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British Science Week Key Stage 2
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This week, the children have had two very busy afternoons for British Science Week. Here are some pictures of the children in Key Stage Two trying different experiments.
National Careers Week 2024
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8th March 2024
This week has been national careers week and we have had lots of different adults come and visit us to tell us about their jobs.
On Monday, we had Harry Dyson, who was a barrister, and he described what he had to do in his job and how he decided to become a barrister. We found out that he went to school in Honley, which is really near us! He also showed us the wig and cloak that he has to wear when he is going into court. Thank you so much Harry for coming to explain your job and potentially inspire new barristers.
On Tuesday, we had a visit from Duncan, who is a development chef, and Lorna, who is a nutritionist. Duncan spoke to the children about how he choose to became a chef and the previous jobs he did. He explained that he has worked in lots of different restaurants, hotels and now designs menus for different schools and hospitals. Lorna spoke about how we need to eat the correct food to have a balanced diet and how she helps businesses to ensure that this is happening.
On Wednesday, Jane Raleigh came to visit us who is a Neuro Physiotherapist. She talk to us about what she has to do every day and how she changes it every visit she does to adapt to the patients needs. She explain the qualifications that children who need to get in order to do her job. Jane then told us about the different people she has visited on Tuesday which included adults and children. Her daughter, Lois, came up to the front and demonstrated some activities that can help people in their sessions. Thank you so much Jane, both children and teachers found this useful and informative!
On Thursday, Key Stage 2 had a visit from Kathy Lee came to talk to the children about her job as a book keeper and owning her own accountancy company. She explained her day-to-day tasks and even showed the children an example account (a made-up one!). Kathy showed how maths is really important to help 'balance' the money coming in and going out of accounts. The children had lots of questions which Kathy gladly answered. A big thank you from Key Stage 2!
Musica Jazz Recital
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27th February 2024
We were lucky enough on Tuesday to have the Musica Jazz ensemble come and perform for the whole school. The recital covers musical instruments, science of sound, key vocabulary and different styles and genres of music. We had a teacher from each family of instruments, the string, woodwind, percussion and brass families, they brought a range of instruments to show us while performing different pieces of music. They talked about how their instruments make the sounds they do and how you can change the pitch, dynamic and tempo when playing the instruments. We had lots of fun joining in with the actions, feeling the different mouthpieces and even creating our own piano! We ended our session by joining in with the song, I'm Still Standing. Thank you to the Musica Jazz team, we had so much fun!
Remembrance Day 2023
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10th November 2023
Today, the whole school came together in our merit assembly and took part in a 2 minutes silence, as we are not going to be in school tomorrow. During this time, we remembered all of the people and animals who we have lost and those who are still helping to keep us safe. We are incredibly proud of how all of the children conducted themselves.
Year 5 have been learning the poem, In Flanders Field, and they performed this in assembly for the whole school. It was incredibly moving so thank you Miss Eastwood and Year Five!
Each day, year 6 children have been coming into class with poppies and we have been donating to this very worthy cause.
Reception were busy in the run up to this important day and have created some beautiful stained glass window poppies which we have put on our library windows.
Mrs Parker
House captain and Vice-Captain elections
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13th October 2023
At the start of a new school year, the school chooses new house captains for our houses; Pitcher, Booth, Hayley-Porteous and Stewart. Children in Year 6 wrote speeches if they were interested in running for these roles and recorded them for us to watch. In class, we listened to the speeches, which were fantastic, and then democratically voted for who we thought would make a good house captain. Our votes were put with the results of the other classes in school and the house captain and vice-captain were announced in assembly on Friday.
Harvest Live
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4th October 2023
On Wednesday, Key Stage 1 and 2 took part in NFU Education's Harvest Live! We looked at how to make a delicious Palak Paneer dish. We learnt how to grow onions, spinach and coriander, along with understand which part of the plant they come from and how to prepare them safely. We then went on a quest to discover where the milk we needed to make the paneer cheese came from, meeting the robots who do the milking and feeding the calves on Farmer Elaine's diary farm.
Key Stage One Sports Day
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14th July 2023
What a fantastic Key Stage One sports day we have had today! We are so proud of all the children who completed all the races, despite the weather! A massive thank you to the house captain's and vice captain's from Year Six, who came and helped us out by adding up the scores, deciding on the order each child came in the race and setting up the various races that we did. The races we did were:
Caterpillar Race
Shuttle Race
Javelin
Obstacle Race
Sprint
Shot Putt
Caterpillar Race
Here are some photos from the day:
Neiley Races - Race 3, the final race!
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22nd May 2023
Last Wednesday, we took part in the final Neiley race of the year. We are incredibly proud of all children who have taken part in the three Neiley Races! All children supported each other, they showed fantastic sportsmanship and were brilliant ambassadors for the school!
Thank you for all the support of parents, we will see you all next year!
Here are the results from race 3 and overall:
Year 3&4 Girls Race Results
Girls_3-4_2023_After_Race_3.pdf
Team_Girls_3-4_After_Race_3_2023.pdf
Year 3&4 Boys Race Results
Boys_3-4_2023_After_Race_3.pdf
Team_Boys_3-4_After_Race_1_2023.pdf
Year 5&6 Girls Race Results
Girls_5-6_2023_After_Race_3.pdf
Team_Girls_5-6_After_Race_3_2023.pdf
Year 5&6 Boys Race Results
Boys_5-6_2023_After_Race_3.pdf
Team_Boys_5-6_After_Race_3_2023.pdf
Neiley Races - Race 2 Results
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9th May 2023
Results are here .... Here are the individual and team results for the second Neiley race. All the children did incredibly well and we are all very proud of them and their sportsmanship. See you all next Wednesday for the final race!
Year 3&4 Girls Race Results
Girls_3-4_2023_After_Race_2.pdf
Team_Girls_3-4_After_Race_2_2023.pdf
Year 3&4 Boys Race Results
Boys_3-4_2023_After_Race_2.pdf
Team_Boys_3-4_After_Race_2_2023.pdf
Year 5&6 Girls Race Results
Girls_5-6_2023_After_Race_2.pdf
Team_Girls_5-6_After_Race_2_2023.pdf
Year 5&6 Boys Race Results
Boys_5-6_2023_After_Race_2.pdf
Team_Boys_5-6_After_Race_1_2023.pdf
King Charles Coronation Celebrations!
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5th May 2023
This week, we have been celebrating the monumental event of the Coronation of King Charles. Take a look on the individual class blogs to see what each class have been up to!
As a school, we held our very own Proms in the Playground. All classes learnt a song from the seven decades that the King has been alive. Everyone went out onto the playground and we listened to a wide genre of songs! We finished the concert by singing the national anthem as a school. Here is the programme of songs that we sung:
All the children were amazing and we were very moved by the effort the classes had put into learning about this once in a special event!
Have fun celebrating over the long bank holiday weekend!
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