Class 15 – World Book Day 2024

7th March 2024Claire Dutton

Wow – what a fantastic effort by Class 15 for World Book Day! Costumes and props are fantastic and our first entries for the wooden spoon competition are amazing … well done everyone! The children have enjoyed different reading-themed activities throughout the day, including designing their own book covers and favourite book reviews.

Don’t forget – there is still time to decorate your wooden spoon as a book character and enter the competition for the deadline next week. Why not plan it into your long weekend and make use of the days that school is closed for teacher training days?

As part of World Book Day, we are also looking to revamp our reading area and the children have been so excited to help design this with a space theme … watch this space! (Literally!)

Class 15 – Fabulous Artwork!

5th March 2024Claire Dutton

Today, Class 15 have been impressing everyone with their fabulous artwork practising one-point perspective ready for working on our final products next week. Well done everyone 🙂

Class 15 – Rail Expert Visitors

28th February 2024Claire Dutton

Today, we have enjoyed two fantastic workshops – one about rail safety from Network Rail and the other about careers in the rail industry by Northern Rail. Both workshops were fantastically interesting and gave us plenty of food for thought. Well done to everyone – your behaviour and manners towards our visitors were impeccable. A special shout out goes to Edward who made a wonderful conductor!

Class 15 – Using Critique to Improve our Artwork

27th February 2024Claire Dutton

Today, Class 15 have enjoyed creating watercolour art in the style of Quentin Blake. We had a go at creating a picture of George Stephenson’s Rocket (an early locomotive) and then we used peer critique to help us make improvements to a second draft. Great effort everybody – you all did a fantastic job!

Class 15 – A Fantastic First Week with Mrs Dutton

23rd February 2024Claire Dutton

Wow! What a fantastic week, I have enjoyed with my new class – Class 15. Everybody has made me feel so welcome and I have been so impressed by all of your learning and craftsmanship efforts … keep up the amazing work and I can’t wait to see how far we can go together!

This week, we have enjoyed learning about: decimals and fractions in Maths; non-fiction texts in English; watercolours and The Flying Scotsman in Expedition; and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in Reading … we even managed to squeeze in a bit of hockey for PE in the rain, too! I hope everyone is ready for a well-earned rest over the weekend 🙂

Don’t forget, if you want to do a bit of extra background research about The Flying Scotsman in preparation for writing next week, you could check out the Railway Museum website at: https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk . Or even pay them a visit in York with your family over the weekend?

I can’t wait to see you all again on Monday – have a lovely weekend, Mrs Dutton x

Y5 Expert Visitor – Train Driver

23rd February 2024Claire Dutton

Yesterday, Year 5 enjoyed a visit from one of our Y6 children’s mums – Sarah – who is a real-life train driver. We enjoyed learning about the different roles that Sarah has worked in as well as all the training she has had to complete in order to be a successful train driver. The children asked lots of varied and interesting questions, and we were really shocked to find out that there are only 39 female train drivers in the whole country … out of 400+! Lots of the children showed huge enthusiasm for life on the tracks so perhaps we have some budding train drivers amongst our Green Top crew?