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Today, the children have been working collaboratively to answer a range of fluency and reasoning questions on 3D shapes. They have written some excellent explanations to justify their answers – well done everyone!

Today we have compared Great Ayton to Chembakolli in India.

We looked at videos and picture of the two places to see the similarities and differences between the two towns.

The children noticed many things that were the same and many differences….

In Great Ayton we are very lucky because…

On Thursday, we walked round our village finding out about Great Ayton schools.  We found the site of the old Edward Kitching School, then we walked down to Marwood and found out a little bit about its history – a big thank you to Ian Pearce and the Great Ayton History Society.  After that, we…

Although there is much to celebrate about the Roseberry family, we are always mindful that we could make improvements. I see many of you every day and know that our great relationship enables the majority of you to tell me what’s going well and alert me to when there may be a problem that needs…

On Thursday morning, we ventured into the village looking at all the buildings that are, or used to be schools.

This trip wouldn’t have been nearly as exciting without the fabulous, background knowledge from members of our community. A big thank you to Ian Pearce and all of his friends at Great…

At the beginning of the week, we used a variety of different musical instruments to help us understand and investigate how to change the volume and pitch of a sound…

What a wonderful day we had today at Ryedale Museum.

In the Victorian school, we did some Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic with a very strict teacher!  We used ink and a quill, and a slate to record our work.  At play time, we even played with some Victorian toys.

In the Victorian cottage,…

Today we became Victorian children at Ryedale Folk Museum. The children had a fabulous time completing their household chores, washing the clothes and they even had a lesson in a Victorian school!

This week, we have started work around our text, ‘Cosmic – it’s one giant leap for all boy-kind’.  The children are really enjoying the story and they have already written character profiles about the main character, Liam.

It was a pleasure to return to school on Tuesday – adults look well rested and children seem to have grown during the holiday! This term will be another busy one, packed with super learning activities and enrichment opportunities as well as Sports Morning, visits, Year Six swimming lessons, the…

This week, we got the tarps out to see if we could make shelters.  There was some great teamwork!  Some of the children also chose to do a bit of litter picking to help tidy up the school field, fantastic job!  Thank you also to RAFT, who have bought us some squirrel-proof bird feeders.  We think…

This afternoon, children in Years Four, Five and Six explored E Safety. We talked about how to keep ourselves safe online. Take a look at what they learned…