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For the 3rd Year running the Year 4 classes have constructed musical instruments known as lyres. These were popular in the days of the Anglo Saxons and often accompanied story telling. This time we’ve recorded the instruments and put them onto a video which you can access on our very own YP Nation…

Yesterday, the school hall transformed into a bustling fairground space.

The rides looked amazing, with programmed movements, incredible designs and wonderful stories. Each group did themselves proud and were able to discuss with parents what had happened during the process and how their ride…

Our inspiration for this years BIG  Draw was the artist Rose Wylie – who really likes to have fun with scale and colour.

Well done to everyone who contributed by adding great marks to their year group pieces.

Mrs W.

This week reception has be reading the book ‘Peace at last’. They have been learning about night and day and discussing how we will see and hear different things depending on the time. Reception have also been designing and creating their own musical instruments. In math children have been…

This week Year 2 have been making an animation using I can animate software.

They worked in small groups to create the props and film a scene. Each animation shows the key events from The Great Fire of London.

Ask our history detectives all about what happened in 1666.

Today, Year 4 enjoyed a celebration assembly of their hard work in constructing Anglo-Saxon lyres as a homework task for Mr Newton. The range  of different shapes and construction methods was vast, from blocks of wood to lego and pie tins. However, all were able t make a really interesting sound…

Where has the time gone?!

It seems like only two minutes ago that we were all just beginning our new learning journey together.

We have crammed so much into the past eight weeks!

We have learnt about volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis through our topic work, discovered how rocks and soil…

This week the children have been continuing their learning about Autumn.  They have had the opportunity to explore pumpkins and find out what is inside.  They found lots of seeds and they  had fun using spoons and tweezers to pick the seeds up and put them into bowls.  A couple of weeks ago the…

This is just a selection of the fantastic homework we have seen this half term. Well done Year 2, you’ve produced some great homework with lots of different facts about our body!

Year 4 have started learning how to play the recorder. Mr Hadfield taught us about  the different lengths of note and how to recognise rests. If you hear wonderful sounds floating along the corridor, it must be Year 4.

To help consolidate our learning from this week, please have a go at the following pages!

Remember, if you get stuck, come and see us before Friday.

Mr H and Mr W

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…