Our school has a strong family ethos and a wonderful community feel. Our staff work hard to making learning challenging yet fun, and seek to develop strong links between staff, parents, governors and the wider community.
Our Vision, Aim and ValuesHeadteacher’s welcome
Within our school you will find a happy, welcoming, stimulating environment providing high standards of education, valuing the efforts of the individual, fulfilling the learning potential of all pupils and promoting equal opportunities. We promote learning for life and encourage children to learn no matter where they are, inside or out! We believe in developing the “whole” child and work hard to nurture, encourage, support and extend all of our children to achieve.
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For our Welly Thursday session this week, EYFS looked closely at blossom. We observed the beauty that our grand cherry blossom tree has, we talked about all the different colours we could see, and we even got to see some of the blossom falling off the tree in the wind. The children then made their own cherry blossom pictures using cotton buds and paint. It was a gloriously sunny afternoon exploring☀️🌸🌳 ... See MoreSee Less
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Class 2 have had a very exciting week! We have started our new model text in English, The Story of Pirate Tom, and the children are already hooked on the adventure.
We’ve been busy looking after Tom’s parrot, Peter, and even went on a treasure hunt to discover Tom’s secret message and hidden treasure. The classroom has been full of excitement, imagination, and fantastic teamwork.
We can’t wait to see where our pirate adventure takes us next! 🏴☠️☠️ ... See MoreSee Less
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We’ve been so busy in Gardening Club! We recently mixed a variety of flower seeds with compost and scattered them in our raised bed. We can’t wait to see the wildlife enjoy the beautiful flowers. ... See MoreSee Less
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Some of our fabulous gardening gang have been busy transferring the sunflowers from our SUCCESSFUL snail roll experiment into pots. More update photos to follow. Fingers crossed! ... See MoreSee Less
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Gardening Club has been busy planting tomatoes this evening whilst out enjoying the glorious sunshine. Over the next few weeks look out for our ‘Guess the Name’ competition to help us raise funds to buy more gardening supplies. ... See MoreSee Less
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Nursery and Reception have enjoyed exploring the ocean theme over the last few busy weeks. They have learned about the different oceans and many of the different animals that live there.
They have drawn ocean scenes and created their own rockpools.They have enjoyed lots of imaginative play in our ‘Pirate Cove’ role play. They have been counting treasure and drawing their own treasure maps with lots of interesting features.
Reception have been exploring number to 20 and building teen numbers using lots of different maths equipment.
In our art this week we ave been creating our own ocean collage with some lovely colour mixing and texturing using different materials. ... See MoreSee Less
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Class 2 have had an amazing DT week! 🎉
We started by thinking about what we could use puppets for and shared lots of creative ideas. We then enjoyed watching a puppet show, which gave us even more inspiration for our own designs.
After that, we got busy designing, making, and evaluating our very own puppet characters. The children showed fantastic resilience and perseverance, especially when learning new sewing techniques. Even when it felt tricky, they kept going and did a brilliant job! 🧵✨
Once we had practised sewing, we also explored other joining techniques to add decorations and bring our puppets to life.
We are so proud of the effort, creativity, and determination shown by everyone in Class 2 this week—well done! 👏 ... See MoreSee Less
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A wonderful day at Acton Farm today learning all about the different animals on this busy working farm. Dan and Kayleigh told the children all about the animals and how they look after them. The children got to feed the animals and learn about the different habitats around the farm. They did some minibeast hunting and pond dipping and got a chance to look at creatures and natural materials they had found under microscopes. A beautiful place to explore in the spring sunshine. ... See MoreSee Less
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⛪ A Big Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our church service on Tuesday. It was wonderful to see so many of you there to mark the end of the term together.
From all the staff at Whittonstall, we hope you have a lovely, restful Easter holiday. 🐣
We look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 20th April! ☀️ ... See MoreSee Less
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