Art

During our Art afternoons we have been creating Mayan houses using a range of media.

Maths

We created number bonds to 10 by finding cubes in the sand.

Phonics

We have been practising how to spell our ‘tricky’ words using chalk.

Junior medics - First Aid

We were extremely lucky to receive a visit from Miss M from Sporting Influence to ...

D&T - bread making

This half term our Design and Technology project has been bread making. The children began ...

Maths Day

To celebrate Maths Day we focused our learning around the book ‘365 Penguins’. We read ...

Topic - Stone Age Britain

As part of our new Stone Age topic, Willow Class took part in an exciting ...

Science Day

Sicklinghall celebrated Science Week by participating in a Science Day. Mrs Heslop held an assembly ...

Dance Festival

Willow took part in a Dance Festival which was held at Ashville College. We are ...

In art, children were introduced to the artist Ellen Jackson. The children looked closely at ...

Humanist assembly

Brian Quinn came to visit KS2 to share information about what a Humanist is and ...

PE - Gymnastics

This half term our focus is Gymnastics. We have been performing different rolls, linking a ...

Topic

This week in Geography we have been looking at a world map to locate and ...

PE

This half term we are focusing on rugby. We have been learning how to pass ...

PSHE

This term our topic is Families and Friendships. We have been focusing on how to ...

The nature in Sicklinghall

Whilst exploring in the outdoor area we found a friend! We filled a container with ...

Outdoor experiences

We explored the feel of paint on our hands and feet and created a collage ...

Science

This half term our topic is Plants. We have been in the outdoor area making ...

PE

This half term we have been focusing on working as a team. To be successful ...

Topic - The Mayans

This half term our History topic is The Mayans. For our Departure Day Catherine Conyard ...

Silver Birch

Our children in Silver Birch are taught by Miss Thompson and Miss Kennedy Silver Birch ...

Industrial Revolution

Our History topic this half term is the Industrial Revolution. For our Departure Day we ...

Design and Technology

This half term our topic is Cooking. The children researched, explored and designed their own ...

Science - Rocks and Soils

This half term our Science has a cross curricular link to our Geography topic: Natural ...

World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day we all wore our pyjamas. Throughout the day we celebrated ...

Young Shakespeare

We were extremely lucky to receive a visit from Young Shakespeare for a performance of ...

Geography - Natural Disasters

This half term our Geography topic is Natural Disasters. We were extremely lucky to be ...

Muddy Puddle

Over the last few weeks we have been creating habitats for the wildlife. Last week ...

PE - Dance Festival

We were given the opportunity to participate in the Dance Festival at Ashville College. The ...

RE - Mosque

We visited our friends from Victoria School and we’re given the opportunity to visit the ...

History - The Romans

This half term our History topic is The Romans. We visited Murton Park to experience ...

Christmas Jumper Day

Today we celebrated Christmas by wearing our Christmas jumpers. It was also Christmas dinner day ...

PSHE

In PSHE we have been thinking about our emotions and how people may feel. We ...

African Drumming and Dancing

We were very lucky to have a visit from Owen who shared his knowledge of ...

Science - Departure Day

This half term our topic is Friction. To explore the concept of friction the children ...

Fire Safety Talk

We were visited by North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to talk to us about ...

Science - Light

This half term in Science our focus is Light. We have been investigating which material ...

Muddy Puddle Friday

For Muddy Puddle Friday we took advantage of the wet weather to create mud pictures.

Art - Colour wheels

In Art this week our focus artist was Robert Motherwell. We began by exploring his ...

Departure Day

Silver Birch joined our friends at Goldsborough for a visit from Catherine Conyard to introduce ...

Beekeeper

This week we were extremely lucky to have a visit from William, who is a ...

RE

This half term we have used Art to help us discover Sikhism. The children observed ...

PE

In PE this week we focused on skills with a tennis racquet and a ball ...

Muddy Puddle

On Saturday it is World Ocean Day so to celebrate this during Muddy Puddle the ...

Science

Our Science topic this half term is Living things and their Habitats. Our lesson focus ...

Art

This half term our focus is: 3D form - Sculpture. The children have been inspired ...

Art

This half term our focus is 3D form: Sculpture. The children have been creating sculptures ...

Muddy Puddle

This week Raphy chose our activities for Muddy Puddle. He chose making daisy chains, as ...

Visit from Victoria

Our friends from our link school in Bradford visited Silver Birch. We visited the church ...

