Food Tech - Pao de Queijo | Sicklinghall CP School

Willow made their own Brazilian street food dish: Pao de Queijo and chimichurri sauce!

Dark Nights - Special Visit!

The children had a special visit from the fire department to talk about staying safe ...

Science - Plants

Willow carried out a Science experiment with Mrs Heslop to investigate what plants need to ...

Maths - Place Value

All of KS2 have been revisiting their understanding of Place Value by practising with Base ...

Topic - Now Press Play

This half term, we are learning all about the fascinating world of the Ancient Maya ...

Departure Day - Mayan Experience

We had an amazing visit from Mrs McDade, who brought the world of the Ancient ...

River Systems

Willow created their own river systems and labelled the parts with post-it notes. Some amazing ...

T Shirt Printing

Willow have printed their own colourful designs on T shirts!

Tulip Dissection

This term’s Science topic is Living Things. Willow expertly dissected tulips and labelled the parts!

Pop Art - Printing

Willow have been inspired by Andy Warhol this half term and are using a printing ...

Santa Visit and Leavers’ Hoodies

Santa was nice enough to stop by and give all of Willow a present. The ...

Caribbean Drumming & African Dance

Willow were lucky enough to have a Caribbean drumming and African dance workshop!

First Aid training

Willow and Silver Birch received first aid training, including how to keep people alive while ...

Fire and Rescue Service

The North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service came to talk to pupils about keeping safe ...

Creating a vanishing point in Art

Willow have used straight lines to create a linear perspective.

Netball Competition

The Willow girls headed off for a netball competition at Ashville! We saw some brilliant ...

Light Mazes!

Today Willow created light mazes in groups, using their knowledge that light travels in straight ...

Departure Day - World War 2

Willow have created “blackout poems” linked to our WW2 topic. We “blacked out” words from ...

Transition Day

Next year’s Willow class (the current Year 5s and Year 4s) got together for transition ...

Beekeeping!

Willow were lucky enough to have a beekeeper come to school today. We learnt about ...

DT Dazzle Day - Spring Rolls!

Willow have made veggie spring rolls and dipping sauce this week as part of our ...

Character Creation in English

Willow have been reading Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo in English. We created some characters ...

World Oceans Day

For Muddy Puddles Friday we used chalk to redesign the playground for World Oceans Day.

Mud paintings

We took advantage of the recent rain for this week’s Muddy Puddles task - mud ...

More clay!

The clay project comes to an end. They look fabulous!

Singing with Mr Hills

Willow love singing with Mr Hills every other Friday!

Electrical Night Lamps

In DT, Willow designed and decorated glass jars to be used as electrical night lamps ...

Clay Sculpting

This half term both Willow and Silver Birch have been working with clay in Art ...

Maths Day - Jelly Beans

To celebrate Maths we focused our learning around the book title How many jelly beans ...

World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day we all dressed in our pyjamas and decorated a spoon ...

Muddle Puddle Friday

This week the children were set a task of finding: 5 brown objects, 5 green ...

PE - Gymnastics

This half term our focus is gymnastics. The children have been focusing on creating a ...

Welcome back

Welcome back. I hope that you all had a great holiday. This half term our ...

Dazzle Days - DT

This week Willow have been completing our DT project. Our DT project has cross curricular ...

Music - Charanga

This half term our unit is Classroom Jazz. Our learning will be focused around two ...

Halloween

To celebrate Halloween the children participated in a break the rules day and dressed up ...

Young Shakespeare Company

Willow were very lucky to see Macbeth, performed by The Young Shakespeare Company. Next week ...

Fire Safety Talk

On Monday we received a visit from the Fire Service to deliver a talk on ...

Science - soluble or insoluble

This half term our topic is Properties and Changes in materials. This week the children ...

Music - Charanga

This half term our genre is Pop and our focus artist is Williams and the ...

Departure Day - Ancient Greeks

For our Departure Day we all dressed up as ancient Greeks, to set the mood ...

NSPCC - Pants are Private

During PSHE we reminded ourselves how to keep ourselves safe. We sang the Pantosaurus song ...

RE

This half term we have been exploring our new RE books and artefacts inside and ...

Reading

We have shared many books with Cherry Blossom this year. It has been a pleasure ...

Computing

This week in Willow class children have been coding using scratch to create an interactive ...

20's plenty campaign

The children in Willow talked to them about their 20's plenty campaign so far and ...

TreeTops

Our Year 6 leavers enjoyed a day exploring at TreeTops: sliding down the slides, crawling ...

Science (fossil)

Willow enjoyed learning about how fossils are formed and classifying different types of fossils including ...

Science departure

Willow class enjoyed their Now Press Play on evolution where they learnt about types of ...

Humanist UK

Willow class asked lots of questions and were curious to learn more about Humanist beliefs ...

Cricket

We had two members of Sicklinghall cricket club and a Yorkshire county cricketer leads us ...

Buddy time (Coronation)

Willow class enjoyed celebrating the coronation with their buddies in Cherry Blossom. Willow pupils supported ...

English

Willow class have been working on understanding the difference in grammatical structures and vocabulary used ...

