General

Welcome back!

Despite the floods and the snow, we are open! Please drive carefully and make sure your child has appropriate footwear and a coat. Please follow us on Facebook and/or Twitter for more regular updates. Mrs Christison

Schools Partnership Programme

You may know already that we have been working for two years now with four other schools in our cluster to help each other on our improvement journeys. The schools involved are Lord Deramore’s, Dunnington, Wheldrake, Fishergate and Naburn. It…

Rainforest Animations

In Willow class today we continued to explore animation using 2Animate on Purple Mash. 

We took some inspiration from this amazing animation project created in 2011 by pupils at a primary school in Hull, working with a professional animator.

CHAIR’S CHAT (December 2019)

It’s been a busy term with so many highlights and achievements. Here are a few issues that have been on the Governors’ agenda this term. Investment in Naburn School – following feedback during the summer term we have had conversations…

In Willow Class we love to code!

We have previously used 2Code in Purple Mash, explored some of the Code.org courses and activities – and lots more! Last week in a lesson with Computer Kat we decided to try some coding in Scratch to apply our developing skills, and computational thinking, in a new context. 

Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program and (if they choose to create an account and log in) share projects with people from all over the world. If you would like to explore Scratch some more at home, the site is free to use and can be used without logging in. You should always check with your parents or carers before you access any new sites at home – and in particular before making any accounts! If your parents or carers have questions, they can find out more about Scratch and the Scratch community, including the Privacy Notice and information about the community guidelines and expectations, here: https://scratch.mit.edu/parents/ 

Click to go to the tutorial!

At the end of the lesson we all agreed that we had found some of it hard, but that we had all learnt a lot!

Year 5/6 Dance Festival Success

Hello everyone! Last weekend (18th November) Oak Class took part in the Yorkshire Schools Dance Festival at York University. We were joined by 13 other schools/dance academies in performing a 5 minute dance we had created around a theme of…

Harvest Service

 A huge thankyou to all the parents and members of the community who joined us at St. Matthew’s for Harvest, and to the Selebian Singers for singing so beautifully. Our food gifts were gratefully received by Carecent and Arclight –…

Secondary School Application Deadline

Please read the Guide for Parents before applying for a school place, it contains key information on school admissions for parents/carers.  You can also find the Guide to School Catchment Areas online. Applications can be made until 31st October. Late applications can be made after 31st…