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Year 4
Year 4

Year 4 spellings – week of 16 November

This week’s spellings – replace the words in the list below, one per line, then press Publish.

Year 3

Remembrance Day worship

This week, we held a very special and moving collective worship to mark Remembrance Day. We reflected on the lives of those who have…

Year 5

Our Famous Fives use maps to find the location of South America

Nursery

We Will Remember Them

The Hungry Caterpillars have been learning about Remembrance Day. The children found out about wearing poppies to remember soldiers who have been injured and…

Year 2

Harvest Festival

It was lovely to celebrate the Harvest Festival with a special service at Tankersley St Peter’s Church. Each class performed a song and a…

Year 4

Our wonderful performance about the Tudors

The year 4 pupils have been learning about the Tudors this half term and in their music lesson they rehearsed a short performance about…

Year 3

Our Stone Age bracelets

We are really enjoying learning about the Stone Age and we created bracelets inspired by Stone Age jewellery using clay. We looked at archaeological…

Year 3

We love playing the djembes

Our topic in music lessons this half term is West African music and really enjoy listening to different musical performances and finding out about…

Visits to places of worship (RE) · Year 3

Bishop Pete’s Visit

Bishop Pete visited our school for a wonderful morning of worship, music and Bible study. He met pupils and staff, chatted with members of…

Year 2

The Gunpowder Plot

Today in our history lesson we learnt about the reasons why Guy Fawkes conspired to kill King James 1. In groups we sequenced the…

Letters home

Headteacher’s letter – 6 November 2026

This week’s letter from the Headteacher, with news, reminders and dates for the week ahead. Download the letter (PDF)

Nursery · Reception

The Hungry Caterpillars and Shining Stars have enjoyed learning more about the meaning of Remembrance Sunday!

One of our school grandparents kindly came to share her knowledge and her own family members medals from when he served in one of…