Finding 50% in Mrs Angus’ numeracy group
Today we used numicon to help us find 10% and 50% of numbers.
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Bird watching club
After a chilly walk around school where we saw magpies, crows and wood pigeons we went back into the warmth to make bird feeders. We got very messy but we […]
Eden camp – COMING SOON
Mrs Graham’s Literacy Group are currently in the process of writing their own post about our visit to Eden Camp. This will be going LIVE on Friday 6th March!
Equivalent Dominoes!
On Tuesday 24th February, Mrs Greenwood’s numeracy class, had to find equivalent amounts from fractions, decimals and percentages. They did this by having a little bit of fun playing an […]
Children’s Author Peter J Murray Visits HJS!
Wednesday 25th February 2015 Today all the school were treated to a very special assembly with a visit from local author Peter J Murray. He is the author of the […]
Enterprise Competition Y4/5G
Here are the winners from the cake and cupcake competition. Jessica, Polly and Isabelle did a fabulous job of organising such a wonderful competition. As you can see from the […]
PE in Y4/5G
This half term we were lucky enough to have Mr Richardson delivering our Physical Education sessions in Dance. We really enjoyed working as individuals and as a whole class. Learning […]
Newsletter 13th February 2015
Multicultural Week Last week Herringthorpe Juniors collaborated with Roughwood and Greasbrough Primary schools to celebrate multicultural week. The children took part in African, Spanish and Bollywood dancing, made African animals […]
Aamina’s Praise Pod
Aamina visited Praise Pod this week as she has been trying really hard with her Numeracy! Miss Brewin, Aamina’s teacher, says she has really understood the concept of multiplication. Well […]
Cave art in year 3!
After some skill based preparation in our sketch books we moved on to creating our very own versions of cave art! First we began by using pastel to imitate the […]
Multicultural Video!
Here is a video of just some of the activities that were happening during our Multicultural week! For lots more information and to see the joint collaboration with Roughwood and […]
Polly, Jessica & Isabelle’s Praise Pod
Wednesday 4th February 2015 What a wonderful Praise Pod we had today! Three lovely, happy smiles all at once! Jessica, Polly and Isabelle visited our Praise Pod for their amazing […]
Year 5 Multicultural Week celebration.
To celebrate our learning about Kenya, South Africa and Zambia Year 5 performed African song and dance at the Multicultural Week Celebration Assembly.
South Africa animal construction is underway!
After researching some animals in South Africa, we began to construct our favourite onto a mask. We used poster paint, paper mâché, paper plates and plastic cups to capture the […]
Multicultural Week with Y5S- Let the drumming begin!
We started our week with a fantastic African drumming lesson! As our country was South Africa, this was a perfect way to begin our week and get us right in […]
Writing instructions
Linking literacy and enterprise in Year 5, we have made these London Souvenirs, as fridge magnets to sell for Enterprise London. In literacy lessons we then wrote the instructions of how […]
African Drumming Workshop!
Monday 2nd February 2015 As part of our Multicultural week, our children were lucky enough to experience the art of African Drumming! The children were taught the basic beats and […]
Multicultural Week
Check out our Multicultural Week blog just click here.
Learning about our skeleton
We have been busy learning about our skeletons an creating moving models for our animations. We have been using Google Drive to research and write about what we have learnt.