Herd Farm

We visited Herd Farm alongside Goldsborough to learn all about the Stone Age - our ...

Departure Day

Our History topic this half term is The Stone Age. For our Departure Day the ...

Welcome Back

Our first week back in Silver Birch has been extremely positive. I am so proud ...

Growing Numbers

Steve come into Silver Birch to talk to us about numbers and how they grow ...

Canvas Camp

We had a fantastic time when Wilderness Outdoors came into school to host Year 3/4 ...

Mayan Experience Day

This week we visited our friends at Goldsborough Primary School for a special experience. Itzil ...

Science - Plants Investigation

In Science we are investigating what plants need to survive. We have set up an ...

RE - ‘What do I think about God?’

In RE our big question for the half term is ‘What do I think about ...

Place Value Maths

The children have made a fantastic start to their learning this year. In Maths we ...

New School Year!

Welcome back for another school year. The children have made a fantastic start with their ...

Computing - Garageband App

We have been creating our own soundtracks using a range of instruments and considering the ...

Topic - Our Local Area

We have been for a walk around Sicklinghall in order to use our fieldwork and ...

Art - Summer 1

We design and created our own tessellated tile by using a range of pattern techniques ...

DT Summer 2 - Levers and linkages

We have been exploring different levers and linkages in order to design and make a ...

Community Fire Safety Talk

We learned a lot from the firefighters who talk to us about how to keep ...

Art: Patterns

We explored the creation of patterns in different surfaces using play dough, chalk and colour ...

Bradford Industrial Museum Trip

We have had the opportunity to experience school life during Victorian times and to see ...

Science investigation - Sound

We have been learning about how sounds are made and how they travel so that ...

Art - Shading

Tom Palmer in School

We have been preparing for the author’s visit by discussing his books and job.

DT final pizzas

We have finally made our own pizza 🍕! Kneading the dough wasn’t easy but we ...

PE fun games

We have played ‘The master code’ game. It doesn’t only require to work as a ...

Down Syndrome Day

We have been learning about Down Syndrome through the story ‘47 Strings’. We have linked ...

DT Making Pizzas!

In Silver Birch class we are exploring how to design a healthy pizza with a ...

RE Holi Workshop

We enjoyed learning further about Holi and dancing following some ambitious steps from our Indian ...

Silver Birch PE fun sessions

In Years 3 and 4 we have been learning about ‘Multiskills’ (coordination, balance, movement and ...

Science - Silver Birch

We used our knowledge of magnets to design and create our own magnetic games.

History

We used our research to create posters on the different buildings in a Roman city.

Happy Christmas from Silver Birch

Silver Birch have enjoyed a fun last week. On Thursday morning they received a visit ...

Christmas Enterprise

On Thursday Silver Birch were given the opportunity to showcase the products that they had ...

Pottery morning

On Thursday Silver Birch participated in making pottery tree decorations. The children thoroughly enjoyed designing ...

Nell Bank

On Thursday the children visited Nell Bank, in Ilkley to participate in an activity day ...

Halloween

On Monday all of the children dressed up to celebrate Halloween. They all enjoyed an ...

Twelfth Night

Following the performance by the Young Shakespeare Company this week in English we have focused ...

Movie Night and Young Shakespeare Company

The children in Silver Birch have participated in two great experiences this week. Last night ...

Science

Our topic this half term is Light. Our challenge was to investigate which material would ...

National Poetry Day

To celebrate National Poetry Day we looked at poems about the environment. Our focus poet ...

Science Dome - Silver Birch

As part of our Science topic: Light, we were able to experience the sights and ...

Den Building

Silver Birch thoroughly enjoyed their den building experience with Chris. Their first challenge, set by ...

Departure Day

Silver Birch participated in lots of practical and fun activities as an introduction to our ...

Welcome Back

It is great to see all of the children back in school after the summer ...

PSHE - Silver Birch

This half term our topic focus is Relationships. Over the past few weeks we have ...

RE and Art - Silver Birch

This week we have been celebrating the religion of Sikhism. During RE we learnt about ...

Maths - Silver Birch

In maths this week our focus has been Measuring - Capacity. The Year 3’s participated ...

Den Building - Silver Birch

On Tuesday the whole school had a fantastic morning participating in the den building with ...

Summer 2 Departure Day - Silver Birch

This half term our Science topic is Electricity and our Geography topic is What makes ...

PE- Silver Birch

In PE this week the children participated in a number of activities to showcase the ...

