This week Year 5 took part in a heritage theme day in collaboration with Leeds Beckett University. Student teachers from the university joined Miss Clark, Mrs Hayton and the children to take part in a series of activities throughout the day that focused on their own personal history. The morning started by looking at the children's concept of heritage by looking at and talking about their teddies and special items from when they were younger. As the day progressed we looked at how this related to national history and the places and items that make up the history of England. The day was culminated by the children delving into the history of Farsley by looking at a series of maps and aerial photographs that documented how their local area had changed over time. The children really enjoyed looking into their personal history and talking about all the memories that make up part of that and we look forward to continuing our journey with Historic England and Leeds Beckett University in further heritage projects.

We submitted two films to the Golden Owl Awards 2017 – one film from Reception called ‘The Simply Superhero’ and one by a group of children from across Years 1 to 6 called ‘The Magic Library’.  We have recently found out the ‘The Magic Library’ has been shortlisted for the final event which is fantastic news.  The Golden Owl Award night is going to be held on Thursday, 30^th March at Leeds Town Hall and I am sure it will be a fabulous night for all those children involved.  Congratulations must also go to duo Molly Ashcroft and Tomi Smalldon as well as trio Poppy Fewtrell, Kaitlyn Walsh and Sarrah Mookhtiar who were nominated in the individual award category for their two films.

If anyone has not seen the films we entered and would like to, they are available to view on our school website in the Children’s section/ Creative ICT projects http://www.farsleyspringbank.co.uk/creative-ict-projects/