HJS Harvest Collection
We may not have been able to do our usual Harvest Collection but that hasn’t dampened our generous Herringthorpe spirit. Thank you to those of you who were able to […]
Category Archives: Social Innovation
Nemesis co-creation Y5
Today Y5 used their big question: Are we alone in the universe? We unpicked alternative meanings for this and used the global goals to recognise a problem in our community- […]
Y5 NEMESIS Project
We had a great time this morning on our NEMESIS zoom meeting finding out more information on being involved in the ‘Coronavirus Chronicles’ research project. We can’t wait to get […]
Y4 Nemesis – Message in a frame
Year 6 Co-creation lab
Today some of our Y6s were part of a NEMESIS co-creation lab. We were joined by some parents and the area manager of the British Heart Foundation to discuss ways […]
Zoom call in Y3
This afternoon Y3F took part in our first Zoom call. It was lovely to see all the happy smiling faces. We discussed our nemesis project and came up with some […]
Y5 NEMESIS exercise video
In year 5 the children have been working hard to research and plan exercisers for the elderly. Last week they sent their videos in and they are fantastic, well done […]
Y5 NEMESIS Project
Today, Y5 have created posters and flyers to advertise their low impact fitness DVDs that they will be filming this week. The aim of our project is to support our […]
Happy Easter
After receiving a delicious egg from a thoughtful community member, today we have wrote some thank you cards to show our appreciation. We tried to make them bright and colourful […]
Social Innovation, whilst social distancing: Postcards
This week, all of our amazing children have been working so hard at both school and home, to support our local community. We sent postcards to a local residence for […]
Y3 Nemesis – helping wildlife from our recent storm
This week in Y3 we are containing to develop our Nemesis project. We have created bird feeders to help feed the birds, we considered that many birds had lost their […]
Christmas Choir at the Hospice and Bakersfield Court
As we do every year, the Christmas choir walked to the Hospice and Bakersfield Court to bring some Christmas spirit into their hearts by singing some traditional carols and some […]
Y3 Nemesis: Designing our bird houses
This afternoon Y3 are working very hard to design their bird houses for our local park. We linked this to numeracy – using the grid method to calculate the area […]
Y3 NEMESIS: Writing to the manager
Y3 have published their letters to persuade the manager of Clifton Park to let us put up some bird houses. We really want to solve the issue of helping animals […]
Nemesis project in Y3J
This morning we looked at some of the issues happening right now with deforestation. We discussed the positives and the negatives. We also recognised that animals in our local area […]
Ava and Lily’s Praise Pod
Today we had two very excited girl’s come to visit us, they were extremely proud to find out they had been nominated by there class teachers. For showcasing year 4’s […]
Year 6 Nemesis tour guides
Today we have had a fabulous group of year 6’s come and visit us. They were extremely happy and excited as it was there last chance to visit the Praise […]
Social Innovation Club
Over the last two weeks we have been working together to complete an application to the council about how to make our community around school safer. The children discussed the […]
Willow Tree school council
All four school councils met on Hangouts today to discuss what the end of year house treat should be. There was much discussion and debating during the meeting and eventually […]