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Learning about Design Technology

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

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

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

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...

Happy Lunchtimes

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. 

Mothers Day

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. 

Golden Stars

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.

Healthy Me

Healthy Me

As part of our theme on Healthy Me, all the children learned some basic first aid skills.  They know how to put someone in the recovery position, how to put on a simple bandage, what to do if someone is choking and how to help a person if they are having an asthma...

Christmas Nativities

Christmas Nativities

Over the last couple of weeks the children have performed 5 wonderful nativities.  Each nativity has been different, special and wonderful.  Our Nursery children performed in their very first nativity with children reciting lines, acting out their parts and singing...

Park and stride

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.

Our Golden Rules

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

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.

Y2 Drumming

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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...