RotherVision 2014

This morning, 8 children from Herringthorpe and 8 children from Greasbrough came together to compete in this year’s RotherVision Song Contest! All of the children performed brilliantly and should be extremely […]

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Global Celebrations

Here are the amazing Y5 drummers, playing at New York Stadium in today’s Global Celebration event. All of the children played brilliantly and represented our school very well. Well done […]

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5G Enterprise Maths

This week in Numeracy, Mrs Graham’s Maths group have planned, carried out and evaluated an enterprise fundraising project of their own, to raise money for Enterprise London. The children planned […]

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Cyber bullying and internet safety

PC Marriott has been in school this week visiting years 5 and 6 discussing cyber bullying and staying safe online. The children learned how risks online can be dealt with […]

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World Book Day Characters!

Friday the 7th of March 2014 was a day of colourful celebrations! This year, all the children were given the task of dressing up as a character from their topic […]

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Y5 Victorian Morning

Friday 13th December 1858 This morning Year 5 went back in time to experience life in a Victorian schoolroom! Their formally kind and caring teachers were transformed into strict, cane […]

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Y5G Home Learning

Last weekend for homework children were asked to write a non-chronological report, explaining life in Victorian schools. Here are just a few of the fantastic outcomes… I am so proud […]

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Y5G Imaginary Communities – Our Victorian School

This week in Literacy we have been exploring what life was like in Victorian schools by taking our school back in time! First we imagined and discussed what our school might have looked […]

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Herringthorpe Radio Broadcast Y5 & Y6

On Monday 2nd of December 2013 we welcomed Reach LIVE into our school for four fun-filled exciting days. Reach Live are a company that delivers exciting radio workshops, based around key […]

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Y5G – The Victorian Schoolroom

For this week’s P4C enquiry, Y5G discussed this visual stimulus, based on our topic – The Victorians … After some thinking time, we decided on our discussion question – Is […]

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Literacy Learning

This week in Literacy, we have been learning all about life in a Victorian schoolroom, through research and drama. First, we used iPads and library books to find lots of information […]

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Practical Problem Solving

In Numeracy this week, Year 5 have been problem solving in more practical ways, linked to our theme of money. Take a look at how much fun we’ve been having working together to […]

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Y5G Philosophy

For our latest P4C enquiry, we looked at this stimulus – How to Live Forever. The children chose the question for discussion – Should anyone be able to live forever? […]

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Eyam (The Plague Village)

Wednesday the 23rd of October 2013 was the day our Year 4’s and some of our Y5’s visited the historical village of Eyam in Derbyshire. This educational trip was organised […]

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Millennium Galleries Visit

On the 7th May, Year 5 visited The Millennium Galleries as part of their Ignite Design project to celebrate ‘Come Rain or Shine’. This was the culmination of weeks of […]

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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 […]

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