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Year 1 have been busy this week learning about Autumn and some children went for a wonderful Autumn walk with their families. We have started to find out about the artist Andy Goldsworthy and have been learning how to draw…

The children in 3YN have had a wonderful time this week creating their very own Humpty Dumpty in the creative area. They carefully used glue, paper, and other materials to bring their character to life, using their fine motor skills…

This week in 2YN, the children have been busy creating animals from our topic book Dear Zoo using brightly coloured tissue paper. They thoroughly sticking pieces of tissue paper to bring their favourite animals from the story to life, developing…

Year 6 have been learning about persuasive writing this week, considering toolkit features like feel good adjectives, exaggeration and directly addressing the reader. Year 6 have written fantastic pieces persuading a reader to visit Whitby. In maths lessons Year 6…

Pupils in Year 5 have loved getting into drafting and publishing their ‘warning tale’ stories. Your child’s main character is told to not go to their den because of an imminent volcanic eruption (our topic learning) but as you may…

In Year 4 this week, the children have started to plan and write out their story of a disaster scene from the Railway Children. Pupils loved watching the clip from the Railway Children Film as inspiration for their writing and…

This week, Year 3 have enjoyed using place value counters in maths to explore adding and subtracting one, ten and a hundred to three-digit numbers. Hazel and Hawthorn classes really enjoyed their DT days using their peeling and cutting skills…

Year 2 enjoyed sharing their reading books with their parents during our Year 2 Reading GLEE this week. The children are working hard during their afternoon work to name and label the continents and oceans that they learnt earlier this…

Year 1 have been working hard on our Heaton routines and making sure we are always showing STARS to help us stay focused. In literacy we have been sequencing the beginning, middle and ending of the Gruffalo story and learning…

What an exciting week it has been in Reception! We’ve been busy exploring space, rockets, and astronauts through a range of fun and creative activities. The children have loved building rockets using different materials — from life-sized rockets outdoors to…

This week in 3YN, the children have been busy exploring numbers through nursery rhymes. They have really enjoyed learning “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive” using their fingers to count along and beginning to say…

The children in 2YN are continuing to settle beautifully into their class. This week, they’ve been exploring mark making in a variety of exciting ways. Using pencils, crayons and more, they have been enjoying creating their own pictures. It has…

What an amazing week for Year 6! We visited the seaside town of Whitby; pupils explored the ancient historic Whiby Abbey, walked down the 199 steps into the town, took a boat ride into the sea, visited the spooky Dracula…

Y5 children have been enjoying many different learning opportunities and have had a fantastic GLEE event when parents and carers visited classrooms. This week, we have shared our Story Project book entitled The Colour Thief helping us explore our emotions,…

This week in the Science topic on sound, Year 4 have enjoyed conducting and recording experiments to explore pitch.  In English, pupils have been learning the story of The Selfish Giant, learning the meaning of the ambitious vocabulary used, and…

Year 3 have really enjoyed studying the artwork of Jackie Rough and practising replicating her style of sketching. The children have drawn features of a woodland setting which they will use to create a final piece inspired by the story…

Year 2 have had a great week learning about the explorer, Sir Francis Drake, who discovered new places including California. The children have worked hard in English to learn our portal story – Mr Benn and the Red Knight. They…

Year 1 were excited about spending time in the woodlands for our community day. We worked together to collect lots of different natural materials to create our class names. We have also enjoyed inviting our parents into school to find…

The weather hasn’t stopped Reception from enjoying outdoor learning this week! The children have been full of excitement as they explored our outdoor spaces. While sweeping up the fallen leaves, they worked hard on developing their gross motor skills. It…

The children in 3YN have been thoroughly enjoying their exciting new nursery rhyme topic, diving into classic rhymes through fun, hands-on activities. They have been super creative making their own twinkly stars, adding glitter to bring “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”…

The children in 2YN are continuing to settle in well to their new class. They are beginning to feel happy and confident as they explore all the different areas of the room. The children have been trying lots of new…

Year 6 have really enjoyed starting to learn about electricity in Science, building circuits and drawing circuit diagrams. Pupils will create a circuit for their lighthouse models. Year 6 have also begun their ukulele lessons every Monday, pupils will continue…

It has been a great first full week in Year 5. Together we have enjoyed our community session in the woodlands creating beautiful letters out of natural materials. We have written amazing poems about a volcanic eruption, focusing on personification,…

Year 4 have had an amazing week. Pupils thoroughly enjoyed the trip to Saltaire and the journey on the steam train. They loved how the steam train experience differed from the electric steam train thus helping them to plan their…

Year 3 have written some fantastic poems this week using prepositions and alliteration to describe animals in a woodland setting. We have also started our Geography topic and the children had a go at drawing a map of our school.…

