Horbury Bridge CE J&I Academy

Harvest

It was lovely seeing all the children together again at our Harvest Service and to have the families of Year 6 children join us as our audience. It was the first whole school event that Class 1 have experienced together and they all rose to the occasion.

Class 3 shared an amusing sketch to make us think about what we have in our lives whilst others are in need. Class 2 reflected on how we can appreciate our world and care for it more whilst Class 1 learned Makaton to accompany one of our songs.

We are so proud of all the children for the way they sang, read and conducted themselves throughout the service. Well done everyone.

To watch the recording of the service, please click: View the Harvest Service Here

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our Harvest collection for the food bank and The Giving Box. I'm sure the food and clothing will be very much appreciated by the families who receive them.

Foundation Stage

Our final week of our fairytale theme was all about 'The Gingerbread Man'. The children were looking forward to him meeting him at the start of the week, however he proved too fast again and had managed to escape from the story box! Amelia, Billy and Max made some fantastic missing posters, drawing a realistic pictures to help find him. Nursery also used their creative skills to make their own gingerbread man, learning how to use paintbrushes and glue sticks with increasing control.

Reception loved their maths session on Thursday, weighing and comparing the weights of ingredients to make their own gingerbread man. Annie said "The green bowl of flour is lighter and the yellow bowl of flour is heavier." Annabel W added "That means that they're not balanced."

Class 2

All the children enjoyed decorating and finishing off their woodland models after making them in forest school over the past few weeks. They have painted them to match the illustrations in our class book 'Into the Forest' and they all look great! Well done everyone.

The children in Class 2 have also spent lots of time this week becoming scientific investigators. They have been thinking about the different ways animals and plants can be grouped and learned about what 'classification' is. They have begun to create their own classification keys which helped then to group and sort a variety of animals. We all then went outside with the bug catchers to see what wildlife and minibeasts we could find. The children all had fun exploring the school grounds for tiny animals to investigate and sort.