Jubilee Celebrations (History) - Silver Birch

On Thursday we celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. At lunch time we all had a ...

Art/PSHE - Silver Birch

Our Art focus this half term is Printing and Digital Media. This week we explored ...

Summer 1 Departure Day - Silver Birch

This half term our History topic is Modern Culture - changes from the 1950’s. For ...

Nell Bank - Silver Birch

Yesterday Silver Birch visited Nell Bank as part of our PSHE and RE curriculum. We ...

Art - Silver Birch

This half term our Art focus is the Stone Age to the Iron Age - ...

Science Day- Silver Birch

On Monday we celebrated Science by completing interesting and exciting experiments. We set up and ...

Spring 1 Departure Day - Silver Birch

This week we celebrated Departure Day by exploring our Geography and Science topics. Our topic ...

Enterprise Day - Silver Birch

We have all had lots of fun designing and creating our felt decorations and Christmas ...

Christmas Party Day - Silver Birch

On Thursday we celebrated Christmas in school. We all wore our ‘party’ clothes, played lots ...

PSHE - Silver Birch

This week we received a visit from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service. During the ...

English - Silver Birch

During English this week we have been using information to create a fact file about ...

Anti-Bullying Week - Silver Birch

To support the Anti-Bullying Campaign we participated in different activities throughout the week. On Monday ...

Animal Handler - Silver Birch

During English this week we met an animal handler who shared a variety of animals ...

Departure Day - Silver Birch

For our departure day our scheduled destination was South America. Everyone dressed up for the ...

Den Building - Silver Birch

We had a fantastic morning participating in the den building with Chris. The children worked ...

Halloween Day - Silver Birch

On Thursday Silver Birch participated in a day of Halloween activities. The children came dressed ...

Science - Silver Birch

Our Science topic this half term is plants. Over the past few weeks we have ...

Maths - Silver Birch

Our place value focus in maths this week has been finding, 1, 10 and 100 ...

French - Silver Birch

This week in French we have been learning how to count up to 4. We ...

Art - Silver Birch

Our focus for Art for this half term is The Mayans, which links to our ...

Welcome Back and Departure Day - Silver Birch

It is great to see all of the children back in class. They have returned ...

RE - Martin Luther King - Silver Birch

As a cross curricular link to our biography focus in English we looked at Martin ...

Humility - Silver Birch

This week we have continued to focus on last weeks ethos statement with regards to ...

Science - Pitch - Silver Birch

This week in science we talked about the difference between pitch and volume. We discovered ...

Weekly Ethos Statement

This week our weekly ethos statement is taken from the bible: "Humble yourself before the ...

Science experiments

This week in science our learning objective was: I can associate sound with something vibrating ...

Weekly Ethos Statement

This week our ethos statement is: 'Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking ...

Departure Day - April 2021

We all had a great day yesterday as we experienced what it would have been ...

Hokusai inspired art

In art over the past two weeks we looked at our focus artist Hokusai and ...

Red Nose Day

We celebrated Red Nose Day by dressing up as Super Heroes.

English - Reports

This week in English our genre is reports. Today our learning objective was: I know ...

Art

In art we have been focusing on the artist Hokusai and his style of work ...

Igneous sweets

In science we have been looking at the 3 different types of natural rocks, one ...

Igneous sweets

Welcome back!

It has been great to see all the children back at school this week. I ...

Persuasive texts

This week in english we wrote adverts to persuade shoppers to buy sprouts! These are ...

Spring 2 Departure Day

This week we introduced our new topic 'Volcanoes and Earthquakes'. In english we explored Pompeii ...

World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day we dressed up as our favourite book characters. We read ...

Art- Grayson Perry

Our artist this half term has been Grayson Perry. Over the past few weeks we ...

PSHE

This week we have been discussing how being unkind can have an impact on others ...

Autumn 2 - Departure Day

We kick started our Departure Day by mummifying an tomato. We carefully took out the ...

Forest Schools

We have had lots of fun this term exploring the outside world with Forest School ...

23.10.2020 Wear What Makes You Happy Day

We all wore what made us happy today! All whilst raising money for the PTFA ...

Our Thankful Tree

As part of our Harvest Festival celebrations this year, we have been discussing what we ...

Relax Kids

Relax Kids is very high profile in school at the moment. We have a full ...

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore

This week we started a new text, 'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore' ...

The Colour Monster

It was lovely welcoming the children back to school this week. We spent a lot ...

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