We are delighted to share our Ofsted report. We are very proud of our whole school and the quality of education we offer every child. You can read the full report on our school website,
Miss Farrer, Mrs Richardson and Mrs Ashton have successfully walked over 100 miles each for
@CRUKresearch
. With help from a non-uniform day at school they have successfully raised over £670. Well done ladies! 👏🏻
As part of our topic Marvellous Me we have been studying the local area. Children in Upper Foundation were very excited to walk to our local postbox and post a letter home. Some children met our local postal worker.
@RoyalMail
#BelongAspireAchieve
Mrs Richardson and her son travelled to London today to lay flowers from Hendal Primary School, in memory of The Queen and to give thanks for her long service.
The nursery children had a lovely visit from Mrs O’Neill and baby Neve today. Mrs O’Neill told us all about how she looks after her baby and she even showed us everything inside her baby bag. Thank you Mrs O’Neill!💗🤱
This week Year 1 have been enjoying the fabulous story ‘What the Ladybird Heard’🐞 written by our spotlight author
#JuliaDonaldson
. For World Book Day, the children enjoyed a special performance of the story from their teachers. 🐞🦆🐷🐴🐱🐓🐄🏆⭐️
@TheRealGruffalo
#WorldBookDay
📚
Foundation sing Wriggly Nativity to finish our Nativity story. We hope you’ve enjoyed our Nativity songs. Look out for Christmas songs sung by Lower Foundation tomorrow. Merry Christmas from Hendal Foundation Stage.
#1MoreToGo
#OurFirstNativity
#BelongAspireAchieve
Day 1 of our EYFS Nativity ‘It’s a Baby’ begins with Mary and Joseph travelling to Bethlehem. Will they find a place to stay? Upper Foundation and Morning Nursery children sing ‘Knock Knock’.
Today Year 4 enjoyed a fun packed day! We walked to the beach then rode on a steam train and an open-top bus, we then had a picnic in the park and played some games in the evening. We were so good our teachers even bought us ice cream! 🍦💛
#belongaspireacheive
EYFS enjoyed their annual Big Toddle on Saturday to raise money for Bernardo’s. Children toddled over a mile around Pugneys country park and everyone received a medal. Thank you to everyone who came.
#BigToddle
#Bernardos
#BelongAspireAchieve
Tiger Class have had such a brilliant trip to
@CannonHallFarm
today! A super launch to our new topic on Farms! We’ve loved meeting all the animals and finding out all about life down on the farm 🐷🐐🐴🐄🐖🐑🐔!
#outdoorlearning
#schooltrip
#farmyard
Nursery have had a wonderful day celebrating Mrs Wheeler’s special birthday! The children looked brilliant in their party clothes and have enjoyed eating delicious cake! 🎂🥳
Well done to Zaria for winning the Tour de Yorkshire 🚴🏼♀️ design a jersey competition. Her design was chosen out of 85 schools and printed onto her own t-shirt. Thank you to
@ISS_Education
#FeedingHungryMinds
for your prize presentation this morning.
#belongaspireachieve
Day 1 of Chick Watch in Foundation. The children were so excited to see our first chick hatch this morning and then another chick arrived this afternoon! I wonder what we will see in the morning? This is very exciting!
We have had a busy day in EYFS watching 4 of our ducklings hatch from their eggs. The children were inspired to draw pictures and write captions about what they had observed.
#DuckWatchDay2
#BelongAspireAchieve
Upper Foundation have enjoyed their annual Easter bonnet parade this morning. They have listened to the Easter story and have tasted hot cross buns. We are looking forward to our egg and spoon races tomorrow.
#HappyEaster
#BelongAspireAchieve
We have a new salon in nursery. The children have had lots of fun washing and styling hair. They have also been making appointments, taking telephone calls and paying for their new hair styles.
#belongaspireachieve
Huge congratulations to our year 6 football team who won the league this season, bringing the trophy to Hendal for the very first time! Well done boys!
#champions
#football
#teamwork
⚽️🏆🥇
As part of our topic people who help us, EYFS had an amazing visit from a dentist this morning. Children learnt how to look after their teeth and what it takes to become a dentist. Children were very inspired and said “that was amazing”. Thank you!
#BelongAspireAchieve
#Dentists
Year 3 have had the best day being Roman Soldiers at
@murtonpark
! They marched, threw spears and lots of other exciting activities!
