Eagles

Please learn the lyrics to the song by Megan Trainor-Better When I’m Dancing for our ALP art entry. We will be recording it on Wednesday. Please bring your colourful outfit in a bag to get changed in to. We will let you know soon when you can come and watch the children’s performance.

KS1 Homework Grid-History Study and Book Topic-Beegu KS1 Topic Knowledge Organiser Summer 2nd Cycle 1 2019 English Knowledge Organiser Summer Year 1 English Knowledge Organiser Y2 Summer Maths Knowledge Organiser Y1 Summer Maths Knowledge Organiser Y2 Summer Science Knowledge Organiser KS1 Habitats – Gardens and Allotments Y2 unit

Key Stage 1 have been learning all about the history of music this term. We have listened to bands from the past such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones; talked about how music can affect mood and why we choose to listen to music in the first place. Overwhelmingly – it seems – Tranmere …

On Monday morning at 9.10am, all children from KS1 will be performing our ALPT art entry to parents. The children have been asked to come in their own colourful clothes for the day. We will register the children as normal and then perform on the KS1 playground, facing the steps. At 1pm some of the …

Jacob Phillips from Codswallop CIC, came in to school today to help the children learn more about the history of Guiseley, especially Guiseley Theatre. It was a whistle stop tour of facts and key information of how Guiseley got its name, who paid for St Oswald’s church to be built and who gifted the Guiseley …

Eagles have had an extremely busy week preparing for their assembly and carrying out lots of science activities. I am sure you will agree that all the children performed brilliantly in our assembly and really showed of just how proud they are of their work. To finish off our theme week, we took to the …

We’ve all had a fab day at Bradford Industrial Museum, there was so much to see and do. We learnt so much at the workshop and even had a go at weaving, combing, carding and drop spinning. The highlight for most the children was of course the double decker bus…    

Today each class had the chance to become composers. We researched the life of Mozart and then worked in groups to compose a small piece of music. It was great fun working in groups and listening to all the different sounds we could make.  ​

On Thursday last week, we had a top secret visit – so top secret we’re only now allowed to tell you – from the Moon and a meteorite! Colleagues from Bradford Grammar School had been entrusted by NASA to look after a sample of moon rock and a piece of meteorite from the Campo del …

Eagles and Skylarks made the most of the glorious weather on Wednesday and joined up for a PE session outside, run by Miss Ingram and Mr Watters. It was great to see children working together from both classes. 

All of KS1 carried out a scavenger hunt around the banks. They had to find out the names of famous people from the past, what job they did and pick one interesting fact. The children were great investigators and worked really well in pairs. Ask your child about the people they have learnt about. For …

Year 1 Today we are sending home a phonics sheet for homework for you to do with your children. It was 20 ‘nonsense’ words on one side and 20 ‘real’ words on the other. Please encourage your child to segment and blend together, going over any of the mistakes they make. Year 2 Today children …

To finish off our topic ‘From A to B-Transport and Travel’, we all followed instructions on how to build a car. We had lots of fun making them and added our own personalised touches. In the afternoon we tested how well our cars would travel by sending them down ramps. We measured how far they …

    Key Stage One took full advantage of the Easter sunshine and did a superb job looking after their school grounds and the surrounding area.            

Destination Judo is Britain’s largest children’s judo school. On Monday morning they came in to offer Eagles a taster session. As you can see we had great fun.  

As part of our topic work ‘From A to B’ we designed and made our own rockets. We thought carefully about the materials we would need and how we would join the components together. It was great fun launching our rockets. We measured how far they travelled. Lottie’s rocket travelled the further distance of 1.5m. …

As today was World Book Day, our day has been filled with fun reading activities. These have included World Book Day word searches, quizzes and sharing our favourite books. Everyone had made such an effort with their costumes! We also met up with our buddy class, Puffins, and shared a book with them. It was …

Thursday 14th February is our Muddy Puddle Day in KS1.  Please can all children come in their own warm clothes, rather than school uniform. They will be outside for most of the day so they will need gloves and hats too. We are planning to be on the banks so be prepared for all the …

Jay, from Blooming Circus, came to teach KS1 how to do lots of different circus skills. We had a great day and had lots of fun juggling balls, balancing feathers, spinning plates, doing tricks with the flower stick and balancing on an unusual bike. Jay made it look really easy, but he showed us lots …

Today was the day that our two classes met for the first time. We have been paired up as a class and each pupil was given a buddy. We loved meeting them and we split off to learn about each other. We read a book together and talked about our likes and dislikes. Looks like …

We would like to welcome Mr Watters to Eagles and Miss Ingram to Skylarks. They will start their teaching placement on Monday and be with us for most of the spring term.