Today Y5 grilled our local MP Stephanie Peacock. She attended a 45 minute Q&A session in the school hall. We were all really proud of the mature, responsible approach from our children. Stephanie commented, that hopefully in the Hall was a future Member of Parliament for Barnsley East! What did…

Good afternoon Class 11, I hope you’re all enjoying the snow and making the most of snow day number 2! I’d love to see or hear about how you’ve all been keeping busy in the snow. If you’re running out of ideas apart from the obvious snowball fights and building…

This term our topic is The Battle of the Ages. Year 5 have been battling it out between classes this week on behalf of the Ancient Egyptians and Mayans. Class 11 were battling for the Ancient Egyptians and researching the question: ‘What happened after death?’ Their task was to create…

Class 11 have worked extremely hard over the Autumn term to design and create their own stop motion studio, which then became the set of their very own animation movies! They used both the stop motion and iMovie app to produce these and the time has come to share these…

Who will take the crown? The battle of the bands between Class 11 and Class 13 maths has already begun. But who will be the winner at the end? Let the times table practise commence!  

Since starting the new half term, Class 11 have began the construction of their stop motion sets. Over the past few weeks we have developed lots of new skills including accurate measuring, sawing and hammering. What has been your favourite part of the process so far? What are you still…

Today we visited the Town Hall to meet the Mayor of Barnsley. We grilled him in the Council Chamber and found out lots about democracy in local government. Councillor Ennis was a great host and all the children got a chance to ask him a question just like at a…

After looking at local government in Barnsley, we will begin to look at how modern central government began all those years ago in Runnymede in 1215. What can you tell me about the Magna Carta and how it changed England forever?

After half term we will be visiting the Town Hall and speaking to the Mayor of Barnsley, Cllr Jeff Ennis. This week we will be preparing questions for him to answer. Are there any questions we should ask him?

This week your homework task is to recap the division method. To help you with this I have set you all a little challenge… You must fill in the multiplication grid and time yourself to see how long it takes you to ACCURATELY complete it all! Remember to post a…