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

• 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/

• Videos about our schools Trust, YCST

  Tue 02 Oct 2018

  Children from all the schools in our Multi-Academy Trust, YCST, have been busy helping produce a set of videos all about the schools in the Trust and the values we share.

  Have a look at the videos on the YCST page of our school website here.

  Hope you enjoy them!