Tom Palmer visit

We were very lucky to have local award wining author Tom Palmer visit us. He ...

Now Press Play

This week Willow enjoyed a Now Press Play experience where they were detectives investigating a ...

Science departure

This half term we are looking at animals including humans. This week we learnt about ...

DT

This half-term we have researched, designed, cooked and evaluated South American street food.

Goldsborough visit

Willow class visited Oak class at Goldsborough -it was great to spend time altogether. We ...

PHSE

Over the course of the week, to celebrate Neurodiveristy week Willow class explored a range ...

World Book Day

Willow class enjoyed reading the story Freedom Soup. We discussed the meaning of freedom and ...

Reading

Pupils organised cards to create an answer to 3 mark questions about The Railway Children ...

Science

The children in Year 5 and Year 6 have been studying living things in science ...

Reading

Willow class enjoyed reading to their buddies and friends in Cherry Blossom as part of ...

Canal and River Trust workshop (Topic/ PHSE)

Willow enjoyed a visit from the Canal and River Trust- it was a great start ...

Art

This week, we hosted a whole school art exhibition. The pupils enjoyed showing their parents ...

Buddy time

Year 6 children in Willow class enjoy spending time with their reception buddies in Year ...

Topic

This week pupils in Willow class completed their end of topic Quizziz on the IPads ...

Art

In Art, our focus this half-term is printing. We have studied the work of Andy ...

English

Willow have been working hard in English lessons completing a read write perform unit. We ...

Clay workshop

This week Willow were visited by a ceramicist for a clay workshop. All the pupils ...

Science

This week Willow class enjoyed a fun depature afternoon on our new science topic living ...

DT

This half-term we have researched, designed, produced and evaluated our own Christmas decoration.

Author visit

This week we were lucky to have a local author Pam Golden (Harrogate) came to ...

Muddy Puddle Friday

On a Friday, we take part in weekly outdoor learning. Willow have enjoyed a variety ...

Science

During our electricty topic, Willow have enjoyed making different circuits to see the impact of ...

Music

This half-term Willow are learning about Jazz music. They have been learning to perform the ...

Remembrance Day

This week Willow have enjoyed designing and producing pebbles as an act of remebrance. We ...

Science

This week for our science depature for our new topic of electricity the class enjoyed ...

Maths

Willow class have been working hard during Maths this half-term we have learnt about place ...

Young Shakespeare

This week, Willow class enjoyed Young Shakespeare's performance of Twelfth Night- it was brilliant! They ...

National Poetry Day

In Willow class, we celebrated National Poerty Day by writing and performing our own Kenning ...

Science dome

Willow class enjoyed their experience in the science dome. Inside, the dome we learnt about ...

Tom Palmer virtual book launch - Willow

Willow class took part in local author Tom Palmer's virtual book launch with Mr Dilly ...

Topic departure day- Willow

Willow class had a fantastic day with students from Goldsborough exploring Eden Camp. It was ...

Maths (wk/c 18th July) - Willow

In Maths this week, we have been solving math puzzles and we had a lesson ...

Production 'Pirates of the Curry Bean' (wk/c 11th July) - Willow

This week Willow class enjoyed performing their KS2 production 'Pirates of the Curry Bean' to ...

RE and Art (wk/c 4th July) - Willow

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

Sports Day (wk/c 27th June) - Willow

Sports day was a fantastic event building teamwork, collaboration and friendship. The children in Willow ...

Treetops - Willow- (wk/c 20th June)

The Year 6's had a great time climbing, sliding and exploring through the treetops this ...

Den building - Willow - (wk/c 13th June)

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

English (wk/c 13th June) - Willow

Wow! This week students have worked incredibly hard to write their own persuasive advert about ...

Topic departure day (wk/c 6th June ) - Willow

This half-term our geography topic is Island life in Asia. During our departure day pupils ...

Science (wk/c 23rd May) - Willow

In Science, we have been learnign abotu the life cycles of livin things. This week ...

Jubilee art (wk/c 16/05) - Willow

As part of celberations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee students produced thier own piece of ...

SATS party (wk/c 9th May) - Willow

This week the year 6's enjoyed an afternoon on the field making thier own ice-cream ...

PHSE (wk/c 2/5/2022) Willow

In PHSE, this week we had two magistrates visit us. We learnt about the role ...

Residential at Carlton Lodge (wk/c 4th April) Willow

The last week of the the term children in Willow class enjoyed going on residential ...

Easter egg hunt (wk/c 28/3/22) - Willow

Willow enjoyed taking part in the school Easter egg hunt today with the rest of ...

Den building (wk/c 21/03/22) Willow

On Monday afternoon, the class had a fantastic time working in teams to build their ...

PE (wk/c 14/03/22) Willow

This half-term our focus is developing our skills to use in handball. Today we played ...

RE (wk/c 7/3/22) - Willow

This half-term our key question is: What is most important to Christians and Humanists? We ...

Young Shakespeare workshop 8th March - Willow

We were very lucky to have Young Shakespeare come and visit our school. The actors ...

