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Mar

Climate Crew Visit Harlow Carr Eco Event

Posted In Community, Curriculum, Events

On Wednesday, our Climate Crew took part in an exciting climate change event at RHS Harlow Carr. The children took part in three fascinating workshops about waste and recycling, supporting biodiversity and living in a more eco-friendly way. Mrs Pywell was blown away by the children’s brilliant contributions to the workshops – they threw themselves […]

Mar

History To Life

Posted In Curriculum, Events

Children in Key Stage Two have had their history learning brought to life with a visit from living history specialists from Murton Park this week. Equipped with a host of artefacts and clothing items children learn from expert historians in a special assembly and follow up workshops. They had the chance to handle artefacts learning […]

Mar

Our Spiritual Shine

Posted In Community, Events, Worship

We were delighted to welcome Sue Kirby and a team of wonderful volunteers from both St Peter’s and St Paul’s churches into school this week to host the running of a prayer and reflective spaces event. On Monday the team transformed ‘The Snug’ into a prayer and reflective spaces room ready for visits from Tuesday. […]

Mar

Our Sporting Shine

Posted In Sports

We were delighted to take a nine strong team of children from years 1 and 2 to Harrogate High this week to take part in the Sporting Influence dodgeball competition series. Seven schools in all took part in the competition, and we played against them all, overall, we came 2nd out of the 7 schools. Bobby […]

Mar

Book Shop Prize Winners Visit

Posted In Community, Events

We were delighted to take our World Book Day competition winners to a special book workshop at Waterstones Bookshop in Harrogate this week. All the children had won their class book cover competition and enjoyed a lovely visit. The children had the opportunity to learn about how the shop operates, browse the books and enjoy […]

Mar

World Book Day Celebrations

Posted In Curriculum, Events

We all very much enjoyed celebrating World Book Day 2025 in style today with a host of special events and activities including making the most of our newly updated library and nurture room facilities. Both these spaces have recently been fully refurbishment with a focus on creating relaxing and nurturing spaces which enable children to […]

Feb

World Thinking Day

Posted In Community, Events

We were delighted to be involved in recognising and celebrating World Thinking Day this week. Celebrated since 1926, World Thinking Day is a day of international friendship. It is an opportunity to celebrate the Girl Guiding and Scouting Movements speak out on issues that affect young people and fundraise for 10.8 million Girl Guides and […]

Feb

Trevor Inspires Learning

Posted In Curriculum

In Science this week the Wrens have been looking at life cycles. They have learnt all about the life cycle of a frog and explored some messy play that looked just like frog spawn! Trevor the tortoise needed a bath this week so the children in the Wrens class have helped Mrs Renton bath him! […]

Feb

Year 5&6 Poetry

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In Eagles and Ravens, children have been writing poetry based on a wonderful book called ‘The Lost Spells’. The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treasure that introduces a beautiful set of natural spell-poems and artwork by beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris. The children wrote their own acrostic poem, about an animal or […]

Feb

Eco Council Launch New Award

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Following suggestions from the children in our Eco Group we are pleased to have launched a new weekly award. The Golden Light Switch award is presented each week to the class who have earned the most eco points throughout the week. Points can be earned every day by switching off the lights and smartboard when […]