Handa’s Surprise fruit taste test!
Today in Y4H we had a taste testing! As a part of our numeracy learning we tested 7 fruits that we found in our book Handa’s Surprise: Banana Guava Orange […]
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Taste Testing Numeracy in Y4K
Today in numeracy we have stared to learn about data handling. To do this we embarked on a taste testing mission of fruits linked to Africa. The children really embraced […]
Fruity Flavours in Y4C
Today in Numeracy, Y4C were tasting some delicious, mouth-watering fruits! Linked with our Literacy learning based around the fabulous book, Handa’s Surprise Y4C tasted all of the seven fruits in […]
Newsletter 27th November 2015
World Falconry Day Monday 16th November, 2015 was World Falconry Day. In order to celebrate the wonderful birds of prey that can be found around the world the Year 3 […]
Y6 Video Conference with France!
What a fabulous treat we had in Year 6 this morning! We were able to connect with a very special friend of Herringthorpe, in France! Lucy from Y6G set the […]
Sam’s Praise Pod
Today Sam was extremely nervous when I collected him from class this afternoon. Sam could not think why he was coming out of class today but after a little chat […]
Learning about India in Year 3!
As part of our Christmas performance, Christmas around the world, we have been looking at different countries and their celebrations! Year 3 have been learning all about India and have […]
Drumming in Year 4
This morning as part of our drumming music sessions the children have had great fun learning about base and tone. Competing in groups to play different base and tone rhythms! […]
Y6G’s Ratio Juice Test!
What a fabulous Maths lesson we had today in Y6G! We’ve been learning all about ratio this week, so we decided to investigate the effect this might have on our favourite […]
Y5G PSHE
During PSHE with Miss Reed the children have been looking at a range of bullying scenarios and investigating why children bully other children. Here are Y5G in action creating some […]
Abba Concert
On the 9th of December we would like to invite you into school at 5pm to enjoy the Y5 Abba concert. As part of our music curriculum and the children’s […]
Science In Y5A
This week things have been very muddled in Y5A. We have been busy separating lots of different materials by identifying the correct method to separate them. This included using magnetism […]
Sewing and Clay Display
We finally completed our art project for this half term. We have created some Rockpool scenes using clay and fabrics.
So why do things float?
In year 6, as part of our learning about the Titanic, we looked at how objects float. Obviously we knew that some materials were better at floating, but what about metal? […]
Y6 Matchstick Maths!
We just LOVE investigating in Mrs Graham’s Maths Group – today we’ve been investigating patterns and sequences as part of our algebra learning! Take a look and see if you can […]
P4C in Y5G Wings
On Thursday the 20th of November Herringthorpe Junior school took part in a P4C session on World Philosophy Day based on the short film Wings – please watch below – […]
Friendship Web in Y4C and Y4K
As part of Friendship Week, Y4C and Y4K completed an activity where we discovered and learnt about different things we have in common with one another. There were lots of […]
World Philosophy Day 2015
Today is World Philosophy Day and all classes have been developing their critical thinking and reasoning skills with a very interesting clip called Wings. Common themes were around friendship and […]
Oracy Y5G
In year 5 the children have been part of the Oracy project working towards developing their performance skills through hand gesture, facial expression and intonation. Here they are –