#belongaspireachieve
Year 3 had a fantastic afternoon yesterday launching our topic of the Stone Age!They worked as a team to recreate cave drawings, carve flint arrowheads and search through the sand for artefacts
#belongaspireaschieve
#history
#edutwitter
#stoneage
EYFS Graduation 2021
Lion class celebrated their time in EYFS. Children went on a journey around school, played parachute games & had a teddy bears picnic. Finally we enjoyed a celebration assembly this afternoon. Please see our graduation video:
#grads21
The Foundation chicks have grown so much over the last few days and are very noisy now! We will be saying goodbye to them tomorrow when the farmer comes to collect them. The children will be singing the song ‘I’m a Spring Chicken’ to the chicks before they leave us tomorrow.🐥🐥
Upper Foundation enjoyed a visit from Firefighter Nicholls this morning! She answered our questions and inspired us with her experiences! Mrs Marshall and Mrs O’Neill could not believe how heavy her helmet was!
#BelongAspireAchieve
#inspiringcareers
We enjoyed our breakfast morning in nursery today and chatted about the foods we like to eat for breakfast. We talked about the importance of eating a healthy breakfast in order to give us energy and help us do our learning. 🥐🥖🥣🥛🍌🍎🍓
#BreakfastDaily
#healthylifestyle
Year 4 have had a great start to Scarborough! We have been to the park, had a delicious tea and now settled watching a film! A brilliant first day!! ☀️
#belongaspireachieve
#scarborough
Year 4 have arrived safe and well at Scarborough and are just enjoying lunch in the sun before
@SEALIFEScarboro
⭐️☀️😀 We have lots of smiley faces and very happy children 😊
The Monica Graham Centre charity fund-raiser
Children are wearing red,white and blue today in support of Monica Graham as she prepares to skydive on D-day to raise funds for our local community centre. What a local hero and inspiration for all!
What a fabulous afternoon! Our amazing Netball team came
3rd Place🥉
in a very tough tournament! We are so very proud of them all- absolutely amazing team work and resilience shown by everyone!🏆
Well done team Hendal💙💛
Thank you
@CriggStJames
for organising!🏐
A huge congratulations to our football team for being crowned champions of the schools football league yesterday afternoon. They achieved this by winning all of their games throughout the year. We are so proud of their togetherness, skill and resilience!
#Champions
Upper Foundation enjoyed their first sports morning. All children tried their best and participated in all races. Well done to everyone! 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ 🥇 🏆
#BelongAspireAchieve
We are welcoming all our children back today. Lunchtimes are going to be great with our new Hydration Stations, new desert counter, delicious menus and colourful table utensils.
Year 4 have had a wonderful last day in Scarborough! Starting the morning off on the beach, then an exciting few hours at The Sea Life centre followed by a games of rounders 💙💛
#belongaspireachieve
#sealifecentre
#Scarborough
Upper Foundation enjoyed their first trip to Wakefield One
@WFlibraries
this morning. We had a librarian share stories with us in the library and we explored through the history of Wakefield in the museum.
#ReadingForPleasure
#BelongAspireAchieve
Year 1 had a fantastic China day to celebrate our Topic ‘Amazing Asia’, and Chinese New Year. We did some crafts, outdoor learning and dancing inspired by the China. We even tasted Chinese food using chopsticks! 🥢 🇨🇳🐲🐅🍚🍜🎊🎏🏮🧧
#YearOfTheTiger
#Year1
#AmazingAsia
🌏
Nursery looked fabulous in their costumes for the Ugly Bugs Ball this morning. We went on a bug parade around school, had a bug boogie and ate some yummy treats. 🥳🐞🐛🪲🦗
#bugs
#party
#minibeasts
Thank you to all the Parents/Carers in Tiger 🐅 & Panda 🐼 Class today during our first lessons on Teams! ⭐️💙💛The children were fantastic & we are so proud of you all. See you all for Phonics at 9:30am tomorrow
#keepupthehardwork
We are very proud of our KS2 children for their performances of our 🎄Christmas concert, The Magical Christmas Jigsaw 🧩. What talented children we have! 🌟🌟🌟
Year 1 are busy in their outdoor classroom today. We have been digging for shells in the sandpit and then creating observational drawings. We concentrated on shape and tone when sketching the shells 🏖✏️🏖✏️
Our Year 6 Leavers wanted to be creative on their last day, and recreate the ‘Wear the glasses and pose’ trend😎
We wanted to wish a final farewell to them with this video, and a big GOOD LUCK! We will miss you!
Hendal Primary School Class of 2016- 2023 Leavers💙💛
Upper Foundation had a fantastic visit to WhistleStop Valley today! We enjoyed a journey on a steam train, visited the engine shed and let off some steam in the playground 🚂
#BelongAspireAchieve
Upper Foundation started their Coronation celebrations by enjoying a themed lunch outside, after learning about the King and why the Coronation is such a special event. 🇬🇧
#kingscoronation2023
#BelongAspireAchieve
This week Reception have been learning all about the Hindu festival of Holi. We celebrated with our own Carnival of Colour where children threw coloured powder and danced to music whilst enjoying the messy fun 🎨🎉
#Holi
#BelongAspireAchieve