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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...
Forest School May 2025 Day 4
The children completed their last Forest Schools session. As part of the session the children fetched water from the stream and they added items into their “magic” bucket. They had to add as many different natural items into the water and stir it with their wand (we...
Forest School May 2025 Day 4
The children completed their last Forest Schools session. As part of the session the children fetched water from the stream and they added items into their “magic” bucket. They had to add as many different natural items into the water and stir it with their wand (we...
Forest School May 2025 Day 3
Children attended session three of Forest Schools. As part of this session the children were so confident at relaying how to stay safe in the woodlands. It has been brilliant to see the children’s confidence grow in the space of a few days. As part of today’s session,...
Forest School May 2025 Day 3
Children attended session three of Forest Schools. As part of this session the children were so confident at relaying how to stay safe in the woodlands. It has been brilliant to see the children’s confidence grow in the space of a few days. As part of today’s session,...
Forest School May 2025 Day 2
As part of day two the children recapped how to stay safe in the woodlands. In order to build the children’s confidence, they also completed an activity from yesterday where they explored the woodlands. Due to the wet weather the conditions were much more slippery....
Forest School May 2025 Day 2
As part of day two the children recapped how to stay safe in the woodlands. In order to build the children’s confidence, they also completed an activity from yesterday where they explored the woodlands. The children then enjoyed finding their name cards that were...
Forest School May 2025 Day 1
The children in Class 2 had a fantastic time at forest schools. They were taught how to stay safe in the woodlands and spot potential hazards. They also looked at staying within certain boundaries. The children were then given time to explore the woodlands and use...
Forest School May 2025 Day 1
The children in Class 1 had a fantastic time at forest schools. They were taught how to stay safe in the woodlands and spot potential hazards. They also looked at staying within certain boundaries. The children were then given time to explore the woodlands and use...
‘Athletics’ May 2025
The children in Class 9 have been exploring athletics in their outdoor PE sessions throughout this half term. As you can see in the photos, the children have been enjoying developing skills in different areas of athletics. Today the children were based at...
VE Day 8 May 2025
To celebrate VE day, the children in Year 1 and Year 2 had a wonderful and educational afternoon participating in activities reflective of those which took place on May 8th 1945 - the first VE day to celebrate the ending of WW2. The children enjoyed their informative...