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

• Maths Challenge Winners

  Fri 15 Feb 2013
   Very well done to Finlay, Freddie, Louis and Robert for their excellent performance in the Harrogate Grammar School maths challenge. A superb team, they worked solidly through all four rounds to claim First Prize against over 20 other participating schools. Their concentration and cooperation was fantastic, and their ability to think around maths problems and solve a wide range of challenges efficiently was remarkable. They even scored 100% in round two! We are all very proud of their achievement, and are delighted to be able to display the Maths Challenge shield in our school. 

• Lent has begun - leading up to our Easter Service on 26th March

  Tue 12 Feb 2013

  Our Easter Service at church will be a highlight of our Easter celebrations this term.

  In school, Lent began with Pancake Tuesday as the Nursery children enjoyed mixing up pancakes, running pancake races, watching Mrs Eaman flipping pancakes, and, of course, eating pancakes!

  Over the next few weeks, we will be learning about the Easter story through collective worship and RE in school. All the children will visit the church to learn more about Easter from Rev Garry on Friday 22nd March, before we all join together for our Easter Service at the church, on Tuesday 26th March.

  During the Easter Service, children from each class will present performances linked to aspects of the Easter story, and we will sing and worship together, with parents and carers invited too. We hope many parents and carers will be able to join us for this special occasion. 

• Chinese New Year

  Fri 08 Feb 2013

  The children had a great day celebrating Chinese New Year. Unicorns class have been working on oriental artwork, numbers and stories, while Nursery and Team Dragon have role play Chinese cafes, dressing up, Chinese artwork, lanterns and snakes. The children have even been counting in Cantonese!
  At lunchtime we shared a lovely Chinese meal together, with noodles, rice, chicken and beansprouts. As well as Mrs Shields' superb cooking, the children enjoyed opening Fortune Cookies and sharing prawn crackers, to the sound of Chinese music in the background.

  Thank you to Mrs Shields and Mrs Lazenby for working so hard on the food preparation, and Mrs Harris and Mrs Addyman for their help in making this a very exciting and memorable meal.

  Have a look at the photos in the Gallery!

• Excitement about Fairtrade!

  Tue 29 Jan 2013
  Fairtrade expert Liz Roodhouse visited school, involving all the Junior children in workshops and activities throughout the morning. By the end of the morning, there was a definite buzz of excitement about Fairtrade, and the things we can do to make the world that little bit better for others. Working with our Fairtrade committee (of children, staff, governors and parents) at lunchtime, Liz gave us lots of inspiring ideas on how to develop Fairtrade further in our school. The children will be busy writing letters, organising events, making things and planning ahead for Fairtrade fortnight - as well as spreading the word about Fairtrade - in preparation for an action-packed whole-school Fairtrade Day on March 4th.

• African Drumming and Ukulele Concert

  Fri 25 Jan 2013
  Everyone had a fantastic musical day on Friday. Y5/6 performed at a Ukulele concert in Boroughbridge High School, whilst the rest of the school enjoyed African Drumming Workshops with Alison from Drums Agogo in Harrogate. Have a look at the Gallery section to see photos and videos of the children's music making.

• How the snow enhances our curriculum!

  Tue 22 Jan 2013
  As well as playing with snow to explore its wonderful properties and characteristics, our Nursery children have been colouring and painting on the snowy ground. Reception and Year 1 have tried out writing on snow - and even practising their spellings in the snow! 
  Children of all ages have had a great time playing in the snow during breaktime and lunchtime too. Through brilliant teamwork, they have created a whole range of snowmen and other creatures - even a tiny snow mouse with an icicle tail crawling up a tree trunk!
  In Collective Worship, we thought about why we love to make snowmen and how we always seem to try and make them as lifelike as we can. In other words, we try to make them 'in our image'. We compared this to the Bible verse that says 'God made us in His image', and thought about how, although we are all unique (like our snowmen) we all have the image of God in us, through the likes of the love, care, kindness, joy and peace that we can all share.

• School was CLOSED Monday 21st January

  Mon 21 Jan 2013

  Monday 21st January: Due to dangerous road conditions, school was closed on Monday. It is important to consider the safety of both staff and parents travelling by road to and from school, and unfortunately as the forecast was for conditions to worsen during the day, I took the decision to close. Text messages were sent to parents in the morning at 8am, and Stray FM and NYCC were also informed.

  Owing to the road conditions, I also decided to inform Young Voices that we would be unable to attend Tuesday night's concert. I felt it too high a risk to take pupils out on the snowy and icy roads. I knew the children would be disappointed, because they have been working so hard to learn their words and practise their singing. However, the likelihood was that the concert could be cancelled anyway, as I expected many other schools to be in a similar position. The Manchester concert was postponed earlier in the week, so I was hopeful that the Sheffield concert would also be rearranged for another date.    
  Mr Phoenix.

• Young Voices Concert postponed

  Mon 21 Jan 2013
  We can now confirm that the Young Voices concert that was scheduled for Tuesday 22nd January has now been postponed to a later date. The organisers assure us that all tickets will be transferrable. We look forward to learning of the new date, and will inform all parents as soon as we have any further information.

• Snowy weather is forecast

  Fri 11 Jan 2013
  We will endeavour to keep the school open if at all possible. However, should we need to make an emergency closure, we will inform all parents by text message before 8am. Any closure will also be announced on Stray FM (97.2) and on the County Council website at www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=9133

• A great start to our new term

  Wed 09 Jan 2013
  We have had a lovely start to our new school term. All the children have arrived back at school eagerly and happily, all smiles, ready to work hard and get stuck into their new terms’ themes for learning.
  We have much to look forward to in the coming weeks, and our website is one way we will keep you all informed about the things we are doing.
  Here's to a peaceful, happy and successful New Year!