‘Learning for Life.’
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Fill your tummy Friday
We celebrated the first week of our active travel challenge by having a second breakfast before school started.
Park and stride
Miss Rogers and Mr Barker met some children at Stocksbridge Leisure Centre. We all walked to school and kept an eye out for road safety pictures.
Fun at the Halloween Disco
Our Y2 children had lots of fun at the Halloween Disco
Our Golden Rules
Each half term all the grown-ups in school nominate someone who has kept our Golden Rules. We celebrate this in special assemblies at the end of each half term. Here are our nominees for the first autumn half term.
Golden Time
In school we celebrate the children's wonderful behaviour each week with Golden Time. There are lots of activities on offer. Here are some children enjoying paper aeroplane club.
This week Classes 1,2,3,4 & 5 visited Old Moor Wetland Centre
This week Clases 1,2,3,4 & 5 visited Old Moor Wetland Centre. We learnt more about minibeasts and their habitats. We all enjoy bug hunting and pond dipping.
The Orchard
Y2 Drumming
Since September, Year 2 have been learning how to play the drums. They have had a fantastic time playing along to pop songs and have worked incredibly hard perfecting their musical skills. Year 2 have explored pulse, dynamics and staying in time with the music.
Den Building in Forest Schools
Class 3 had such a fun time during our first Forest Schools session! The children enjoyed exploring the school field and the meadow, looking for signs of spring. We found, daffodils, green leaves and some insects. After our spring hunt, the children worked together to...
A Celebration for King Charles III
What a brilliant time Year 2 had celebrating the coronation of King Charles III. Even though the rain poured, nothing could stop the children enjoying their picnic with friends. The children made crowns, sang the National Anthem and dressed in red, white and blue. A...
A visit to Eyam
What a fantastic time we had visiting Eyam. 13000 steps and no complaints of being too tired to carry on! We were all 'Plague detectives' and found evidence to tell us that The Plague really did happen and wasn't just a story that we had made up. We visited the...
A Trip to the English Institute of Sport
Our Year 1 and Year 2 children have had an amazingly busy time at the E.I.S. There are so many different P.E activities to do that the children only have time for one rest station! The buses were definitely quieter coming home than when we were travelling there in the...
World Book Day – Thursday 2nd March
On Thursday 2nd March we celebrated World Book Day. We invited all of the children to come to school dressed up as a ‘word.’ In school, we have a big focus on vocabulary and this is a way of celebrating some of our favourite words. If you can't see the 'word' in the...
Making Vehicles – with moving wheels!
Mrs Hepp from Hepp DT came to work with us again this term and this time we've been making vehicles with moving wheels! We used G-clamps and junior hacksaws to cut our wood before adding the axle holders, axles and wheels. It was so exciting when we could move our...
Amy Johnson workshop
Did you know that Amy Johnson is a very famous lady because of her daring escapades in flying? She was the first woman to fly solo (all by herself) from England to Australia back in 1930! We had great fun pretending to be Amy Johnson on her brave journey and we also...
A Day at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Our Year 1 & Year 2 children (and our grown-ups!) have had a fabulous day out at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park. We looked at lots of wonderful, colourful and inspirational sculptures. Then we drew some of them as we walked around the grounds. It was fantastic as we...
Reception Waterfight!
As their end of term treat our reception children made the most of the lovely warm weather by having a fabulous, fun-filled water fight. The squeals of joy could be heard inside school - and that was just from the grown-ups! [gallery...
KS1 LINKS Cricket Festival
All of our Year 1 and Year 2 children had a fabulous morning at Stocksbridge Cricket Club learning lots of different cricket skills as well as working as a part of a team. Our sports partners, LINKS had organised it so well that all of the grown-ups that came with us...
Nursery Seaside Day
What absolutely wonderful fun we had on Wednesday. The screams of delight, the laughter, the smiles...now that’s what being 3 or 4 is all about. Thank you to all the children for making our day such a happy one. Miss Rogers has chosen all the Nursery staff for this...
Bridlington – June 2022
We can just tell by the children's faces what a brilliant time we had in Bridlington. The weather was kind, the beach was perfect and the grown-ups who joined us were amazing. We could not have done it without them. The children had a paddle but we weren't worried...
Family Picnic – June 2022
We were able to hold our favourite day of the year again this year! How fabulous it was to see so many family members join us on our Family Picnic. This year we had the fun, we had the weather AND we had many, many grown-ups join us. Thank you! [gallery...
Sports Day – June 2022
What a fabulous day we had for all of our children! This year we had lovely weather AND we were able to welcome all of our parents to join us and cheer the children on. The children loved joining in with all the different activities as it's the only time of year that...
Enterprise Week In School
We’ve had a fantastic week in school where children have decided what they would like to raise funds for, planned an enterprise event, invited parents, promoted it, run the event, counted the proceeds and ordered their chosen items. The children have ‘flexed’ many...
10 Day Active Challenge – Selfies
We've already done several challenges this week to help towards our 10 Day Active Challenge project, like our A-Z Hunt, our Hoola Hoop Challenge and our 'Bright Be Seen Day'. We have to say though that we do love the 'Selfie' challenges!
World Book Day – 3rd March 2022
What a fabulous day we had in school today. We had lots of entries for the book themed baking competition and it was really hard to choose the winners. Thank you to everyone who took part. Take a look at some of the children's amazing outfits! Can you guess...
Christmas Dinner
Our very happy, excited children have enjoyed a lovely Christmas dinner 'with all the trimmings'! We also had crackers which had our hats and some funny jokes inside. It is such a special time of year for us in school. Merry Christmas to everyone!
Christmas Jumper Day
'Today we had our annual 'Christmas Jumper Day' event. Do you think we're getting ready for a 'special visitor'? We're certainly getting very excited and seeing everyone in beautiful, bright Christmas jumpers has definitely put us well into the Christmas spirit!'
Modeshift Stars – Celebration
As part of our Platinum Modeshift Stars celebration, our children were treated to a trip back in time. We met at Stocksbridge Leisure Centre where we were all surprised to see Charles Dickens. The children showed him the way to school and he rewarded our efforts in...
Tutt Frutti Theatre Group
All of our children have enjoyed a wonderful, exhilarating visit from the 'tutti frutti' theatre group. Do you want to hear a true story? Well.. imagine a place where what you see is not what it seems, A hidden place with forgotten stories, A place where the...
Platinum Modeshift Stars Award
We have just been awarded the Platinum Modeshift Stars Award - the only school in Sheffield to have it! Well done to all of our children, parents and staff who have supported our Modeshift Star events through our ‘Active Travel’ initiative such as ‘Park & Stride’...