports, sharing the changes that took place in Britain following the Roman invasion. The children demonstrated excellent historical knowledge whilst developing their […]

Oct

🎨 Sparrows Create Masterpieces with Nature

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🍂 Love, Learn, Shine Through Nature Art Today, Sparrows Class became nature artists as they explored how natural objects can be arranged to create different compositions. The children ventured outdoors to collect a variety of natural materials, including leaves, twigs, stones and conkers, while thinking carefully about how to respect and care for the world […]