As part of our topic on Evolution and Inheritance the upper juniors became fossil hunters for the afternoon. Using very delicate tools (toothpicks!) they had to extract as many fossils from the rocks as possible ( the rocks were biscuits and the fossils were chocolate chips). They then had to use gummy snakes and layers...Read More

Year two and three have been working really hard in their maths lessons this term. They have been practicing their times tables, division skills, addition and subtraction as well as investigating capacity and mass. Many children have also bought in homemade times table games which we have all enjoyed playing in ERIC time. Well done...Read More

Year 2 and 3 have learned lots about light and shadows in our “Bright Sparks” topic this term. One of our favourite experiments we have done is investigating how shadows change. We all managed to make the length of a shadow change by moving the light source closer and further away from different objects. Then...Read More

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Year 2 and 3 have been reading and writing poems around the theme of space this term. We have all enjoyed learning more about space through poetry as well as practising our rhyming, riddle skills and limerick writing. We had a poetry reading session where the children could stand up in front of the class...Read More

There was a super atmosphere in school today as children arrived dressed in red and wearing silly noses. A huge thank-you to all the parents who donated cakes for the cake stall. We will let you know next week how much we raised.Read More

The Y5/6 children had a super morning making pancakes-they were delicious. They also completed mathematical questions all related to pancake day…  Read More

  In their Science Topic on Evolution and Inheritance the Y5/6 children have been studying the work of Charles Darwin.Part of Darwin’s voyage included a visit to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, close to South America. Islands form a very important piece of evidence in Darwin’s theory, because they isolate populations from each other....Read More

Year 2 and 3 have been exploring light and shadows in science lessons this term. We have been learning all about how shadows are created when the light from a light source is blocked. We used our knowledge of shadows to create some exciting shadow puppets, blocking the light and only allowing the light to go...Read More

The Y5/6 children had a super day on Wednesday which began with a trip into York on the local bus! As a church school we are invited annually by the York Diocese to learn more about our Cathedral,however we usually take our children on a two yearly cycle. During interractive workshops and guided tours the...Read More