Y5 Play Leader Training
Today we have Peter Ward for Wakefield Health Schools in to train our Y5 pupils in becoming play leaders. This will be run over 2 half day sessions. Peter has chosen William Jackson from Y5 to run this short session - William siad it was quite scary to lead this! Look on the news feed for more…
Category: Headteacher
Charlie Trueman
Congratulations to Y6 Pupil Charlie Trueman who has been awarded the Royal School of Church Music Gold medal. Charlie is one of the youngest boys in the country to be awarded this medal and the only one in the North of England this year. Charlie had to study five pieces of music, sing three…
Category: Headteacher
Year One letter writing.
In the spring term we were set a challenge to write a letter to someone who was important or special to us. We thought long and hard and eventually cam up with some great ideas. Some people wrote to people in their families, our headteacher, some wrote to famous people, others wrote to sports…
Category: Year 2
An awesome day at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park!
To follow on from our learning about animals, we had a fabulous day at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park yesterday.
We had lots of fun and saw some amazing animals. We even heard the lions roar. It was so loud! The giraffes came out to eat and the tigers were strolling around for us to see. The…
Category: Year 2
Phonic screening workshop for parents
Every week we have a parent afternoon to help prepare the children for the Year 1 phonics screening in June.
Thank you to all the parents and grand parents for all your support.
Category: Year 2
Year 2 Computing
Check out Year 2's brilliant binary codes from their computing session. We chose questions to ask eachother and chose a yes/no or true/false response to offer. Sadly these photos are not interactive but the children loved quizzing each other on their options! Well done Year…
Category: Year 3
Our trip to Nostell Priory
We went on a trip to our local National Trust property of Nostell Priory. We carried on our learning about plants and growing.
There was lots of exciting learning opportunities for us. We explored the gardens where we could taste herbs and some vegetables. There was a treasure hunt to find all…
Category: Year 2
Super Sports at Minsthorpe High School
We were invited to a multi skills competition against other year one classes in our school pyramid. Our behaviour was impeccable and we were truesportsmen. We tried our best, but most of all we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!
Category: Year 2
Crime Scene Investigation day!
We had an amazing day trying to solve the case of the 'Sugar Snatcher'. Our grown ups came to help us. We worked in teams, listened to our friends, cooperated, took turns and tried to solve problems. We even presented our findings to the whole school. We had a fantastic day and we also solved the…
Category: Year 2
Google Expeditions
In year 3 and year 4 we had google Expeditions come into school and we used their VR equipment! We had an amazing time!
Category: Year 5
Google Expeditions
In year 3 and year 4 we had google Expeditions come into school and we used their VR equipment! We had an amazing time!
Category: Year 4
World book day in Year One
We had a wonderful time in Year One on World book day. Everyone came to school dressed as their favourite book character or in their PJs ready for a bedtime story. We enjoyed listening to stories 'around the fire' and drank delicious hot chocolate!
Category: Year 2