Over the past 2 weeks the whole school has been involved with a national art education project called The World Reimagined. This project was for us to reimagine the world we live in and the world we can create together.

The World Reimagined is a ground-breaking, national art education project to transform how we understand the Transatlantic Trade of Enslaved Africans and its impact on all of us in terms of racial injustice. The children have learnt about the history of the Transatlantic Trade in an age relevant context and how this has resulted in racial inequality in the past and present day. The World Reimagined seeks to educate one another about the journeys we have been on and how we come to be in the places we are.

Our children are living in a society that is calling for racial justice and equality and this project has supported our continuous learning through our ‘No outsiders’ programme. The World Reimagined project has helped us to educate our children about people of African heritage and how their people and culture has travelled across the world due to diaspora of African people because of the Transatlantic Trade. 

Each year group has found out about an aspect of African culture and then created a piece of art work in response to their research. The artwork was then been curated and pieced together to create a collaborative piece of art on a 3D globe! We also had the opportunity to work alongside Alison Smith who is a sculptor from The Henry Moore Institute. It has been a wonderful and informative project to have been involved in, every child in school has had the opportunity to take part!

The globe will be taken away to be displayed in a local community building. In September it will be on show in Leeds train station, along with globes that have been created by schools from around Leeds. We will update you with the exact information when we receive it from The World Reimagined team.

Year 5 have had a great time at their giant sleepover - they have waited two years for this to happen and the excitement levels were extremely high!  The evening started with a game of hide and seek around the school building; it was really good fun with only a couple of children managing not to get 'found'.  The children enjoyed their take away dinner before getting ready for the disco. After a good old boogie, it was time to get ready for bed and settle down to watch some films in the hall.  It was a fantastic night for everyone!  A huge thank you to Miss Ferguson, Mr Stein, Mrs Walton, Mrs Horne, Mrs Harris and Miss Percival for staying awake all night on a Friday so the children could enjoy this brilliant sleepover experience! 

Year 4 have had a great time at their giant sleepover.  They enjoyed some time playing outside before eating their take away. They then enjoyed dancing away at the disco before settling down for some films.  It was a fantastic night for everyone!  A huge thank you to Mrs Hayton, Miss Rowley-Smith, Miss Brayshay, Mrs Walton, Miss Ferguson and Miss Percival for staying awake all night on a Friday so the children can enjoy this fab sleepover experience! 

The children had an amazing time at their giant sleepover at school last Friday night.  The evening started with playing outside, followed by a scavenger hunt and indoor games.  After all the activities, everyone had worked up an appetite so all the children enjoyed tucking into a take away meal which was delicious!  The children then got dressed up and showed off their dancing skills at the disco which was good fun.  After such an action-packed night, it was time to get ready for bed and settle down altogether in the hall to watch some films.  The children were all fantastic; they had loads of fun and behaved brilliantly all night.  Well done Year 3!  A massive thank you to the staff, Miss Lanaway, Miss Robertson, Miss Groves, Mr Chapman, Mrs Horne and Mrs Hicks, who gave up their Friday night and had a night of no or very little sleep so the children could enjoy the giant sleepover experience; without our fantastic staff these things just wouldn’t happen!

Great to have our Easter Egg competition back this year.  We had lots of amazing egg creations that children and their families had obviously spent a long time planning and making.   Thank you to everyone who took part, the children in each class had to vote for their favourite two entries which is always a difficult choice when they are all so good!  The ideas that children and parents come up with never ceases to amaze me!  Photographs of all the entries are in Latest News on the school website (News and Events/Latest News) so if you weren’t able to get into school to see them, it is definitely worth a look as they were fantastic.  We obviously have lots of creative children and parents!  Well done to everyone who entered!

The winners for each class were…

RC – Darcey R and Ewan M                                        

RB – Theo B and Nanci-Rose

1G – Daisy B and Elliot S                                            

1S – Bobby R and Ariya D

2W – Ava S and Eddie                                           

2O – Ava P and Violet W

3R – Charlotte A and Finley H                                    

3L – Seth W and Aria V

4H – Ben T and Arthur C                                            

4L – Toby F and Edward B-D

5M – Jasmine HD and Noah B                                    

5F – Poppy H and Charlie B

6PC – Isla C and Reuben B                                         

6B – Daniel S and Lucy M

Author and illustrator Kate Pankhurst visited KS2 on World Book Day to talk about her 'Fantastically Great Women' book series and her process as an author and an illustrator. The children had a brilliant afternoon asking questions and doing some practical drawing work under the tuition of Kate. The children were then able to get books signed and talk one-to-one with Kate. It was a fantastic culmination to a fantastic World Book Day.

Author and illustrator Bethan Woollvin visited Years 1 and 2 to talk about her life as a writer and the books she writes. Bethan read her most recent picture book, 'Three Little Vikings' and then gave the children a virtual guided tour of her workshop where she does all her writing and drawing/painting. The children then got to work on creating their own collages of a Troll using coloured paper shapes. Afterwards, Bethan took the time to answer questions and then signed books for the children. Everyone had a fantastic time and we are extremely grateful to Bethan for her visit.