Blog Author: anna

As we are all aware, Yarm Fair rolled into town this week, perfectly timed for our Fairground Project.

On Wednesday morning, Y6 walked into the High Street to have a look at the rides that had turned up this year. There was some disappointment that a couple of the favourites hadn’t arrived this…

As part of our Big Draw project this year we have been looking at the work of Rose Wylie. We have recreated one of her pieces by drawing around some of the children in our year group and using different pen marks to colour them.

This week we have been thinking about Autumn so we went on a walk to explore the changes that happen at this time of year.

We learned a song called ‘Autumn leaves are falling down’ to the tune of ‘London Bridge is falling down’. Why don’t you see if your child can remember it? We also used…

Some of our pupils worked with Miss Gill ( sponsored by the Yarm 1914 committee ) to make some beautiful dove models.

These will be used as lights at this years commemmorations on Remembrance Sunday next month at the war memorial.

Children were engrossed and produced some wonderful models –…

This week we are designing and creating rockets and blasting off to the moon. The children will be acting out the story using props, writing a list of items to take with them and creating a night time picture.

In Maths we are using the words more, less and fewer to compare numbers.

We are…

We were invited by our local MP Dr Williams to enter his Christmas card competition.

What brilliant contributions everyone made ( which we’ll get the chance to see in school in December) and Congratulations to the children whose cards will be posted off tomorrow for consideration.

Good Luck…

This week reception went on a bear hunt around the school on the search for our very own bear. Before the hunt we came up with a list of things we would need to take with us. We went through the long wavy grass, thick oozy mud, swirling snowstorm and dark gloomy cave.

We used our senses on the…

This week the children have had fun entering a sausage competition ran by Freemans catering company, where the winner will have their own sausage made!

The children enjoyed tasting different types of sausages and talked about which one they preferred. The children designed their own sausage and…

You have been learning a lot about the Romans and what they brought to Britain.

We would like you to find out:

What did they design and build? There are a few examples below, but can you find any others? What purpose did it have? How did it work? Is there any evidence of these designs still…

The lessons we have been working hard in this week have really challenged the thinking of the children. Having said that, the behaviours for learning they have displayed throughout even the most challenging of tasks has really impressed us.

Our homework this week will help secure these…

We are very impressed with the quality of homework that our classes have produced this term. Such a lot of time has been taken to create Anglo-Saxon helmets, carved runes and much lyres. Well  done, everyone.

On Monday, the whole school took part in a sausage competition that is running throughout the North East. Year 5 tasted a selection of sausages then thought about what their ideal sausage would be? The children created interesting and wonderful sausage recipes. Here are just a few of their ideas.…