‘Learning for Life.’
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Golden Star Assembly
Our second Golden Star Assembly of the last week of Autumn 1 was a lively affair. We all enjoyed it! Well done to the children who were chosen this half term for trying so hard to always keep our Golden Rules. Thank you grown-ups for coming along and joining in the fun.
Golden Rules
On Monday we celebrated children who have tried very hard this half term to keep all our Golden Rules. We had a super assembly. Parents, grandparents and friends came to enjoy the event.
Harvest Festival
On Tuesday 21st October, we celebrated Harvest with our Festival. All the children brought out an offering for our display. We sang songs and said our thank yous for all the things we have to be grateful for. Our Alpine Lodge friends came to join in with our...
The Hare and the Tortoise
We all enjoyed The Hare and the Tortoise performed by Tutti Frutti. It was a terrific show. Some of our friends from Alpine Lodge came over. They enjoyed it too.
Easter
As part of our learning about Easter we have a hat parade. There are some marvellous creations! This year it was a little windy so we had to hold on tight to our hats!
Visit to Alpine Lodge
Each week some children visit our friends in Alpine Lodge, our local care home. We play games with the residents, read stories and share drinks and biscuits together.
Golden Stars
In May we celebrated more Golden Stars. These are children who try very hard to keep our Golden Rules.
Fathers Day
We celebrated Fathers' Day with breakfast in school. It was so good to see so many dads, grandads, friends
Sports Day
The sun shone for our sports days last week. The children were wonderful and tried so hard in all their events. The grown-ups were pretty competitive too! Sports Days were followed by a lovely family picnic on the school field. it was lovely to have so many family...
Summer Celebrations
Reception children had a great time at their summer celebration last week. FOSNI (our little PTA) did a brilliant job of organising and running the event.
Raspberry Smoothies in Gardening Club
The Gardening Club has been working hard over the past few weeks to care for our raspberry plants. This week, the children were delighted to see that the fruit was finally ready to be picked. With great excitement, they...
Gold Star Assembly
On Friday, we held our first Golden Star assembly of 2025. A big well done to all of these children (and a few more) who work so hard to keep our Golden Rules and make our school a happy and safe place.
Alife the Elf
On Friday, Alfie the Elf came to visit to tell the children all about the latest happenings in Santa's workshop. He made the children (and grown-ups) laugh with stories about Santa's underpants.
Christingle
This year all the children have attended Christingle Services either here in school or up at the Christian Centre. They have learnt all about what Christingles mean and sung happy birthday to Jesus.
Christmas Nativity
Over the last week or so, all our children have taken part in a nativity. They have sung and danced, acted and said lines. Some children have overcome their nerves and performed in a nativity for the very first time. We are so proud of all the children and how well...
Workout with Lee
We started the morning with a workout with Lee, from Stocksbridge Leisure Centre, as part of our 10-day active challenge. We all enjoyed it. Lee made us out of breath and laugh at the same time.
Visit to Yorkshire Sculpture Park
'Last week we visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of our learning about megastructures. We had two chilly but great days working with artists. The children spent time in the morning looking at different sculptures, sketching them and making models of them. ...
Halloween Disco
We all enjoyed our fundraising Halloween Disco. Many thanks to FOSNI for organising and running it.
Gold Sports Mark 2024
We are absolutely thrilled to have been awarded the LINKS Gold Sports Mark for KS1 in 2023-24. Criteria for the Gold Sports Mark is: All children take part in both PE and extra curricular physical activity on a weekly basis. School ensures all KS1 children take part...
Active Travel Awards 2024
On Wednesday we found out that we had been awarded the Modeshift Primary School of the Region Award for active and sustainable travel. That is for the whole of Yorkshire and Humberside! On top of that we also won the Sheffield STARS Local Authority Primary School of...
Learning about Design Technology
We've had a day looking at Design Technology through school. We have seen and heard some wonderful learning about joining techniques, sliders, pivots and mechanisms. The children were all enjoying their learning too. We heard some 'wow's as we went around. One...
Harvest Festival
We celebrated our harvest festival assembly today. Thank you to everyone who donated. The food has been delivered to the food bank in Stocksbridge.
Golden Time at nearyby Care Home
Each Friday some children choose to spend their Golden Time with residents at our nearby Care Home. The children are truly wonderful at playing games with them. Some residents are there every week and say they wouldn't miss it for the world. One resident said she...
Our tour to Weston Park
This half term we have been learning about Sheffield. As part of this we went on a tour visiting Weston Park, The Botanical Gardens and Sheffield City Centre. We visited and learnt about important places and buildings in our city. We noticed that Weston Park and...
Meet Our New School Crossing Patrol
Today we welcomed Richard to our school. He is going to be our new school crossing patrol. Richard visited all the classes today to introduce himself. He talked about how we can cross the roads safely.
Happy Lunchtimes
We have been working on having happy lunchtimes, remembering to follow our Golden Rules outside as well as inside. Today we had a great lunchtime. The children listened, played games with the equipment and enjoyed each others' company.
World Book Day 2024
Book Day Stocksbridge NI style. This year we came dressed as an adjective.
Mothers Day
For Mothers' Day we invited our mums, grandmas, aunts and friends into school to celebrate with us. We sang for them, had quizzes, baked buns, made cards and gave flowers. Everyone had a really great time.
Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel
We are taking part in Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel. Last week the children 'blinged' their bikes and scooters and we had a lovely parade in the playground.
Golden Stars
Just before the half term holiday we celebrated some more Golden Stars. These are children who have worked really hard to keep our Golden Rules all half term. We enjoyed two lovely assemblies with friends and families.




























