The school had a very important visitor on Friday: the most reverend Archbishop of York. Between Advent 2015 and Trinity 2016 the Archbishop will be engaging in a Diocesan Pilgrimage of Prayer, Witness and Blessing. The vision for this Pilgrimage lies in the roots of our Christian Heritage. Inspired by the great Northern Saints, such as...Read More

Over the Easter holidays a blackbird built a nest on top of the large cupboard under our shelter. We cordoned off the area and have been watching the blackbird closely for the past couple of weeks. Finally today we realised the eggs had hatched! Have a look at our photographs to see for yourselves!  Read More

Today the year 4, year 5 and year 6 children had a fantastic day at The Forbidden Corner; a unique labyrinth of tunnels, chambers, follies and surprises created within a four acre garden in the heart of Tupgill Park and the Yorkshire Dales. The temple of the underworld, the eye of the needle, a huge...Read More

The year 6 children revised the parts of flowering plants through dissection in their science lesson this week. They were encouraged to look in detail at the parts of a tulip and a daffodil using a hand lens and discovered that tulips and daffodils are “perfect flowers” because they have both male and female organs....Read More

A selection of eggs decorated by our talented children for the 2016 Eggtravaganza- Well done everyone!Read More

The Easter Eggtravaganza is a tradition at Sutton School with a range of “egg” related activities: egg jarping, egg throwing, egg rolling and egg decorating. It was the last eggtravaganza for our Y6 children before they move on to secondary school and they had a brilliant time, we hope that it will become one of their special...Read More

The children shared the  Easter Story with friends and family beautifully in church on Wednesday afternoon. They had worked together as a whole school to create a stained glass window depicting the key events from the story. The older children read passages from the bible and shared prayers. All the children received a palm cross...Read More

Today the whole school took part in activities to raise money for Sport Relief. In the morning we all ran one mile around the school grounds and in the afternoon each class took part in a fitness circuit. All children enjoyed the sporting activities and hopefully we have tired them out and they will sleep...Read More

Reception and Year One went on a fantastic trip to Monk Park Farm on Tuesday this week. We spent our day petting and feeding guinea pigs, lambs, goats, calves and even a big pig! Also we went for a woodland walk and saw many other animals including wallabies and llamas. One of the highlights of...Read More

The Year 6 children had fun creating craters in Science this week as part of their work on Earth and Space. The dark circles which you can see on the Moon (with your naked eye, or better with binoculars) are craters. A crater is a hollow on the surface of the Moon. These craters were...Read More