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Storyteller
The children had a lovely and exciting visit to school from local author, Suzy Senior. She read us three of her stories – ‘Octopants’, ‘How to spot a dinosaur’ and ‘Banana hunt’. The children really enjoyed listening to Suzy’s stories and also enjoyed joining in with...
Storyteller
The children in Nursery had a fantastic opportunity to listen to a storyteller today named Suzy Senior. The children enjoyed listening to some of her stories that she has written and published such as Octopants, How to spot a dinosaur and Banana Hunt. It was great to...
Storyteller
The children had a lovely and exciting visit to school from local author, Suzy Senior. She read us three of her stories - 'Octopants', 'How to spot a dinosaur' and 'Banana hunt'. The children really enjoyed listening to Suzy's stories and also enjoyed joining in with...
‘Why do you love me so much?’
What a wonderful start to the new school year it has been so far this term. This term in Nursery, we have welcomed some new faces to our class and have worked on exploring our environment and sharing our nursery toys, whilst learning new names of our friends. The...
DT Lesson
Class 9 have been working extremely hard in their DT lessons this half term. The children first explored healthy foods and healthy eating, learning about the different food groups and how they can impact our bodies. We also explored where our food comes from and the...
Class 8 Rugby Lesson
Children in class 8 have been enjoying learning the skills to play rugby in their PE lessons. In the first few weeks of this half term, children learnt how to hold the ball and pass to their partner. This week, children have learnt to kick the ball and they have been...
Fascinating world of materials
The children in Class 7 have been exploring the fascinating world of materials in science this half term. They have been exploring and discovering how everyday objects are made, what they are made from and what they are used for. They have learnt that plastic is a...
‘Why do you love me so much?’
The children in class 2 have had a wonderful start to their time in Reception. This half-term our topic is 'why do you love me so much?' The children have been participating in numerous activities, including sharing their treasure boxes from home, creating their own...
‘Why do you love me so much’
The children in Class One have had a fantastic start to the year and they have all settled into their new routines really well. The children have continued to develop friendships, old and new, and have enjoyed sharing lots of fun experiences together. We are so proud...
‘Can we explore it?’
The children in class 2 have had a great time learning about dinosaurs as part of our 'can we explore it?' topic. They have produced some amazing descriptive sentences about dinosaurs, explored ordering numbers both forwards and backwards using dinosaur footprints,...
Whirlow Farm June 2025
The Year 2 children had an amazing time on their residential at Whirlow Hall Farm on Wednesday 18th - Friday 20th June. They all enjoyed the farm tour and farm jobs which included feeding the animals, petting the animals and learning about what they like to eat and...
Whirlow Farm June 2025
The Year 2 children had an amazing time on their residential at Whirlow Hall Farm on Wednesday 18th - Friday 20th June. They all enjoyed the farm tour and farm jobs which included feeding the animals, petting the animals and learning about what they like to eat and...
Whirlow Farm June 2025
The Year 2 children had an amazing time on their residential at Whirlow Hall Farm on Wednesday 18th - Friday 20th June. They all enjoyed the farm tour and farm jobs which included feeding the animals, petting the animals and learning about what they like to eat and...
‘Can We Explore It?’
Our new topic this term is “Can we explore it”. So far, the children have enjoyed exploring various activities and resources on offer. We have used magnifying glasses to explore the sand and find hidden dinosaur bones. The children have enjoyed exploring the...
Balance Bike June 2025
The children enjoyed our session with Brad from Links. They learnt all about bike safety and the importance of wearing a helmet. The children followed a course set out by Brad and the instructions given. Brad also gave the children challenges such as giving him a...
Summer Topic June 2025
This half term Class 9 were focusing on their singing skills in music. The children enjoyed singing the "Naughty Kitty Cat" and "Apples on my Head" songs first without percussion instruments so that they could focus on their singing position. We then introduced...
Summer Topic June 2025
This half term in Geography, children in Class 8 are using their geographical knowledge of the local area to predict whether more cars will travel up or down the hill outside of school. We discussed what features in the local area may influence which direction cars...
Summer Topic June 2025
Class 7 had a fabulous afternoon with a historian learning about the local history of Stocksbridge, focussing mainly on the history of Samual Fox. The children learnt about the history of the paragon, parasols and umbrellas and how Samual Fox designed a lighter-weight...
Arts Week June 2025
During arts week in Nursery the children have loved exploring the book 'Rumble in the Jungle'. We have looked at the characters from the story and talked about how they move, what they eat and what they look like. We have really enjoyed making a clay snake and using...
Arts Week June 2025
The children in Reception have had an amazing time taking part in arts week! The children focussed on the story 'Tiddler' by Julia Donaldson. We have taken parts in a variety of activities including: collage, Modroc, painting, clay sculpting and making 3D sea...
Arts Week Class 1 June 2025
The children in Reception have had an amazing time taking part in arts week! The children focussed on the story 'Tiddler' by Julia Donaldson. We have taken parts in a variety of activities including: collage, Modroc, painting, clay sculpting and making 3D sea...
Eureka June 2025
The children had a fantastic time at Eureka on their school trip! As part of our 'can we explore it?' topic, the children did lots of exploring of their own in the various zones. These included the senses show, all about me, the spark gallery, living and working...
Eureka June 2025
The children had a fantastic time at Eureka on their school trip! As part of our 'can we explore it?' topic, the children did lots of exploring of their own in the various zones. These included the senses show, all about me, the spark gallery, living and working...
Class 1 Library trip May 2025
Reading brings many benefits to children including developing vocabulary and enhancing imagination, creativity and language skills. To create opportunities to develop reading further, the children have enjoyed a trip to Stocksbridge Library. During the visit, the...
Class 2 Library trip May 2025
Reading brings many benefits to children including developing vocabulary and enhancing imagination, creativity and language skills. To create opportunities to develop reading further, the children have enjoyed a trip to Stocksbridge Library. During the visit, the...
Stay & Play May 2025
The children in the 2 year old provision really enjoyed having their parents and family members come and join us for our stay and play session. We had many activities to do around our current topic. Lots of fun was had by all. [gallery size="full"...
“Why is water wet?”
In Nursery over the past couple of weeks we have loved to immerse ourselves in our topic "Why is water wet?". We have enjoyed making raindrop collages, printing flower pictures and making observations of different flowers inside and out of our nursery! We became...
Science Afternoon May 2025
This half term we held an exciting science afternoon in children made predictions, investigated and recorded results. In the research lesson the children used the internet to research what the impact of the melting polar ice caps may be on our planet and what we can...
Science Afternoon May 2025
This half term we held an exciting science afternoon in children made predictions, investigated and recorded results. In the research lesson the children used the internet to research what the impact of the melting polar ice caps may be on our planet and what we can...
Science Afternoon May 2025
This half term we held an exciting science afternoon in children made predictions, investigated and recorded results. In the research lesson the children used the internet to research what the impact of the melting polar ice caps may be on our planet and what we can...