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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…

Year 2 children were thrilled this week as they started their DT module, in which we are preparing to sew hand puppets. They excitedly explored various hand puppets and picked out the features. In English, they have completed their overcoming-a-monster…

Finally the day of our Year 1 Skipton Castle trip arrived and what a fantastic time we all had learning about the different parts of the castle, drawing parts of the castle and playing in the hot sunshine. Each group…

3YN #42 The Rough and The Smooth  This week children in 3-year nursery have been exploring different textures. They have been manipulating playdough into different shapes and adding a range of materials to their creations. Some children made snails from…

2YN #19 Growing, Little People, Plants and Things.  This week in 2 year nursery the children have been learning about growth. They have been planting sunflower seeds, ready to take home in the half term holidays to watch them grow…

On Wednesday Mrs Mawson loved sharing how great our school is to some very important people in London, after she was invited to the House of Lords. As well as telling Lords, Ladies, advisors to the government and lots of…

Year 6 have enjoyed sketching waves this week in art lessons and learning more about Eritrea in Geography. Year 6 have also continued to enjoy Bike Ability, practising their cycling skills and safety when riding. Next week Year 6 will…

Year 5 have enjoyed science this week where they conducted an experiment finding out which material is best for keeping a liquid warm. Year 5 are looking forward to a visit to our woodlands where they will observe evaporation, irreversible…

Year 4 have been thinking about how even though everybody is different, we are all equal. We have explored using antonyms and metaphors to create our People Equal poems. In Science, the children have been learning about teeth and have…

This week Year 3 thoroughly enjoyed retelling a Pie-Corbett finding tale using an exciting drama technique called a Whoosh! The children loved using actions and engaging in character role play to explore character emotions and understand the story sequence. In…

This week, Year 2 children focused on showcasing their character descriptions in English. They have been working very hard all year, and they really showed that they can write independent stories with extra detail. We have also started our Science…

Children have worked hard on retelling their own version of Lullaby Hullaballoo. The story of a Princess in a castle kept awake by clanking knights and roaring dragons. All the children are eager for our visit to Skipton castle next…

#10 Sharing books  The love for stories and books has continued to grow in 2 Year Nursery. Children have started to independently access a range of books in the reading area. A firm favourite seems to be ‘Oh Dear!’ By…

This week 3YN children have been developing their collage skills and some children have created Jasper the cat from the story ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’. To support fine motor development children have been using the hole punches in the creative area. Children…

#6 Animal lover  At the end of last week Ian’s Mobile Farm visited school and the children were so excited to see and spend some time with the animals. They had the opportunities to learn names of the farm animals,…

This week 2YN have started their new ‘Spring and animal’ topic which is based on the story ‘Oh Dear!’ By Rodd Campbell. This week we have focused on naming the animals in the story. This week we have had our…

3YN #17 Hocus Pocus Potions  This week 3YN have started their new ‘Growth’ topic which is based on the story Jasper’s Beanstalk. Part of the learning this week has focused on saying the days of the week in order. Ask…

Reception have had a great first week back and have made a strong start on our topic- ‘On the Farm’. Children have been learning poems about farm animals as well as thinking about where each of the farm animals live…

This week Year 6 have enjoyed Bike Ability, learning about the mechanics of a bike, why it is important to wear a helmet and how to ride safely. All pupils will be given an opportunity to practice their skills again.…

Year 5 have thorough enjoyed the start to their new topic based upon the first novel in the Harry Potter series. Pupils have begun to learn about Voices with Impact, starting with Marcus Rashford and his work campaigning about free…

Year 4 have started their new half term with a fabulous art day using collage to create a self-portrait – we are so proud of their pieces! Year 4 have also started to learn about the digestive system in Science…

Year  3 have had a great week learning about how Pharaohs were buried in tombs along with their possessions as they believed in the afterlife. It was exciting to discover what was in the tomb of Tutankhamun!  In Maths, children…

The first week back was eventful for Year 2. They went to the Woodlands to re-enact the Fantastic Mr. Fox story and used oracy skills to explain the sequence to their partners. The children were excited to have an opportunity…

Year 1 have had a busy week. The strong links between our families and school was demonstrated by many parents coming to our GLEE to learn about the national Summer 2 Phonics screen. In Maths children have continued learning about…

Wow such a great week of celebrating! This week we have celebrated Eid, Easter and our first Trust Culture Day! At the beginning of the week children wore their party clothes and as a class community we had an Eid…

Wow such a great week of celebrating! This week we have been busy in 3yn celebrating Eid. Children wore their own clothes and as a class community we had an Eid party. We shared lots of tasty food, played party…

This week in Reception children have been expanding their knowledge of 2D shapes by looking at the different properties the shapes have. They have sorted physical shapes using sorting hoops as well as sorting pictures of shapes. They looked at…

Year 1 have been thinking about our own identities as part of our work for our One Trust Culture Day. We have been discussing that it is great to be different from one another and many aspects of our life…

Year 2 have been enjoying their last week before the holidays. We have been reminding ourselves of the importance of knowing the number facts really well and recalling them fast. The children were reminded that their Numbots accounts allow them…

 Year 3 have had a fantastic week, celebrating Eid at school and learning more about a different country as part of our One Trust Culture Day.  Pupils have thought carefully about their own identity; their likes/dislikes/appearance and groups they belong…

This week Year 4 have really enjoyed completing their final pieces of art for our animal topic. They carefully selected the colours of the oil pastels they needed for their squirrel and then blended them to create very realistic looking…

Year 5 have really enjoyed completing their culture lessons this week, learning about Canada and exploring their own identities. Year 5 have also finished their Space unit of learning in Science with an assessment and recreating the phases of the…