To celebrate the end of Book Week our children dressed up as book characters and their costumes were amazing! It was great to see the staff joining in the fun with some interesting outfits… At the end of the morning the school football team challenged the staff to a match; watched by a very vocal...Read More

Stephen was born in Yorkshire in England in 1976. He has been illustrating since 1998 and creates pictures for books, posters, cards, jigsaws, maps, advent calendars, packaging and magazines. He likes to  use bright, bold colours to create characters with lots of detail, lighting and atmosphere to tell stories. He has  written and illustrated his own series of books for Bloomsbury...Read More

For Newsletter no 10, dated 26th November 2015    click hereRead More

In the last week of the half term we decided to take our learning outdoors. The whole class brought their Wellington boots and a warm coat to school and we explored the school grounds. We went on an Autumn walk, collected and identified leaves, made leaf crowns, built hibernation homes and went on a bear...Read More

In Design and Technology the Year 4, 5 and Year 6 children have been researching, planning, designing and building to scale models of Viking Long ships. They all made a paper prototype first before beginning to make their final design out of thick card. Brilliant!Read More

The Year 4 and 5 children have been investigating 3D shapes using straws and plasticine to help them. They used 2D images and visualised the 3D shapes, concentrating on the number of edges, faces and vertices of each shape. Following this the children continued their investigation to see if they could find any patterns between...Read More

In maths the children have been doing addition and subtraction in a ‘real life’ context buying Wonka Bars and working out how much change they would receive.Read More

On Wednesday 4th November the Year 3, 4, 5 and 6’s went to Easingwold Secondary School to take part in the cluster schools cross country event. The children all did their best and we were very successful as a school, with many children qualifying for the final which will be held on Tuesday 17th November....Read More

In Science the year 4 and 5 class have been investigating changing states. The children were each given a chocolate button to hold in the palm of their hand with their fingers closed around it whilst Mrs Bird read the poem ‘Chocolate’ by Michael Rosen. Once the poem was finished the children opened their hands...Read More

We have great fun learning football skills with Jack from York City Football Club every Wednesday afternoon.  Read More