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Year 5
March 14, 2024

Y5/6 Trip to Flamingo Land

On Monday 11th March, years 5 and 6 visited Flamingo Land Zoo to enrich their learning and understanding of The Rainforest.  They took part in workshops run by zoo staff and had a tour of the zoo.   In the workshop, the children learnt about cockroaches and the tenrec hedgehog. The children had an amazing time...
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January 29, 2024

Y5 Orienteering

The Y5 children took part in an Orienteering festival on Thursday. Luckily the weather held off! Each group was given a map with two different courses to complete. The children worked amazingly in their groups, communicating and listening to each other, putting the skills they learnt in their PE lessons last year into practice. Well...
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January 10, 2024

Young Voices 2024

Yesterday, 26 of our Key Stage 2 children left school at 10.30 and travelled to Sheffield Utilita Arena for the Young Voices 2024 concert!   On arrival we ate our first packed lunch of the day on the coach and then made our way into the arena.  We finally got in from the cold, found our...
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December 18, 2023

KS2 Christmas Concert

Today our Children in KS2 performed their Christmas Concert.  This year the performance is based on ‘The Little Christmas Tree’ and involves all of the woodland animals decorating the little tree, working together, forming friendships and being kind to each other.  Many thanks to Mrs Perry for her patience and dedication to the practices and...
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December 15, 2023

Cross Country Final

A few months ago, children from years 3, 4 and 5 attended a cross country event.  Many of our children came in the top 10 of their heats and were therefore invited to the Cross Country final that took place this week.  14 children travelled to Selby college to take part in the event.  The...
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December 15, 2023

Year 5 & 6 Band

Our assembly this week was rocked by the Tockwith school y5 and y6 bands!  The children ‘rocked out’ on stage with their teacher Mr Crilley and put on an awesome performance to parents and the remainder of the school.  It takes a lot of courage to perform in a small group to such a lot...
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December 15, 2023

Harrogate Christmas Concert

At the start of December our school choir travelled to Harrogate Convention Centre for a Christmas Concert.   The children arrived at the Convention centre just after lunch and took part in an afternoon rehearsal with several other schools, an adult choir and a full orchestra.  The children had their packed lunches and then the evening...
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October 26, 2023

Y5 Trip to Pontefract Racecourse

Year 5 were invited to work with the “Racing to School Education Programme” this week.  They  travelled to Pontefract Racecourse where they looked at how Maths, Science and Literacy is used within the world or Horse Racing.  The activities included weight measurements, planning a diet, writing a race card and timetabling. Unfortunately due to the...
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October 20, 2023

Reading in School

We were delighted to open up our school this morning to parent and carers of children in Reception and years 2-6.  Adults visited their child(ren’s) classes to observe and experience a guided reading session.  The children engaged with their parents/carers during the session and were able to get a real feel for how children read...
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October 13, 2023

KS2 Cross Country

Yesterday Miss Stanton took 31 children to Sherburn High School for a cross country competition.  Children in Y3/4 had to run around the (very large) field twice, and children in Y5/6 ran around two and a half times.  It’s very tricky to pace yourself in an event like this but our children were superb –...
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