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Dear Parents and Carers, Half Term Update Sports News: Y5/6 took part in the cluster football festival which was held at Tideswell in September. They had a fabulous time and the girls team came back with a trophy after a thrilling match against Longstone. 44 children (Y1 – Y6 children) took part in the cluster…

Autumn in Reception! Outdoor fun! Making snakes!  

We have had a fantastic last few weeks in Year 1 and 2. In Year 1 the children have written their own versions of Hickory Dickory Dock for assessed writing. Year 2 children wrote their own stories based on the book ‘Wanted! Have you seen this Alligator?’ We have completed some work based on the…

We have been very busy over the last few weeks. Our creativity work has been focused on zoos and we have written zoo keeper instructions and fables about animals. In the afternoons we have made our own animal enclosures, created posters for the animals and found out where they live on a world map. We…

Dear Parents and Carers, A very warm welcome to all the new children that have joined us in school this week. We are delighted to welcome them to our school and hope they will be very happy. Also, a warm welcome back to all returning children. The staff and I would also like to thank…

This week we have been continuing our ‘Paws, Claws and Whiskers’ theme and the children have completed some brilliant work. In Year 1 we have read the book ‘Dear Zoo’ and have thought about what our perfect pet would be like. We made our own lift the flap pages in our big exercise books. In maths…

This week in Year 1  our story has been the Tiger who Came to Tea. We have looked at a tiger fact book and then written our own captions. In the afternoons Years 1 and 2 have been sorting and classifiying different animals by their appearance. We worked hard at lots of different activity stations to sort…

A huge well done to Year 1 who have worked their socks off this week. It is such a big change moving up from Reception and the children are adapting well. This week we have enjoyed reading ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’ and have written our own shopping lists. We imagined the tiger came…

Thanks for coming to YR this morning and finding out what your children have been doing for the first two weeks! We really enjoyed having you! Here are some photos from our first two weeks.