Our immersion lesson for the next phase of English work allowed the children to recreate the scene of Grace Darling’s brave rescue mission. It gave the opportunity for our children to utilise the classroom equipment to make and act out… Read more: Grace Darling
On Friday 22nd March, the Y6 Netball team played in the Westbourne U11 Netball Festival based at Ponds Forge. The team did extremely well, winning two of their matches and drawing the last. Finishing third overall, their teamwork and determination… Read more: Y6 Netball Festival
During the last few weeks all the children in school have had several assembly presentations in which we’ve looked at the huge benefits of trees and woodland on our mental health and of course the wider environment. The Y3 and Y1 children… Read more: Tree Planting
As part of our Learning Journey, we used Bear Grylls jumping out of a ‘flying car’ as inspiration to find out more about flight. We started off by thinking about the forces involved: thrust, drag, lift and gravity, and how… Read more: Y4 Flight Investigations – STEM Learning
In Science this half term, Y6 have been learning about light and seeing. Children have learnt about the physics of how light travels, reflects, refracts and creates shadows of varying sizes as well as the biology of how the human… Read more: Y6 – Science – Light and Seeing
During our music lessons with Mr Deveney, the children have been able to use a range of instruments including glockenspiels, guitars and ukuleles. They have been extremely engaged with the lessons and we have received really positive feedback from parents… Read more: Music- Glockenspiel’s
Thursday 7th March was World Book Day and DPS celebrated in style! Children really embraced the theme of “Read Your Way!” deciding to dress up or come in comfy clothes. They, of course, brought in and shared a huge range of… Read more: World Book Day 2024
We were very fortunate to be invited to bring 15 children to this taster event – one of only 20 primary schools in the whole of South Yorkshire. As you will be able to see from the photos below, we… Read more: Y4 South Yorkshire Games Showcase Event
Y4 entered into the school Panathlon event, taking two teams to Concord Sports Centre to compete against other Sheffield Schools in a range of mutli-skill zones. We not only had a great time, but came second overall and brought home… Read more: Y3 & Y4 Panathlon
In History the children have been learning all about The Stone Age. They have learned lots of new facts and we have also researched information that we were unsure about using the IPADS. In this lesson this children used lots… Read more: Y3 History – The Stone Age
In Maths Y3 are looking at Length and perimeter. The children took a metre stick and measured the trees on Kings Croft. The children put the information they had found into a tally chart. We had a great time not… Read more: Y3 Maths – Measuring trees
In PE we have been looking at how we can sequence point and patch balances. The children used benches, apparatus and mats to plan a sequence that involved a jump, balance and a roll.
Y4 had a great World Book Day. Lots of children dressed up using a great deal of creativity. We wrote some beautiful friendship poems inspired by Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho, which you can some examples of below. In the afternoon… Read more: Y4 World Book Day
On Saturday 24th February, the Y6 Netball team played their very first matches at the U11 SFSS Tournament based at the Sheffield Girls High School. To say it was the first time they had all played together as a team,… Read more: Y6 Netball Tournament
In Computing, Year 6 have been creating platform games using the block-based programming language Scratch. These games challenged children to use operators, variables, broadcasts and control blocks and are an excellent example creativity. Some examples are included below for your… Read more: Y6 – Computing – Scratch Platform Games
In our Design and Technology lessons, Year 6 have completed a T.A.S.C project to build strong structures. Children were tasked with building a structure, with a pitched roof, which could bear he maximum load under compression when loaded from above.… Read more: Y6 – DT – Shelter Design and Construction
Our maths in Y2 has moved onto fractions. Our immersion lesson allowed for our Y2s to create their own pizza’s, bread and cakes using salt dough, integrating fractions to split their creations into halves, quarters and thirds.
