Today the children across our schools spent a special day learning about the impact of climate change on our planet. Each class participated in discussions and activities.

Red Kites - 'For our first activity today, we chose an aspect of climate change, such as deforestation, renewable energy and melting ice-caps. We researched more information and made fact posters. After break we used a website to work out Carbon footprints. We compared the lives of 3 characters to see who had the least effect on Climate change. In the afternoon we started to make stop motion animation films to show our 'Planet Pledge' We had great fun and everyone worked really hard. We still need a little more time to finish the films though.'

Owls - 'We have had a fun filled day today learning all about climate change and what we can do to help our planet. In Owls class we have been focussing on renewable energy and designing our own towns thinking about how nature and renewable energy can help. The children enjoyed explaining their ideas to the rest of the class.'

Sunflowers - 'Climate change awareness day has been focused on how climate change is effecting polar bears in respect of ice melting and there being less food for them to eat. We enjoyed a recycling hunt and sorting game in the playground, creating polar bears and Stop the Climate Change posters, and playing a polar bear shuffle game. The children were all amazing and really thought about how and what we can do to help look after the environment and make our world better for the polar bears.'

Sunflowers have all been busy today learning about the importance of being safe online for Safer Internet Day.

Here are some of our Sunflowers class learning all about being safe online and an excellent drawing from Gracie after listening to Smartie's advice on Safer Internet Day.

Internet Safety Day - Tuesday 9th February

At this present time, with so much of our lives and learning being spent online, keeping safe on the internet has never been more important.  Safer Internet Day offers an opportunity to remind ourselves how to stay safe and positive online.

The theme for this year is 'An internet we trust: exploring reliability in the online world' 

It aims to explore the need to separate fact from fiction in the amazing range of information and opportunities available to us on the internet. On the day, we will be putting activities and videos on Seesaw, which hopefully the children will enjoy, find useful and help them to keep safe online.

For more information, follow the link below:

I am a parent or carer - Safer Internet Day

Report by Ben J...

On 28th February, Snape & Thornton Watlass and Kell Bank attended a Tag Rugby tournament at Bedale High School.  The team was Ben (Captain), Harry, Hector, Abbie, Jamie, William, Jennifer, Oliver, Romany, Bridget.  They won three out of four matches in the group stage, which meant they got to the semi-final but unfortunately lost to Bedale Primary.  The weather conditions were horrible but everyone worked really well as a team.

Report by Jennifer and Olivia...

On Tuesdays, Years 5 and 6 have been visiting Bewerley Park to do fun activities.  Last week, we went canoeing.  We went to a big lake with an island in the middle.  First we had to lift and move all of  the canoes.  Once we had finished moving them, we got a big wooden pole and strapped it  between two canoes to join them together.  Then we got two canoes in the water,  waded in with our paddles and got in our seats.  Once we were ready, we set off.  We had to do a 'driving test' to see how good we were on the water.  We all did really well and got told to go further and reach the other side of the island.  When we got there, we found a sheltered spot and we had to get up and dance in the canoes!  It was very wobbly but nobody fell in.  We had some races and a competition to collect balls which were thrown in the water.  It was really good fun!

The Sunflowers made a wonderful start to their 'Why can't I have chocolate for breakfast?' topic, by inviting their parents to a big breakfast event.  The children took orders (using phonics knowledge) and served their parents some delicious food.  They have linked their topic to maths by baking bread and flapjack this week.