--- title: "Blog" url: "https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog" school: "Yarm Primary Academy" --- # Blog [![Image of Welcome Back Year 5!](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_0335%5B1%5D.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-03-10-10-21-43-welcome-back-year-5) 10 March 2021 #### [Welcome Back Year 5!](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-03-10-10-21-43-welcome-back-year-5) What a great return to school for our Year 5 children who have been learning at home these past months! It is wonderful to see you all again and how you're already hard at work and enjoying being back with your friends. We're positive that the remaining weeks of this half term will be full of lots… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-03-10-10-21-43-welcome-back-year-5) [![Image of Learning about fish](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7522.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-03-01-19-16-10-learning-about-fish) 1 March 2021 #### [Learning about fish](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-03-01-19-16-10-learning-about-fish) Nursery have been learning all about fish today! We had a real fish (bought from the fish mongers!) for the children to explore. They were able to touch it and feel its scales, spot its fins and gills and look closely at its mouth to see if it had any teeth! They looked through magnifying… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-03-01-19-16-10-learning-about-fish) [![Image of A Snow Day](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7422.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-02-08-20-31-10-a-snow-day) 8 February 2021 #### [A Snow Day](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-02-08-20-31-10-a-snow-day) Nursery enjoyed a 'snow day' today, making foot prints, snow balls, snow castles and they even tried to build a snowman! They had lots of fun exploring how snow felt and they even tried to catch a few flakes on their tongue! Back inside after they had warmed up we learnt all about Chinese… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-02-08-20-31-10-a-snow-day) 1 February 2021 #### [Exploring frost and ice](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-02-01-19-34-54-exploring-frost-and-ice) As we welcomed our Nursery children back this week, the weather was just right for our planned activities!! We learned how frost was formed and looked at pictures of the pretty patterns it makes! We were able to go outside on the grass and explore the frost for ourselves! The children thought… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-02-01-19-34-54-exploring-frost-and-ice) [![Image of Exploring ice and animals](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7295.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-01-11-17-45-24-exploring-ice-and-animals) 11 January 2021 #### [Exploring ice and animals](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-01-11-17-45-24-exploring-ice-and-animals) At the end of last week we took advantage of the cold, snowy and icy weather. We carried out an experiment to see what would happen if we left a tray of water outside overnight. The children were surprised the next morning when the water has disappeared and ice was in it's place! The children… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-01-11-17-45-24-exploring-ice-and-animals) [![Image of Ice Adventures](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7240.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-01-04-19-17-08-ice-adventures) 4 January 2021 #### [Ice Adventures](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-01-04-19-17-08-ice-adventures) Happy new year to you all and welcome back to term 2! This term the children are learning about the polar regions and the animals which live there. They started off by going on an Arctic Adventure with Peter the Polar Bear and got dressed up in winter woolies to keep warm! Peter Polar Bear told… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2021-01-04-19-17-08-ice-adventures) [![Image of We’ve Climbed Much Higher!](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/C517BB10-0C35-4846-862F-8496274D1E4E.jpeg)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-12-13-57-34-we-ve-climbed-much-higher) 12 December 2020 #### [We’ve Climbed Much Higher!](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-12-13-57-34-we-ve-climbed-much-higher) Over the last half term, the children have began to really capture this half term’s enquiry question. We have truly climbed higher, developed skills and improved our behaviours for learning. Tweek we are learning all about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s outstanding achievement. We… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-12-13-57-34-we-ve-climbed-much-higher) [![Image of Tudor Roses](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_0394.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-10-16-35-13-tudor-roses) 10 December 2020 #### [Tudor Roses](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-10-16-35-13-tudor-roses) As part of their Tudors topic, Year 5 have been cross stitching their own very Tudor roses. They have needed to show excellent attention to detail when following the cross stitch pattern as well as patience and resilience when threading the needle and when things have not quite gone to… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-10-16-35-13-tudor-roses) [![Image of Christmas has arrived in Nursery!](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7022.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-09-09-57-40-christmas-has-arrived-in-nursery) 9 December 2020 #### [Christmas has arrived in Nursery!](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-09-09-57-40-christmas-has-arrived-in-nursery) The children have been learning all about Christmas and why it is celebrated! They have been having fun in our new role play area where they have been dressing up and acting out the Nativity story. They have also been busy wrapping presents and pretending it is Christmas Eve, going to 'sleep' in… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-12-09-09-57-40-christmas-has-arrived-in-nursery) [![Image of Developing Writing!](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/76FBF0A0-E224-4163-A830-89D3B20D02E2.jpeg)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-11-30-20-27-44-developing-writing) 30 November 2020 #### [Developing Writing!](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-11-30-20-27-44-developing-writing) In Year 4, we’ve writing and want to develop confident and skilled writers. After learning the features of newspaper reports and investigating all about Otzi the Iceman, we wrote our own newspaper reports. We will then edit and improve these using our success criteria! well done Year 4… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-11-30-20-27-44-developing-writing) [![Image of Investigating Air Resistance](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/gallery/air-resistance/IMG_1794.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-11-26-20-52-30-investigating-air-resistance) 26 November 2020 #### [Investigating Air Resistance](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-11-26-20-52-30-investigating-air-resistance) The aim of this week's Year 5 Science lesson was not how fast can an object fall fall but how slow... Why? Because we were studying air resistance and how it can be useful in situations such as slowing down the fall of a parachutist. The children looked at the effects of air resistance on… [Continue reading](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-11-26-20-52-30-investigating-air-resistance) [![Image of A combination of seasons](https://files.schudio.com/yarm-primary-school-2/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_6935_-_Copy_-_Copy_-_Copy_-_Copy_(2)_-_Copy_-_Copy.JPG)](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-11-24-19-16-38-a-combination-of-seasons) 24 November 2020 #### [A combination of seasons](https://yarmprimaryschool.net/blog/2020-11-24-19-16-38-a-combination-of-seasons) Nursery have been having fun creating these gorgeous pictures with natural materials which represent the 4 seasons. They used objects such as flowers to represent summer, green leaves to represent spring, acorns, conkers, yellow/orange leaves to represent autumn and twigs for winter. 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