Horbury Bridge CE J&I Academy

Thank you to all our families for the support you continue to give us in all we do in school: the special events and fundraising we organise, as well as in our day to day running. We appreciate it so much.

My thanks also go to the children and staff who have all worked very hard in difficult circumstances yet again this year. As you can see from all our photos and videos, it has been a very busy few weeks and everyone is now ready for a well deserved rest over the holiday!

We would like to wish you all a very peaceful and happy Christmas. We hope that you are able to enjoy time with your families and look forward to seeing you again in the New Year.

Christmas Raffle

Thank you for all your tremendous efforts in selling our Christmas raffle tickets at such short notice! We have made £900 towards our ongoing saving for developing the outdoor play area.

Winning numbers are: LINK TO WINNERS

Foundation Stage: In January, please help your Nursery child in their next step of independence by saying 'goodbye' to them on the playground so they can go into school with staff.

Managing difficult feelings: If you or a young person you know, are experiencing difficult emotions, the Council booklet Managing Difficult Feelings includes self-care tips, coping strategies and links to support services Managing Difficult Feelings. It can also be found on the wakefield.gov website.

Class 1

What a busy, sparkly and festive week we have had in Class 1! In RE we have been thinking about why Christmas is so important to Christians. We looked closely at a church image and discussed what each object means and why it is important. Evie suggested that 'Christmas is important to Christians because Jesus, the Son of God was born' and William contributed 'God gave the gift of Jesus to the world and that's why we give presents to each other.' Carson pointed out the advent candles which help Christians count down to Christmas. What amazing and thoughtful responses.

Following on from our RE learning, we found out about how other countries celebrate Christmas. We discovered that there are lots of similarities between how we celebrate in the UK and how people in Tanzania celebrate.

The children have created some festive decorations, cards and calendars. We love our Forest School snowmen and northern lights Christmas cards! The 'icing on the Christmas cake' was a visitor from a very special person. Merry Christmas from Class 1!

Class 2

This week the children in Class 2 have finished creating their own drones for their Farmvention project. They were tasked to design and create a drone that could help British farmers do their job more efficiently. They all created fabulous models and have lots to show for all their hard work.

Class 3

It has been a very busy week in Class 3! Firstly, our young business people worked against the clock to produce some brilliant Christmas merchandise ready to sell on Tuesday afternoon. Before pricing their items, they used Microsoft Excel to work out appropriate costings for their products and calculate predicted profits. After their incredibly successful shops closed, they were tasked with counting their money and calculating their profits- they could hardly wait to find out what they had made on Wednesday morning!

Not only that, the children have been using their STEM skills to create their Christmas cards. They had to use the information technology knowledge to design the front of their card, their science learning all about levers to assemble moving parts and their engineering skills to construct their final design. There was lots of problem solving too!