Year 2 have become explorers this week. They have used a map to travel around the world. By working together, they successfully named and labelled the continents and oceans. The children have enjoyed using the Base 10 this week to…

It has been a pleasure to welcome the children into Reception for their first full week. They’ve been settling in beautifully, continuing to learn the Heaton routines and building friendships with their new classmates. This week, we introduced our exciting…

Our 3YN children have had a fantastic start to the year, settling in beautifully and becoming familiar with their new surroundings. Each day they are growing in confidence, learning routines, and feeling comfortable in their new environment. It’s been heartwarming…

Our 2YN children have had a lovely start to their time with us, settling in with lots of smiles and cuddles. We know it can be a big step for little ones – and their families – so we’re very…

Year 1 have worked extremely hard this week. They have been practicing our Heaton routines to help them become great learners. In science pupils have enjoyed looking at the different seasons and thinking carefully about suitable clothing matched with the…

Year 6 have had a fantastic first week back in school. Year 6 have begun to enjoy their new class novel Room 13 set in Whitby. Year 6 also began to look at lighthouses, they built their models ready to…

Pupils have made a fabulous start to Year 5. In small teams, we have made mini vinegar and bicarbonate erupting volcanoes in the woodland to launch our Natural Disasters topic work. We have also made mini 3D elephant models with…

Year 4 have had an amazing start to school. They have immersed themselves in our Victorian topic ready for our school trip to Saltaire next week. They have created great pieces of train artwork and are eager to find similarities…

Year 3 have had a fantastic start to the year. The children loved foraging for blackberries on the school field and then using these to make a class crumble. They also learnt how to peel and cut apples using the…

The children have made a fantastic start to Year 2 this week and have all settled back in well to their Heaton routines. They have all enjoyed being in their new classrooms, with their new teachers, showing their STARS. The…

Children have made an amazing start to the year and have shown great attitude to their learning in the first week back at school. They have loved reading their book bag books to their new teachers, showing off their phonics…

It has been a real pleasure welcoming our new Reception children this week. They’ve made a fantastic start, settling in beautifully and approaching each new experience with curiosity and enthusiasm. The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring their new classrooms and…

This week Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed their sessions in the woodlands; pupils have made chapattis and enjoyed dhal, they have also taken part in archery and eaten smores, we know they will miss this amazing learning space. Next week…

Year 5 are so excited this week to visit Beckfoot Upper Heaton for some taster sessions. Pupils enjoyed basketball in the PE hall, Science, DT sewing pencil cases, Art making 3d lizards, and even Drama! Year 5 have also enjoyed…

Year 3 pupils enjoyed sports day this week. They engaged in a variety of sporting activities including javelin, an obstacle course and a relay race. It was fantastic to see all children supporting their peers and showing our Heaton values.…

Year 1 pupils have shone in Literacy, where their instruction writing for making crispy cakes demonstrates just how much progress they have all made this year. We are all so proud of them! Highlights this week have included; in science…

Reception had a fantastic Sports Day this week! It was wonderful to see so many children and parents getting involved and enjoying the activities together. The field was buzzing with excitement as we rotated around a variety of fun sports…

This week in Nursery, the children have been busy exploring a range of fun and educational activities. In our fine motor area, they particularly enjoyed threading — creating beautiful patterns and imaginative pieces of pretend jewellery. The children have also…

This week, the children have continued to enjoy a variety of colour-related activities. They’ve loved making marks using different tools and materials and have been eager to talk about the patterns and pictures they’ve created. As part of our ongoing…

This week Year 6 have wowed us with their performance; beautiful singing, ukulele playing, super speeches and such a lot of energy dancing! We are so proud of Year 6; their SATs results were amazing! Year 6 have completed their…

Year 5 are so excited this week as the butterflies have hatched from the caterpillars in each classroom! Year 5 are learning about life cycles in their science lessons and watching these butterflies transform has supported their understanding. Year 5…

Year 4 have continued with their topic work learning about the Ancient Romans this week. They have been learning the reasons that the Roman’s invaded Britain, including power, minerals and natural resources. They have also written about Boudicca, a Celtic…

This week Year 3 pupils have learnt to retell a non-fiction explanation text about the role of an optometrist. They have unpicked the class wagoll to find toolkit features that they will be able to use when writing their own…

This week in Year 2, we’ve been embracing creativity and curiosity across the curriculum. In art, the children created striking layered puffins using black and white paper, inspired by paper layering techniques. Our handwriting lessons have taken a leap forward…

We have continued to explore the start of division and multiplication using cubes and creating equal groups – lots of times. We have also thought about the language that goes with these types of Mathematics problems, share, groups of, lots…

