Boothferry Primary School
The first day back at school after the Christmas holidays, we came dressed as characters from myths or legends . We did a fashion show with a catwalk and everyone showed off their fabulous costumes. There was posing, we introduced our characters and shared some facts, such as where the story originated. We had lots
It was smiles all round for Mrs Marwood as she was awarded her 25 year service award by Mr M Harrington, a senior figure from the local authority. Having reached her milestone last term, she was the guest of honour in our Monday assembly. Mr Harrington remarked that hearing the children say please and thank
Year 3 have blasted back into the new term with the topic 'Active Planet'. When they entered the classroom on Tuesday, there was a giant earthquake crack down the classroom. They got straight to work investigating what had happened making their own news clips. The children also learnt first aid techniques and had fun with
On January 6th, the Year Five turned a classroom into a bike workshop. All the pupils learnt how to identify and mend a puncture, an essential life skill, particularly as we head towards 'The Big Peddle' and 'Goole's Big Bike day'. There are further maintenance sessions planned in the future. The following tutorial was created
As part of our Land, Sea and Sky topic, we used owl pellets to learn about food chains and what an owl eats. We had to wear a lot of safety equipment because owl pellets are made up of all the parts of an animal that an owl cannot digest and we needed to keep
To launch Year 4's new topic of Chocolate we spent our first day back at school in Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory. We have created chocolate play dough, designed factories, created our own characters, made board games, created a model factory using modrock and most excitedly... Tasted different chocolates!
In our fairground topic we have been doing amazing activities. In the first week of our topic, we took a trip to the fab Flamingo Land. We went on loads of fantastic rides, learning about the forces and pulls they are using to create these rides and how could we link the ideas together to
To celebrate the end of our 'Buildings' topic, the children in Year 5 were invited to come and see all the fantastic work the children in Year 1 have done this half term. Year 1 enjoyed talking to the older children about all the amazing facts they have learnt about different buildings around the world.
On Thursday 17th December, to say well done for all their hard work, children in KS1 met the amazing Puzzling Paul - The Magic Toymaker! He astounded the children with mesmerizing tricks and had them howling with laughter at his jokes. To end his show he made two doves disappear and in their place were
On Thursday 17th December, we had an amazing concert with the percussion section of the orchestra. The children enjoyed festive tunes as well as some of their favourite pieces played by the county music team. Some lucky children got the chance to play the drums and other instruments, including buckets! Nikita in year six said
