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On Wednesday, Eric, from St John’s Ambulance, came into school to work with us.

He delivered an engaging sessions all around ‘Student First Aid’.

We learnt about bleeding and bruising, primary survey, communication and casualty care and severe bleeding and the recovery position.

The…

To launch Friendship week, we all came to school wearing odd socks. This year’s theme is ‘Respect’. We thought about and discussed what we thought the term respect means and how we could show it.

‘It’s ok to be different.’

‘We are all unique.’

‘Everybody can have different views and…

After a couple of weeks off, we have a lot of work to do this week!

Please let us know if there is a problem.

Year 6 Team

Nursery visited Yarm Fire Station today and had lots of fun!  The children met the firefighters who showed us around the fire station and talked to us about what they do in their job.  They showed us different equipment and demonstrated the uniform, boots and helmet which they wear.  The children…

This week we have been learning about mixtures and the best way to separate them. In our science lesson we explored different mixtures. We had five mixtures to explore. These were:

Sand and pasta

Water and sand

Gravel and paper clips

Rice and flour

Pasta and rice.

As a team we…

Firstly, we would love to say welcome back to school and what a first week back it has been!

We’ve had awesome art, super science, wonderful writing, and masterful maths.

The children have really made us so proud this week and it is onwards and upwards from here.

The Year 4 Team

We’ve had a very busy week starting our new topic of pirates. The book we have started looking at is Pirate Pete and we are following him on his journey across the seven seas to try and find the treasure.

How did pirates navigate the seas?

Are all pirates men?

Are all pirates bad?

This week we have started looking at sculptures around the UK.  We looked at a range of sculptures from our local area and had a go at making our own human sculptures. See what sculptures you can find in your local area. What are they made from?

This week we were introduced to Guy Fawkes and discovered why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We used different media to create fabulous firework pictures and thought of sound words to go with them. We made firework patterns with jewels, ribbon and sequins to develop our fine motor skills.

We…

Year 3 enjoyed an educational visit to Guisborough woods this week. They learned about identifying different trees and also about the uses of some of the trees. The children had the opportunity to saw some trees and use flint and to start a fire for their hot chocolates.

I hope you’re half term went well and you’re ready to get back to school…

Here are some clues about what you might be learning about in the next few days…

See you soon.

Mrs W.

We hope you have a fantastic half term break after eight weeks of hard work.

We will see you all back on Monday 5th November. Our topic for the following half term will be ‘The Vikings’!

Year 4 Team