Year One have been practising their dance moves during PE this week. They’ve used the story of The Smartest Giant in Town’ by Julia Donaldson and have followed music, created movements and played different characters during their performances. Can you spot where some of us were being terrified mice while the fire raged around us? […]
What a fantastic first week Reception have had. We have been so busy making new friends, exploring our classroom and outside area, enjoying new activities, investigating, building, drawing, making, dancing, meditating and so much more. We can’t wait to see what next week has in store. 😀
Year One have worked amazingly well this week, settling brilliantly in to their new classroom, showing us their growth mindsets, working in teams for PE and stretching their brains when sorting in Maths! 🧠 Keep it up everyone: your independence has already grown and we are so proud of you and your bravery – you […]
This week, Year Five have enjoyed an adventurous visit Stanley Head to develop their mountaineering skills. Throughout the day, they completed climbing, abseiling and orienteering challenge. To their credit, they all demonstrated fantastic team work and a super growth mindset.
The children had a fantastic time on Wednesday, competing in their first sports day. They all did amazingly well and completed a sprint, an obstacle course, the bean bag race and the teddy on the tray race. Well done Nursery, you superstars!
What a fantastic day the Reception children had on Sports Day. We were very lucky with the weather and managed to complete all of our races before the heavens opened. The children had a growth mindset and approached all of the races with enthusiasm. They developed a range of skills which included throwing, jumping, running […]
Year Six have enjoyed an incredible week at Stanley Head. It is amazing to see how each child has grown over the course of the week. Children have been bouldering in the roaches and learning about rock formations, reading maps and symbols to complete a scavenger hunt, throwing axes, shooting rifles, stacking crates, canoeing and, […]
This term, some Year Two children have participated in swimming and others have stayed and completed fundamental skills with Mr Mellor. This lesson was a running technique lesson and at the end of the lesson, we had some races.
This week Reception listened to a story about some children who needed to practise playing nicely together and taking turns. Following on from the story, the children went outside to learn some new playground games that they could play at playtime and dinnertime. They played Soldiers and Sausages, Skittles, Duck, duck, goose and What’s the […]
This half term in Year Five, our P.E. has been focused on athletics. We have been training in a range of events from the sprint to the egg and spoon. Each week the children have been implementing their maths skills to record their times/scores and taking a weekly average.