Weekly Newsflash! 24th May 2024
Coming up after half term…
| Monday 3rd | – Y6 Bikeability – Live Music Percussion Performance (Swalefest) @ Askrigg – After School Sports |
| Tuesday 4th | – Y6 Bikeability – After School Forest Skills |
| Wednesday 5th | – Y6 Bikeability – NO AFTER SCHOOL SINGING CLUB |
| Thursday 6th | – Y4 – Y6 D’Day Commemoration @ St. Oswald’s Askrigg |
| Friday 7th | – Class Photographs – After School Science Club |
Calendar
24 Challenge @ Richmond School
A big congratulations to Amelie, Sam, Otis and Isaac for taking part and coming third in Richmond Secondary School’s ’24 Challenge’. The children showed off their maths skills and competed against lots of other primary schools. The children behaved phenomenally and represented our schools with grace, humility and pride. Well done guys – you are a credit to us!
Acorns to Oaks
Our wonderful teaching assistant, Mr Stokes, is holding some fabulous activities over the Easter Holidays, be sure to book a place!
BAWB PTFA Car Adventure Quiz! Sunday 23rd June
We welcome families, friends and individuals to take part in an interactive driving challenge around Wensleydale. The aim is to secure points by answering questions correctly at a range of local places, while simultaneously attempting to cover the fewest miles possible. It is likely to take between 1-2 hours to complete. There will be a prize for the winning team. There will be a staggered start time between 10-11am, and it will begin and end at Askrigg VC Primary School.
Following the ‘Car Adventure Quiz’ refreshments will be available to purchase at Askrigg Primary, and there will be a range of activities for children to take part in such as: penalty shoot-out and a slip and slide.
To purchase tickets please email Mr Greenway via [email protected] with the number of people attending to ensure we have enough BBQ food for everyone.
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May Half Term Activities
Eco-Warriors
Last week our Eco-Warriors had a very productive afternoon making eco-friendly seed bombs! The children tore up paper and soaked it in water to make a pulp, they then whizzed it up in the food processor! After that they mixed it with soil and seeds, to make homemade seed bombs for us to scatter!
But the warriors didn’t stop there! They also made some very pretty butterfly bird feeders – excellent team work guys!
Robins
Some messy hands in the Robins this week as they explored working with clay. Mrs Johnson says even though they have got lots of tools to use they prefer to use their hands!
The Robins have also been doing lots of shape work this week, rotating and matching shapes to make pictures.
Off for a drive in Mr. Gumpy’s motor car!
Owls
A busy week as we come to the end the half term.
Sports Day practised moved to skipping, kangaroo jumping and the beanbag race this week, we have been really impressed by the children encouraging each other and their resilience to have a go at the different races.
In science we have ended our plants unit by planting sunflower seeds to take home and observe as they (hopefully) grow into healthy flowers.
In art we reviewed our bird sculptures, discussing the process that brought us to this point from observing and sketching, adding texture to paper, to putting the parts together to create our own individual sculptures, what a beautiful flock of birds!
Swallows
After the all of the excitement of SATs, our Swallows hauled the instruments out this week for a fabulous music lesson!
Our wonderful Swallows completed their SATs this week, and as a treat for all of their hard work and dedication, they had a very special Friday disco complete with yummy traybakes from Mrs Park, sweeties and squash!
Kingfishers
Here are some photos of the Kingfishers carrying out the mummification process on some tomatoes.
Golden Eagles
The Golden Eagles have had a very creative end to the half term!
In PSHE, they created a piece of artwork representing their appreciation for someone special in their lives, which we have put together to create a wall of appreciation.
The creativity continued in art where the children, inspired by the work of Claes Oldenburg designed, sculpted and painted food for a picnic scene. Mr Scrafton had to try really hard not to eat the fantastic models.
In PE continued practising our tennis skills, finishing with short games to put them into practise.
Herons
Our fabulous Collective Worship Ambassadors led the assembly on Wednesday, with the theme of ‘Happiness’. They did a great job and showed us that money cannot buy you happiness.
Unfortunately, the weather stopped us from going outside for PE this week. We still managed to get plenty of exercise inside though. Here are a couple of action shots.
Merlins
In RE this week, the Merlins have been looking at Isaiah’s prophecy of the ‘Suffering Servant’ in the Old Testament. We explored why some Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah described in Isaiah 53. We also discussed how this is not a shared belief among everyone; some Jewish people believes that the Messiah Isaiah prophesied is still to come.
The Merlins have had a mindful, relaxing and extremely creative art lesson. We are following our design and measurements to create our shadow puppets. We can’t wait to see the end results!
This Week’s Awards:
| Pupil of the week | |||||
| Robins (Nursery) | Ebonie for persevering in PE race practice and concentrating for such a long time on her learning. | ||||
| Robins (Reception) | Brodie for great listening to friends and adults. Lovely manners and kindness. | ||||
| Owls (Y1) | William for a positive approach to every aspect of school life, always encouraging and inspiring others. | ||||
| Swallows (Y2) | Emma for a mature and positive approach to all her learning. | ||||
| Kingfishers (Y3) | Sammy for effort in English, writing a wonderful narrative based on our class book. | ||||
| Golden Eagles (Y4) | Joey for fantastic creativity and effort in his art work. Joey’s sausage roll looks good enough to eat! | ||||
| Herons (Y5) | James for working with great focus and accuracy in your shape work in maths and also when creating a Maya city map in history. | ||||
| Merlins (Y6) | Johnny for his effort and enthusiasm in art – he extended his project and started to make props for his shadow puppet. Johnny has developed such a mature attitude in school and I have been extremely impressed with him – keep up the fantastic work Johnny. |
| Headteacher’s Awards | |
| Bainbridge | Antoni for hard work, excellent manners and a mature attitude. |
| Askrigg | Katie for always being a Good Samaritan and making our schools better places to be. |
| West Burton | Florence for a happy and caring approach to life at school (will be at Bainbridge for assembly). |
| Good Samaritan Awards | For courage, care, compassion (for the children, from the children). | Nominated by |
| Owls | William for showing her the best way to make models with Kinnex. | Ceci |
| Fearne for checking on her when she was feeling sad. | Zoey | |
| Seth for helping him with the heavy door. | Jonathan | |
| Swallows | Martha (Kingfishers) for helping when she was struggling in PSHE. | Sophie |
| Rocco for being kind when she was worried about her brother. She also nominates Charlie for being kind and welcoming every morning on the playground. | Libby | |
| Golden Eagles | Otis (Herons) has been nominated by Maciek and Riley for encouraging them to join in with the football. | Maciej and Riley |
| Fred (Merlins) and Lily (Herons) for being good friends and for making her feel comfortable whilst playing football with the older children. | Sylvi | |
| Lily for being a good friend who is always there when she needs her. | Ellie | |
| Merlins | Ava for making her feel better when she was sad. | Beatrice C |
| Beatrice C for helping her in English when writing a balanced argument. | Ava | |
| Dylan – Archie is scared of spiders and at lunchtime, Dylan swapped seats with him so Archie wouldn’t have to sit next to the spider | Archie |
| Other | |
| Tidiest Classroom | Owls |
| Best School Library | Bainbridge |
| House Point Winning Team | Dormice |
| Best Class Attendance | Merlins – 100% |
