Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• A Super Sports Day 2019

  Wed 26 Jun 2019 Mr Phoenix

  We all enjoyed a super sports day, with team games and activities followed by flat races at the end of the afternoon. Nursery began the day with their sports and balancing races. They especially enjoyed the egg and spoon race!
  Well done to everyone for taking part with such great determination and also sportsmanship. There were many examples of children keeping going to finish their races and activities, and all the children were brilliant at cheering each other on and supporting each other.
  In the end, it was Yellow Team (Nidderdale) who gained the most points and claimed the Sports Day Cup.

  
  Have a look at the gallery for more sports day pictures here. http://www.hampsthwaite.n-yorks.sch.uk/sports-day-2019/

  

• Y5_6 Residential 2019

  Mon 20 May 2019 Mr Phoenix
  Information about our Y5/6 residential visit will be posted every day on the website, to keep you up-to-date with what's happening and see some of the activities we've been doing. Please go to the Gallery page for pictures and news, here:  http://www.hampsthwaite.n-yorks.sch.uk/y5_6-residential-2019/ 

• Space Camp

  Fri 29 Mar 2019 Mr Phoenix

  Our Year 5 and Year 6 children had a great time staying overnight at school for Space Camp! Developed with funding from the Stephen Hawking foundation, and following training from staff at Richard Taylor school, several schools in our YCST MAT have been hosting Space Camp experiences. Children at Hampsthwaite thoroughly enjoyed their Space Camp sleepover, learning about different aspects of outer space, the experience of astronauts, the stars, telescopes and much more. We were joined by St Aidans’ staff Mr Park and his colleague, who shared with the children the excitement of stargazing and the different constellations. We also watched the International Space Station pass overhead. Space Camp was a really memorable learning experience and all the children taking part have had a great time.

  

• School Open

  Fri 01 Feb 2019 Mr Phoenix

  School and Nursery were open as usual on Friday 1st February in the snowy weather. Parents were advised to travel carefully in to school.

  The children made the most of their morning playtime to enjoy the snow. It's amazing how many snowballs and mini-snowmen they can make in 15 minutes!

   

  Mr Phoenix

  

• Young Voices 2019

  Wed 09 Jan 2019 Mr Phoenix

  Our junior children had a fantastic time at the Young Voices concert in Sheffield on 9th January 2019. It was wonderful to be able to contribute to the spectacle of performance, dance and singing alongside professional artists and 4500 children from other schools across the North of England. The Young Voices event is uplifting, encouraging and inspirational, with songs and life-stories which teach us to believe in ourselves, care for our world and enjoy life and singing. It is certainly an event that the chidlren will remember for many years to come.

  Have a look at a short video that captures something of the spirit and atmosphere of Young Voices, along with photos from the evening, in our Gallery pages.

  http://www.hampsthwaite.n-yorks.sch.uk/young-voices-2019/

• KS2 Polar Express Christmas show

  Thu 20 Dec 2018 Mr Phoenix

  Our junior children put on a fabulous show of The Polar Express. Filled with great acting, amazing dancing and wonderful singing, it was a real festive spectacle from start to finish. All children were able to make the most of their talents and interests - whether this was in the Hot Chocolate dance with Mrs Nunns-Tidman's choreography, the acting parts, musical and choir performances arranged by Mrs Borchard or being in Mr Phoenix' scenery group. This will surely go down as a very memorable show, with the message of the true spirit of Christmas being in our hearts.

   

  Have a look at the Gallery for more pictures of The Polar Express.

  http://www.hampsthwaite.n-yorks.sch.uk/the-polar-express-2018/

  

• Y1 and Y2 Little Fir Tree performance

  Mon 17 Dec 2018 Mr Phoenix

  Children from Year 1 and Year 2 performed the story of the Little Fir Tree - a small tree who felt tiny and worthless compared to the other big forest trees. When she was picked by the woodcutter to become a Christmas Tree, her outlook changed as she learned the story of the first Christmas and brought Christmas joy to children in hospital.