Reception, we have been developing our pouring and filling skills through exciting water play activities.Using jugs and watering cans, the children have been carefully filling a variety of containers while exploring key concepts such as empty, half full, and full. This hands-on experience…

This week in 3-Year Nursery, the children have been deepening their understanding of journeys, with a special focus on buses. They’ve learned the Makaton sign for “bus” and have enjoyed singing and signing along to The Wheels on the Bus.…

This week, our 2-Year Nursery children have been busy exploring the colour orange through a wide range of fun and hands-on learning experiences! We were also delighted to welcome parents and carers to our end-of-year nursery celebration. It was lovely…

This week Year 6 have continued to learn their performance parts, our cheerleaders have learnt their routine and can’t wait to share it! Year 6 have retrieved their knowledge about the Windrush this week, marking the anniversary; pupils have sketched…

Year 5 have really enjoyed their final Tech We Can sessions this week, they used mats with sensors to move a robot, following a map. Year 5 have also started to learn about rivers, noting the different stages of a…

Year 4 really enjoyed their Roman Day on the school field where they learnt different battle tactics of Roman soldiers. Their session ended with a ‘battle’ between the Roman Army and the Celts – such a fantastic way to bring…

Year 3 enjoyed completing their DT project this week. They loved having parent volunteers to help support their sewing skills and all children produced high quality cloth books using applique. In literacy, pupils have written a stimulus piece of writing…

This week, Year 2 children tested their directional language skills when playing partner games (clockwise, anti-clockwise, half-turn, one-quarter-turn, three-quarter-turn). They immersed themselves in the re-enactment of the rescue tale based on the core text ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Rescue’. They acted…

Year 1 have loved creating 3D paper houses (the houses that the three little wolves from our story live in) . The children used just folding skills and carefully listened to and watched instructions.  They were so good at following…

This week, Reception had some very exciting visitors! A judge from the Great Yorkshire Show came to see the wonderful vegetables we’ve been growing and to learn all about the fantastic work we’ve been doing in class. The judge was…

This week in 3YN, the children have been deepening their understanding of journeys. They’ve explored the different ways we travel across land, air, and sea, and have been learning all about maps — what they are, what they look like,…

This week, our 2-year-old nursery children have been exploring the colour green! They’ve enjoyed a variety of fun, hands-on activities focused on all things green — from matching and naming green objects to pouring and filling with different containers. The…

This week, Year 3 enjoyed using drama techniques such as Conscience Alley to deepen their understanding of a Warning Tale. This technique allowed them to develop their oracy skills by trying to decide and justify whether the main character should…

This week, Year 2 children got competitive! We checked their timetable facts, and they practiced their 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables, ready for Year 3. They also started joining letters, and so far, we know how to join…

Year 1 have continued to consider different materials and which ones are good for making houses. This links brilliantly to our Literacy, in which three little foxes build houses and the big bad rabbit knocks them done. Children also loved…

This week in Reception we have been practicing their collaging skills. The children have been carefully scrunching the paper and gluing it onto the paper to create their very own giant beanstalks. In literacy we have been focusing on adjectives…

This week 3-year nursery have continued to develop their cutting skills by drawing around and cutting out the shapes.  To deepen children’s knowledge on four 2D shapes (square, rectangle circle and a triangle), children have been manipulating the paly dough…

This week, 2-year nursery have focused on the colour blue and the children have joined in with the different activities relating to the colour blue. They have been practicing threading the blue cotton reels, matching blue objects to the blue…

This week Year 6 have begun their new design technology project, creating a soft toy using sewing skills. Pupils have sketched a variety of animals and have then chosen their final design and begun to cut the material pieces. We…

Year 5 have enjoyed discovery sessions at Belle Vue Girls’ Academy this week, enjoying music and science experiments! Year 5 have also enjoyed a visit to our woodlands where they have observed filtering, sieving, evaporation and even enjoyed watching irreversible…

Year 3 have had a great week which started with a dhol playing session to celebrate Eid. Pupils enjoyed participating in the session and learning to play beats on the dhol.  We also had some exciting visitors from BAFTA who…

Year 2 children returned to another exciting week full of experiences and celebrations. They enjoyed their Eid celebration dance and their Eid lunch together with their school community. They used the ‘Let’s say’ drama technique to embed new vocabulary of…

The Year 1 week started with Eid celebrations including a special lunch and then a dancing workshop with Dhol drummers. On top of this children have shone during their Phonic screens through out the week. During Literacy children have been…

Reception have continued their learning through the story ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. This week we have focused on retelling the story and drawing our favourite characters. To further support writing development children wrote a sentence about their favourite character.  Reception…

3 Year Nursery have had a very exciting week continuing their learning on ‘journey’s’ focusing on the story ‘Duck in The Truck.’ Children have retold the story in many ways, with masks, costumes and using the small world tray. The…

