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Newby Wiske 2025

Newby Wiske 2025

What a fantastic time our Year 6s had on the residential at Newby Wiske this year! We are grateful to PGL and Mrs Gerry for working so hard to come to our rescue when Kingswood unfortunately closed down and thankfully our new residential location, Newby Wiske, turned...

Art Bytes 2025 Winners!

Art Bytes 2025 Winners!

The Art Bytes winners were finally announced and a massive congratulations to Ava (1st Place), Reuben (2nd) and Georgia (3rd) place. Well done to all the contestants who were entered into the competition. The judges and I were very impressed with the standard of art...

Doubling Wings and Growing Things in the Reception Classes

Doubling Wings and Growing Things in the Reception Classes

The children in Reception have been thoroughly engaged in a cross-curricular exploration of symmetry, doubling, and the life cycle of a butterfly. The children used paint to create beautiful symmetrical butterflies. In maths, they used butterfly templates and pom poms...

Baby visitor in Nursery!

Baby visitor in Nursery!

We enjoyed having a visitor in nursery on Monday. Miss Clough's great-nephew visited us to help us learn more about babies. He was supposed to visit during our baby animals/mammals topic but was unwell unfortunately. We thoroughly enjoyed having him in nursery and...

Nissan In A Box!

Nissan In A Box!

What a great time we had on the 'Nissan-In-A-Box' project! The children of Lower Key Stage 2 learned about Japanese culture, read books, tried origami and even built toy cars to replicate the Nissan production line. It was great to see the children learn so much about...

Science Week in Reception

Science Week in Reception

We have had a great time being scientists this week. We all experienced going inside of a dome which was situated in our school hall. The dome had a projector inside and showed projected stars and constellations, planets and astronauts on the moon. We were so excited...

Reception Classes go on a Snail Hunt

Reception Classes go on a Snail Hunt

This week, our Reception children have been busy discovering the wonderful world of snails! They had great fun going on a snail hunt around the school, spotting where these little creatures like to hide. Back in class, they learned all about the snail’s life cycle,...

Science Week in Nursery

Science Week in Nursery

We have had a great time being scientists this week. We all experienced going inside of a dome which was situated in our school hall. The dome had a projector inside and showed projected stars and constellations, planets and astronauts on the moon. We also took part...

KS1 Science Week

KS1 Science Week

This week has been Science Week and KS1 have loved all of the activities. We have been chemists and physicists; exploring how different chemicals react and making predictions. The children took part in a hands on experiment using acids, alkalis and indicators. Using...

Good Samaritans in KS1

Good Samaritans in KS1

We were delighted to welcome Lynn and Ken from St Albans Church to our school this week. They spent time with the children, helping them explore what it means to be a Christian in today’s world. Through engaging discussions and interactive activities, Lynn and Ken...

Computer Networks in UKS2

Computer Networks in UKS2

This half term in computing, Elms, Oaks and Beeches are learning about communication and collaboration between computers. This week’s lesson focussed on how data is transferred between computers. We learnt how the data is split into packets and transferred across...

Five Little Sunflowers!

Five Little Sunflowers!

We have continued to explore our beach treasure this week. We finished drawing some beach treasure of our choice which has been made into a beautiful display in nursery. We completed beach themed pictures and games on the interactive white board and continued to share...