  The children really enjoyed the story, and being all different characters from trees and forest animals to children and nurses - and the traditional Christmas story characters too.

   

  Well done everone!

   

  Have a look for more pictures in the Gallery.

  http://www.hampsthwaite.n-yorks.sch.uk/the-little-fir-tree-2018/

  

• Reception Christmas

  Fri 14 Dec 2018 Mr Phoenix

  The joy of Christmas was clear to see in the faces of our Reception children as they acted out the nativity story and sang songs from the 'Nursery Rhyme Nativity'. They really enjoyed being on the stage and performing to a delighted audience. After the nativity story, they invited their parents back into class for an open session to share activites, Christmas books and mince pies.

   

  Find more pictures in the Gallery.

  http://www.hampsthwaite.n-yorks.sch.uk/reception-nativity-2018/

  

• Lost Words Art Project

  Fri 19 Oct 2018 Mrs Bellerby

  Children with a special interest in Art from our KS2 classes joined an exciting project to explore nature and the words we use, making a published book and taking part in a professional Art Gallery presentation.

   

  The Lost Words of Nidderdale Project was inspired by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris's 'The Lost Words', a book written in reaction to the news that nature words are disappearing from children's dictionaries. Their beautifully illustrated book of poems seeks to give some of those words back. 

   

  Commissioned by the Upper Nidderdale Landscape Partnership and Nidderdale Visual Arts, artist Jane Carlisle Bellerby worked with a group of KS2 children from Hampsthwaite CE Primary School, encouraging them to take note of and make creative responses to the nature they came across in Fishpond Wood, Bewerley. The aim of the project was to encourage the children to be active participants in researching the nature around them; to be investigators, artists, poets and as a consequence the custodians and safe keepers of local knowledge. 

   

  The children's work was realised in mixed media: paper stained green with wild garlic leaves, watercolour studies and sun-printed silk marked with woodland rubbings. All was embellished with gold leaf, emphasising the children's observations that "nature is treasure", 'nature is precious." Alongside pictures acrostic and shape poems were written, describing that which was seen, heard, felt, whilst also using some Yorkshire dialect terms, words which were new to the children. 

   

  Like many grassroots campaigns across the country, the project was able to supply copies of 'The Lost Words' and accompanying guide by the John Muir Trust to Pateley Bridge Library and the libraries of all of the primary schools in Nidderdale. Throughout the project author Robert Macfarlane sent messages of support via social media, which he kindly allowed to be used in The Lost Words of Nidderdale project booklet;

   

  "Thank you Nidderdale for your support. How brilliant to see so many children making, and also out exploring and looking. So many smiling faces and intensely engaged expressions. What glowing work the children have made. I love the landscape-mirages made by the washes, and the gold scintillating within them. Wonderful to see." 

   

  The project culminated in an exhibition at number 6 studio gallery in Pateley Bridge which ran alongside the NiddFest literature and nature festival in June 2018, and the work of the project will be shared with local schools at a training event in January 2019.

  

• Harvest Service 2018

  Thu 11 Oct 2018 Mr Phoenix

  Our Harvest theme this year was Water, following the near-drought experienced in the summer. In our Harvest Service, we highlighted the importance of saving water, and reflected on what life is like for the 10% of children in the world who do not have access to flowing fresh water supplies.

  
  The infant children had great fun telling the story of the ‘Tiger who came to Tea’ where he drinks all the water in the tap and Sophie cannot have a bath because there is no water left. Our junior children presented ideas on saving water and shared poems and drama based around the lives of those who do not have access to fresh water.

  Choir sang the song ‘A short walk to freedom’ which tells of the difference a single tap can make in a  village without water.

  
  Thank you to all who joined us for our service.

   

  Have a look at pictures of our Harvest Service in the gallery, where you can also listen to our choir's singing.

  http://www.hampsthwaite.n-yorks.sch.uk/harvest-service-2018/