Dear parents and carers, This year, our LKS2 children have been learning about tectonic plates and geology as part of their geography lessons. We are thrilled to be able to offer them a geography field trip to see the impact of past tectonic plate movement on their local area. On Read more…
Of course, it has been SAT’s week this week but we didn’t let that dampen our spirits! Our Year 6 children were amazing (as always), trying their best and demonstrating admirable determination. And once the SAT’s were over each day, there was plenty of time for lots of fun! We Read more…
We have also really enjoyed planting sunflowers. Askrigg Produce Show has invited all the children to grow sunflowers and then display them over the weekend of the show (August bank holiday weekend) to show our support for the people of Ukraine. Mrs Gurden kindly delivered pots, seeds and compost and Read more…
In English, we have been reading ‘Pebble in my Pocket’. It tells the history of the world from the point of view of a single pebble and it is fascinating. Here’s one of our illustrations inspired by the book; it shows what the world might have been like 480 million Read more…
This week we have experienced some challenges with our email communications. We are able to receive emails, but we are having challenges sending them – some are going, some are not and some are only going to junk boxes. Please can we ask that you check your junk inbox, in Read more…
What a fantastic experience for our year 3 and year 4. As you can imagine, there are hundreds of photos to sort through! I know you will thoroughly enjoy seeing a snapshot of the adventure they had.
The Golden Eagles and Skylarks had a fantastic day: designing; creating and evaluating their lighting products
This week, KS2 had a very exciting visitor. Mr Bryce, from North Yorkshire’s music service, came to West Burton and Askrigg for the first time and introduced us to the instruments we are going to be learning over the summer term: trumpets and trombones (I can hear our parents cheering Read more…
We had a wonderful time at our Easter service on Wednesday morning. Thank you so much to Rev Dave, Sarah and St Oswalds for having us.Here are some pictures of us mid ‘waft’!
What a cracking competition, well done to everyone who took part! Class Winner(s) Runner Up Robins Aimee – My Cracking family Connie – Baby chicks Seth – Minion and ‘Among Us’ character Willow – decorated Owls Aidan – Castle Rosie – Five Minute’s Peace Golden Eagles Martha – Queen’s Jubilee Katie – Humpty’s Read more…
