Year 4 French Breakfast – Friday 7th June 2013
This week in Literacy, Y4G have been writing letters to persuade parents to join us for our French Breakfast Morning, which will be taking place after Half Term. Here are […]
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The Grand Opening of our New Bike Shelter
On Tuesday 27th November we had the grand opening of our new bike shelters. The whole school gathered whilst Mrs Fearnley, Natalie Whelan (or Bike It Officer) and our Bike […]
Bike It breakfast and Dr Bike surgery
We have had two very successful Bike It breakfasts and Dr Bike surgery’s. Children who cycled to school on those days had a lovely breakfast of yoghurt, fruit, croissants and juice. During […]
Puncture repair workshop
Our Bike It crew took part in a puncture repair workshop. They are now able to find punctures and repair them. So, if you ever have a puncture you know […]
BIKE IT
We have been selected by Sustrans to be a Bike It school. The aim of this project is to encourage children and parents to cycle to school at least once […]
Meet our Bike It crew
The Bike It crew regularly meet to discuss Bike It news, organise competitions and arrange event days. They do a weekly bike count which is entered into the Bike It […]
Young Entrepreneurs at Herringthorpe
As a school we recognise and pride ourselves in identifying children who are gifted and talented in various areas of the curriculum. In Year 4 we have a group of […]
The Woodles
The Woodles An exciting project to improve writing through the use of animation. A group of talented authors were put together to create stories for younger children based on woodland […]
WWII Music Hall
Year 6 have been enjoying some popular songs from the war. We have learnt ‘Kiss me Goodnight Sergeant Major’ and ‘Quarter Master’s Store’ to name just a few. We also […]
Observational drawing
Mr Taylor has been helping us develop our observational drawing. This week we observed real life models and considered scale whilst sketching. Were are very proud of our outcomes.
Story settings
We used the images of Paddington Station from ‘Carrie’s War’ to write our story settings. All along the crowded platform parents and children were miserably crying as they were being […]
Character sketches from ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’
In Literacy this term we have enjoyed using ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ as a stimulus for our writing. Below are a couple of our descriptions of the main characters. William Beech […]
Jorvik
Y4 visit to Jorvik – Friday 1st March The year 4’s had a fabulous day out stepping back in time to the Viking age exploring and discovering their way […]
Gas masks in pencil and ink
Our focus in art has been tone. We used 2B sketching pencils and pen and ink to produce observational drawing of WWII gas masks.
Circuits
We have been interpreting circuit diagrams in our science.
Dig for Victory!
We have been busy drawing up plans for a WWII victory garden which we will help build in our school grounds. Our garden will include an air raid shelter, a […]
Visit to the Sheffield Fire Museum
In February, Year 5 visited Sheffield Fire Museum as part of their learning about the Great Fire of London. We investigated old and modern ways of putting out fires and […]
Newsletter 15th February 2013
Young Voices The Young Voices concert took place at the Motorpoint Area, Sheffield earlier this month. The event was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone and a big thank you and well […]
Newsletter 1st February 2013
On Tuesday, 29th January Mrs. Fearnley, Mrs. Taylor, Holly H and Maddison O went to York to collect the Arts Mark Gold Award for the third time on behalf of […]