To celebrate Science Week, we held a Science Day to keep the buzz and excitement high. As part of the day, NOVA-School delivered a workshop to all year groups. The session focused on observing changes and encouraged the children to use their curiosity — an essential part of being a scientist.  Throughout the workshop, the children were asked to make predictions about what might happen during the experiments, helping them to think carefully and develop their scientific thinking. The highlight for many was the spectacular “elephant toothpaste” experiment, which created huge excitement. The children loved it so much that they were still talking about it the next morning!

The Nova team sent us a lovely message about the children "All of the children were excellent and an absolute pleasure to work with. They asked great questions and really got involved, which made the sessions brilliant fun for us to run."

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Years 2-6 had some very special visitors last week. Years 4-6 were visited by the brilliant Susannah Lloyd who initiated the children into the world of badger operated human robots dauthorsuring her session with them on World Book Day itself! Whilst the next day, Years 2 and 3 took part in a cartoon drawing and creating workshop with Mark Bradley. All of the children really enjoyed their visits and it was wonderful to see them engaging so well with the authors and their sessions.

The whole school thoroughly enjoyed celebrating their love of reading on World Book Day.  As always, it was lovely to see the children so engaged with the characters that they had chosen to dress up as and telling their adults about the stories from which they came.  The children enjoyed spending time seeing all of the different costumes in their key stage assemblies before taking part in various different reading or book themed activities such as creating their own reading bookmarks or retelling the key parts of their favourite book by creating their own film trailers for it!

Year 3 headed up to Otley Chevin last week where they had their first attempt at drawing a landscape. This visit helped them observe the natural environment closely and practise sketching what they could see, in preparation for their upcoming Art unit on landscapes inspired by Claude Monet.  This trip is a great example of using the local environment to enhance our curriculum.  Before we had minibuses this was a class-based lesson where Year 3 practised their sketching skills using photographs.  Now they can take this lesson outside into nature and draw from a real-life view…how fantastic!

Three children went to Temple Newsam for the West Yorkshire Cross Country Final! What an incredible achievement to even attend this event, the children (and staff) are so proud of them! Luckily, the weather conditions were good and the rain stopped for the race. The children had to run 900m up hills and on different terrains so it was extremely challenging. They all showed determination, resilience and their efforts were outstanding. They represented Farsley Springbank brilliantly. Well done boys!