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Summer Citizenship Awards

As always at the end of every full term, we celebrated great learning and behavioural attitudes by awarding Citizenship Awards to one child in each year group who epitomises our school values of Resilience, Resourcefulness, Kindness and Creativity on a daily basis. Every time we hadn out these awards it is a such a hard […]

Life Cycle Animations

Putting into practice Year 3 learning from ‘How does your garden grow?’, Year 3 children made stop-motion animations of plant life cycles. They could include: Parts of a plant Requirements for growth Pollination and fertilisation Here are some of the results.

Design and Food Technology – Ice-cream!

What better way to finish a series of Maths lesson using mass and capacity, than to use these skills to make ice-cream? The children worked brilliantly together to measure the incredients and follow the recipe to make delicious ice-cream. It was the perfect way to cool off in the hot weather!

Goodbye Mr Rawnsley’s Class

Thank you everyone, I have had such a wonderful time being your teacher. I am so glad to see you all making you way to year 1, where you will have a wonderful time and learn so many new things. Have a wonderful summer and a lovely time next year. I will treasure all of […]

The Wileman Cup Final 2022

Our intra-school football competition culminated with a brilliant final between AFC Kerwin and Furniss Rovers. With the whole school watching on,every child had a great game, doing themselves and their teams proud. Furniss ran out 5-3 winners. This event would not be possible without the fantastic Y6 captains, who help to organise and referee every […]

Y5 Castleton Residential – Tuesday

On Tuesday morning, while some children went for a stroll and a paddle down Miller’s Dale, others completed the High Ropes challenges and obstacle course on site. In the afternoon some groups went caving, while others did the High Ropes then had a dip in the pond! Tuesday finished off with a toasted marshmallow around […]

Year 3 2021-22

Thanks to all the children in Year 3 for making 2021-22 so special. It has been a brilliany year and you agre going to make superb Year 4s! Have a great summer!

Goodbye Miss Armitage’s Class 2021/22

I would just like to say a big thank you to you all. You have made my first year of teaching an amazing one, I have the most wonderful memories of this year and I will miss you all. Good luck in Y1, I know you will all be fantastic! I hope you all have […]

Y4 Raft Building (and Floating!)

As an end of term celebration, which we had to postpone from Easter because of rain (seems a long time ago now!), Y4 utilised some of their Outdoor Learning knowledge to lash sticks together to create rafts. We then took them down to Old Hay Brook and Totley Brook to test them out. As you […]