Today we will be starting our activities for this year’s Arts Week. We will be celebrating the differences that make us all special and unique! Please keep checking the blog to see what’s happening in school during the rest of the week.

Today’s outstanding performance at The Lamproom Theatre was the culmination of 9 months hard work on our production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’.  Every cast member has given 100% throughout the whole rehearsal process and this was never more evident than this afternoon.  We would like to say a big…

We have organised a visit to watch our wonderful drama club perform the Shakespeare play ‘The Merchant of Venice’. We have a limited number of tickets left which are available to pupils in years 3-6. If you would like to come along and watch the performance please see Mrs Robinson…

This is our latest song to learn for our next performance at Elsecar music festival. All children involved have a set of lyrics to support them in learning.  

Rehearsals are now well under way and the play is starting to look like it will be another great success! Only half a term to go and then we will be performing in our usual venue in Barnsley, The Lamproom Theatre. Here are a few photographs from this week’s rehearsal.

During this half term Miss Lloyd’s class are looking at the Shakespeare play “The Comedy of Errors” and are exploring different ways to tell the story.  This afternoon we are starting to create 9 freeze frames that symbolise the tale Egeon tells Solinus.  Why was Egeon in Ephesus? What was…

This afternoon Y1 have been connecting the joints to the bones. Then using papier-mâché to make them strong. Lots of great discussion describing the materials and techniques used to make our structure. What have you found difficult? What could you do to make the task easier?

Today in Y1 we have been designing posters in our roles as stewards of the planet. What do you think so far?

In Y2 we have been looking at the story of the life of the great leader Moses. We have chosen important landmarks in his story and presented these as freeze frames. Can you remember what each image tells us?