Voices of Change: Year 6 Begin their Leadership Journey

Year 6 are very excited about applying for their new leadership roles. Mrs Mawson has visited each classroom and explained the application process. Our Year 6 leaders help pupils across school, using their voices to make a positive difference at…

Quizzing and Confidence: Year 3’s Reading Journey

Year 3 have continued learning about how to use Accelerated Reader to take quizzes on books we have been reading as a class. They have been really enjoying using this new tool to get instant feedback about their reading success.…

Portraits, Portals, and Problem-Solving in Year 2

The children in Year 2 have enjoyed sketching facial features this week for their self portraits and using oil pastels to add colour. The children have completed a portal plan in English and have used it to write their invention…

Exploring, Sharing, and Thriving Outdoors in 3YN

The children in 3YN have loved spending time outdoors this week, exploring and trying new activities. They have especially enjoyed developing their confidence and coordination while riding the bikes, showing great determination and enthusiasm. It has been lovely to see…

‘Dear Zoo’ Comes to Life in 2YN’s Sensory Week

This week in 2YN, the children had a wonderful time exploring sensory play with jelly bath! They enjoyed squishing, scooping, and discovering hidden objects, helping to develop their fine motor skills and curiosity. We also continued our activities based on…

Year 5 Shake Things Up: Earthquake Drills and Tsunami Art!

Our Year 5 pupils are excited to start their new Literacy work. They are writing an Earthquake survival guide (information leaflet) starting with a ‘Stop, Cover, Hold’ earthquake drill in our classroom complete with blaring siren.  Keeping on the natural…

Year 3 Reading, Writing & Woodland Wonders.

This week, Year 3 have been practising using Accelerated Reader by completing book quizzes as a class. The children are really excited about getting their own reading book so that they can start quizzing on their own next week. Keep…

Year 6 Shine with Persuasive Writing and Mod Roc Models

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…

Year 5 Explore Eruptions, Warnings, and Wonderful Writing

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…

Year 4 GLEE: Exploring Writing, Swimming, and History

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…

Year 3 Explore Numbers, Nature, and Design

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 GLEE: Reading, Continents, and Creative Computing!

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 Shining Bright with STARS and Learning!

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…

5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Blast Off in Reception! 🚀

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…

Fish, Fingers, and Fun: 3YN Explore Numbers Through Play

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…

2YN’s Artistic Journey: Mark Making and Imagination

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…

From Storytelling to Sharing: A Reflective Week in Year 5

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,…

Pitch, Prose, and Perspective in Year 4

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…

Sketching, Sports, and Sweet Creations in Year 3

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…

Phonics, Forests, and Friendship: A Busy Week in Year 1

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…

Reception Children Show Determination in Outdoor Learning

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…

Imagination and Friendship Shine in 3YN’s Rhyme Adventures

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”…

Exploring, Playing, and Growing Together in 2YN

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…

Circuits, Chords and Coastal Maps: Year 6 Power into Learning

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…

Full Steam Ahead: A Victorian Adventure Begins in Year 4

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…

A Wonderful Start to Reception!

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…

Year 6: Woodland Adventures and Lasting Memories!

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: Exploring, Creating, and Performing!

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: Champions in Code and on the Field!

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: Shining Stars in Literacy, Science & Sports!

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 Sports Day Fun!

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…

3YN- A Busy and Joyful Week in Nursery!

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…

2YN – Exploring Colour and Creativity in Nursery!

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…

Performances, Paintings & Proud Moments in Year 6

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…

Butterflies, Big Dreams & Beckfoot Adventures in Year 5

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…

Romans, Rehearsals & Remarkable Writing in Year 4

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…

Explaining, Exploring & Competing in Year 3

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…

Puffins, Paragraphs & Practical Maths in Year 2

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…

Water Play, Peg Boards & Picnic Fun in Reception

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…

Orange Adventures and Sunny Celebrations in 2-Year Nursery!

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…

Sewing, Storytelling, and Solving: Year 3’s Week of Discovery

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…

Turning, Acting, and Creating: A Dynamic Week in Year 2

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…

Little Architects and Mathematicians: A Week of Skills.

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…

YR- #11 Hooray for Horticulture!

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…

3YN- #6 Rhyme time

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,…

Little Learners Explore the World of Green.

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…

From Oracy to Artistry: A Week of Expression

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…

Times Tables, Tall Tales, and Terrific Handwriting

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…

The Big Bad Rabbit & the Science of Strong Houses

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…

Reception – #20 Mini Artists

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…

3YN- #25 Creative Junk

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…

2YN – The Adventure around Colour Blue

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…

Stitching Soft Toys and Stepping into Performance

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…

Science Sparks and Outdoor Adventures: A Thrilling Week in Year 5

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…

Beats, BAFTA, and Bookmaking: A Creative Week in Year 3

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…

Eid Joy, Seaside Stories, and Shape Explorations 

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…

Eid, Drums, and Learning Fun

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…

#25 Creative Junk

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…

#28 The Wheels on the Bus

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…

What can you see? What can you hear?

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…

Beckfoot Heaton chosen to launch the Young BAFTA Roadshow

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…

Exploring Evolution and Embracing Eid

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…

Discovering Spain: Culture, Cuisine, and Creativity

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…

Soaring into Stories and Stitches

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…

Exploring Seaside Secrets

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…

From Acrostics to Architecture: Year 1 Adventure

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…

Wow, What an Amazing First Week back!

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…

A New Adventure

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…

2YN – What can you see? What can you hear?

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…

Magnolia class perform for Queen Camilla

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…

Year 6 – you’ve worked so hard! Now…

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…