Our new learning journey Mists of Time begins with a lesson on all about whether items are biodegradable or non-biodegradable. The children went outside and buried different items and used their predicting skills to predict what the items will look… Read more: Y3 History
After successfully winning two rounds of heats, we are very proud of our Y6 Athletics team who finished 4th in the Sheffield City Finals. The team were a credit to the school in how the approached the competition, supporting each… Read more: Y6 Athletics Team
Linking with our geographical Learning Journey, Out and About, Year 5 have been writing narratives based on The Ridge. We first focused upon building an atmosphere of apprehension by describing the daunting setting and the characters body-language to represent his… Read more: Year 5 – Narrative Writing – The Ridge
Thank you to all the children in Y6 who reviewed one or more of the shortlisted books for this year’s Royal Society Science Book of the Year Award. Our final ratings have been decided and our feedback has been sent… Read more: Science Book Awards 2024
This half term the Year 3s have been the challenged to design and make a sled that will travel smoothly and quickly across the snow for their Inuk friend Aput! After researching existing sled designs and learning all about friction,… Read more: Y3 Sled Designs
Inspired by Inuit sculpture we made models of polar animals out of clay. To make them strong, we needed to form them out of one piece not stick bits together. We also painted a background showing the environment they live… Read more: Y3 Clay Models – Polar Animals
This week were thinking about birds in pre-school. How they live outside in the cold in the winter and we wondered where they may shelter . The children learnt about the robin, blue-tit, blackbird and sparrow. We made a winter… Read more: Big bird watch
The past two Thursdays we have been visited by Sharon from A Chance to Shine who has shown our children the basics of cricket, with emphasis on throwing, catching and batting. The children thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and showcased their… Read more: PE- Cricket sessions with A Chance to Shine
This week our children have learnt how to create and follow a recipe effectively. They have used adverbs and adjectives to add depth and understanding to their recipes. On Monday, they then showed maturity, skill and patience in baking their… Read more: English- Banana bread making
The Y2’s have been enjoying their learning journey topic of “Home and Away”. Last week they learnt how to effectively use a compass around our school grounds.
After finding out about the Greek Myth King Midas, the children were asked to reflect upon the question, ‘What would I wish for if I had one wish?’ Using Philosophy for Children strategies, children were able to build on one… Read more: Y4 – P4C Through History and English
Today we talked about Geography being the study of places and had a look at some different types of maps. The children then created theirown maps. Some at the table with an adult, some wanted to have a go themseves… Read more: FS2 – Imaginary maps
In outdoor learning this week we headed on a tour of the grounds to see what kinds of birdlife we could spot in advance of the Great British Birdwatch happening this weekend. The children had to exercise a lot of… Read more: FS2 are ornithologists!
Linked to our Pole to Pole learning journey our theme this term was shelter building. Our day was suitably chilly -2 degrees but no one complained! Just look how we got on. There were four activities running through out the… Read more: Y3 Outdoor Learning – Shelter Building
This week the children have been enjoying the winter story of 10 on a sled. In the land of the midnight sun, all the animals are having fun speeding down the hill on Caribous sled. But as they go faster… Read more: Spring 1 week 2 -10 on a sled and ice .
Happy New Year to everyone. Welcome back to pre-school and a big welcome to all the new children starting pre-school this term . We’ve enjoyed the week settling back in and catching up with our news from the holidays. The… Read more: Welcome back – Spring 1
The children have been using their comparing and measuring skills in maths as we explored mass and capcity in the maths sessions we have had since Christmas. The children were knowledgeable about the kind of vocabulary we use when we… Read more: Measuring in FS2
In Science, we have been investigating the forces involved in buoyancy. As part of our Pole to Pole learning journey we looked at Ernest Shackleton’s ship the Endeavour on his trip to the Antarctic. We started with a ‘control’ ship… Read more: Y3 Science – Buoyancy
For the final piece of learning in our ‘Food for Thought’ learning journey, Y4 spent a week studying bread, including where it comes from and how it is made. We started off by finding out about the many types of… Read more: Y4 Bread Baking
Year 1 have started their new English topic looking into Katherine Johnson’s life. They acted as Katherine by making rockets suitable to fly into space!
… my true love sent to me a fantastic whole-school assembly! Every child (and adult) in school came together in the junior hall to enjoy and join in with performances from the Junior Choir and the Y2 Nativity. This lovely… Read more: On the Last Day Before Christmas…
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Our immersion lesson for the next phase of English work allowed the children to recreate the scene of Grace Darling’s brave rescue mission. It gave the opportunity for our children to utilise the classroom equipment to make and act out… Read more: Grace Darling