World Book Day 3rd March - Willow

We had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day. Our focus for the day was ...

PHSE (wk/c 7th February) Willow

In PHSE we celebrated Safer Internet Day, we considered what information we would trust online ...

English (wk/c 31/1/22) Willow

This week in English we began investigating the features of a biography. We worked together ...

Daniel Ingram-Brown author visit (wk/c 24/1/22) Willow

We had a fantastic day on Wednesday in Willow class as we had a very ...

PE (wk/c 17/01) - Willow

In PE this half-term we are learning about gymnastics this week we have learnt different ...

Science day (wk/c 10/01) - Willow

This week we celebrated Science by completing interesting and exciting experiments including a CSI investigation ...

Topic departure day (wk/c 3/01) - Willow

We had great fun taking part in a History to life workshop to launch our ...

Christmas cards (wk/c 13th December) - Willow

We had lots of fun making Christmas cards using oil pastels for our friends and ...

Christmas party (wk/c 6th December) - Willow

The highlight this week was our visit from Santa!!! In our class we enjoyed a ...

DT tent building (wk/c 13th December) - Willow

This half-term our DT project has been designing and creating a tent for a mountaineer ...

PHSE (wk/c 29th November) Willow

In PHSE this week. we have learnt about cyberbullying. As part of the lesson children ...

Yorkshire Geology Society virtual visit (wk/c 22nd November) Willow

On Friday afternoon, we were lucky to have an informative talk of Paul Hildreth from ...

Anti-Bullying week (wk/c 15th November) Willow

This week we took part in Anti-bullying week. On Monday, we all wore odd socks ...

Remembrance Day (wk/c 8th November) Willow

As part of our work to mark Remembrance Day in Art Willow class worked together ...

Den Building - Willow (wk/c 1st November)

On Thursday afternoon, the class had a fantastic time working in teams to build their ...

Halloween day - Willow (wk/c 18th October)

Today in Willow class we have had fantastic fun celebrating Halloween together. In English, children ...

Maths (wk/c 11th October) - Willow

This week in Maths we have been learning how to use column method to add ...

National Poetry Day (wk/c 4th October) - Willow

On Thursday, we celebrated National Poetry Day. First, the children watched a special video recorded ...

Science (wk/c 27th September) - Willow

This half term our science topic is materials and their properties. This week in science ...

Greek inspired art (wk/c 20th September) - Willow

Our art this half term is inspired by our topic Ancient Greece particularly Ancient Greek ...

Welcome back and departure day (autumn 1) - Willow

It is great to welcome all the children back after the summer holidays. This half ...

Circuits - Willow

In science we have started to investigate circuits. Our first investigation explored lightbulbs and how ...

Summer 2 Departure Day - Climate Change - Willow

This half term we will be looking at climate change and the effects of global ...

Battle of Hastings - Willow

We looked at an artistic depiction of the Battle of Hastings as part of our ...

Battle Cry

We have been exploring different battle cries in English over the past few weeks. We ...

Anglo-Saxon Art

In art we have been exploring different techniques from which we can create 3D art ...

Healthy Hearts - Willow

In Science, we have been learning how to keep healthy. This week we were looking ...

Viking Runes - Willow

Today in maths we were decoding some Viking runes. We have been working hard this ...

Leavers Hoodies - Willow

Our Year 6s received their leavers hoodies last week. How grown up do they look ...

Thank you Mrs Keyes!

We are very sad to have had to say good-bye to Mrs Keyes this past ...

Summer 1 Departure Day

This half-term we are learning all about the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. On our departure ...

Raging Rivers and The Water Cycle

During Spring 2 we learned all about rivers and the water cycle. Here are some ...

Fabulous fractions

In Maths lessons, we have continued our work on fractions. We have worked hard to ...

World Book Day 2021

We had a wonderful day exploring the story ‘At the Mountain’s Base’ by Traci Sorrell ...

What are we reading in Willow class?

We celebrated World Book Day during March 2021 - but what are we reading in ...

Spring 2 Departure day

This half term we are basing our English work on ‘The Explorer’ which is set ...

Shang Dynasty

During Spring 1 we learned all about the Shang Dynasty. Here are a few examples ...

Anti-Bullying Week November 2020

This week we have looked at anti-bullying. What is bullying? What do we do if ...

Writing in Willow - November 2020

We are using cohesive techniques to improve our writing in Willow. This includes adverbial phrases ...

Maths in Willow class

Today we looked at using what we already know to hep us find out more ...

Mr Morris Lessmore Book Making

Willow class carried out some book making using Mr Morris Lessmore as our inspiration.

Autumn 2 Departure Day

Today we launched our World War Two topic. Our 'departure day' involved exploring the language ...

Harvest

Here are some of our Harvest drawings which were shared during our Harvest Festival in ...

Portrait Drawings

In the Autumn term we worked on portrait drawing linking with our PSHE topic of ...

Relax Kids

'Relax Kids' is really important to us at school. Move, play, stretch, feel, breathe, believe ...

The Colour Monster

During the Autumn term we explored our emotions and created these emotion jars. Inside we ...

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