Desert island survival inY6W
Today we have been designing water filters in our STEM lesson. We have experimented with different combinations of materials to create the most effective filter. Bear Grylls would be impressed!!
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Willow Tree Film Festival
Last week, children, parents and teachers, from all four schools in our academy, came together for one very special event … Our first ever, Willow Tree Film Festival! And what […]
End of Year Awards
What an amazing celebration we have just had! Today’s assembly focused on celebrating how wonderful our pupils are here at Herringthorpe. All teachers presented their end of year awards for […]
Multiplication treasure hunt
This morning, Y3T went on a treasure hunt to answer their multiplication challenges. We had to show Miss Towell an array to calculate our number sentences.
Exploring our senses in Y3J
The Year 3’s have had a fun morning exploring their senses in the outdoor quiet area. They used their 5 senses to see what they could hear, see, taste, feel […]
We can animate in Y3T
What an exciting way to showcase our learning. Based on our class book – Fox – we created our own foxes and mazes. We then used animation on the iPads […]
Prepositions in Y3S
Today in Y3S – our new Y3 children began to understand what a preposition is and what we use it for in our writing The children used lots of teamwork […]
Y3 teaching the teachers
Today in Y3T, the new Y3 children were teaching Miss Towell and Miss Bennett everything they knew about addition. We had to use our mental and written strategies carefully to […]
Sports Day 2017
Yet another amazing achievement for all of our children! Miss Tyzack and Mr Jenkinson planned another fabulous sports day and we were lucky enough for a sunny day to compete […]
Angles and Turns in Y3S
Yesterday in Y3S we focused on recognising angles as a description of a turn. The children have worked collaboratively to create a maze, measure angles and find the angles in […]
Shakespeare 2017
Well what an absolutely amazing day! The Year 3 children have worked tirelessly over the last few months to understand Shakespeare, learn their lines and rehearse their performances for this […]
One Voice 2017
Yesterday the children took part in the annual singing concert at Manga. They sang a range of music, songs that dated back to the 1960s all the way up to […]
Star Constellations Y5G/D
This week in topic lessons, Y5G/D have been learning all about star constellations. The children learnt that a constellation is a group or pattern of stars. Also that stars are […]
Drama in Y5G/D
This week during literacy, the children in Y5G/D have been taking part in drama to support their newspaper writing about the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The children have taken it in turns […]
Wordsworth are the Winners!
What a fabulous day the hard working children in Wordsworth house have had at Graves Park Farm. We visited the animals, spent time on the playground, had our picnic then […]
Year 6 Leavers 2017
This afternoon, we came together for a wonderful assembly, to celebrate the achievements of this year’s Year 6 children. They opened with an amazing ‘Through the Decades’ Talent Show, with […]
We love Grimm and Co!
Today Y4G visited Grimm and Co and we loved it! We created some fantastic stories all about a character named Bob. We can’t wait to read each other’s ending…
Sharing Home Learning in Y3S
Last week in Y3S, we came together as a class to share our wonderful home learning outcomes. The children discussed how they had created their master pieces which included volcanoes, […]
Angles in the stars
This week in Y5 we’ve been identifying and creating some of the most famous star constellations using angles to help us. By looking at the types of angles and using […]