This week 2-year nursery have started their topic ‘colours’. The children have been matching yellow objects to yellow pictures. They have been practicing their fine motor skills by posting cards, using large tweezers to pick up objects and using thick…

We were absolutely thrilled to welcome the Young BAFTA Roadshow with Place2Be to Beckfoot Heaton this week to march the launch of their 2025 tour. As the very first stop on this exciting national programme, our school was thrilled with…

This week, Year 6 have begun their new topic looking at Evolution and Classification. Pupils have chosen an animal to research about and begun to write a non-fiction report about coming across this creature in the wild. Year 6 have…

Year 5 have started their new topic all about Spain. Pupils have plotted Europe on a map of the World, then found Spain in the continent of Europe and included rivers, mountains and main cities. Pupils have also enjoyed Spanish…

Year 3 have had a fantastic start to the half term. They have used drama techniques to role play parts of the new story they are learning, to help recall the events in the story and character feelings.  This week…

What a wonderful week our Year 2 children have had! They started the week with various puffin facts in English, helping them recognize these birds by their appearance. In Topic, they learned the features of the seaside and identified various…

Year 1 have had a super start to this half term. We have written lovely Summer acrostic poems thinking about ’ing’ endings to verbs and the prepositions ‘in’ and ‘on’. We have also starting thinking about materials and the materials…

Reception have had a very exciting week learning the new story ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’. As part of our literacy lessons, we have been transported into the story, by using the 4D space to act out the story and using…

This week 3-year nursery have started their new topic ‘Journeys’. As part of going on journey the children have been making their own train track in the playdough and joining train tracks together to create a large train track. The…

This week, the children enjoyed visiting the 4D room, they enjoyed the calm space and listening to different sounds. They had lots of fun popping the bubbles on the interactive floor. They have also been practicing how to thread using…

A poetry performance fit for royalty! Magnolia class performed the Bradford Rap with such confidence (and timing) when Queen Camilla visited Bradford on Thursday. Thank you to Imran Nafeez for choosing our school to join 5 others for this very…

This week Year 6 have simply shone in their assessments, showing confidence and maturity, we are so proud of them! On Friday pupils in Year 6 enjoyed a funday with a football tournament, woodland cooking and shelter building, cycling, artwork…

Year 5 have really enjoyed another Tech We Can session this week, using technology. Year 5 have also continued to practice their points of perspective sketching techniques and continued to learn about Voices with Impact, now looking at Rob Burrow…

Year 4 have had a great week learning about area and perimeter in Maths. They have used their mental maths strategies to add up multiple numbers and also convert between units of measure. The children continue to work hard practicing…

Year 3 have used a desktop publishing app called Pages to create invitations to their parents for our Ancient Egyptian Class Assembly next week. They have learnt to change the font style, colour and size of their writing as well…

 This week was a great week for Year 2. They had many visitors from Year 6 who helped them with number facts in Maths and sewing skills in D.T. The children were using their colour matching skills and had an…

Building on our castle visit, Year 1 have been writing persuasive tourist leaflets to encourage others to visit. We have also made cardboard puppet sliders about the castle a dragon and a knight or princess to enable great story telling.…

YR #11  Hooray for Horticulture!  This week in Reception we have been using the watering cans to transport the water to the vegetable growing box, as we know a plant needs water to be able to grow. We have been…

This week 3yn have focused on the beanstalk that grew in the story ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’. We have focused on cutting skills cutting to support fine motor development. Children have particularly enjoyed cutting out leaves to the join onto their own…

This week children in 2 year nursery have been focusing on developing their gross motor skills outdoors. They have been using the bikes, climbing equipment, and stepping stones. Children have worked collaboratively to build different models using the building blocks…

Dear Families,  I am writing to share an important update following our recent Section 8 Ofsted inspection that took place on 25th and 26th March. We are delighted to share that Ofsted has recognised that our “school’s work may have…

This week Year 6 have enjoyed learning about VE day, our Year 6 pupil leaders have introduced this in class assemblies across school, collecting ideas about remembering the past. Year 6 are continuing to retrieve their knowledge ready for next…

Year 5 have really enjoyed writing their portal tales based upon Harry Potter using speech and stage direction. Year 5 have sketched a hallway using points of perspective, they are working towards a sketch of Diagon Alley. In Topic Year…

Year 4 have really enjoyed innovating Voice in the Park to tell the story from the point of view of a different character. They have taken on the challenge of writing in the first person and this has helped them…

Year 3 pupils have begun writing a finding tale through class story innovation. Children have included toolkit features for a setting description in certain paragraphs of their story to help them create their desired effect on the reader. Pupils are…