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If you were celebrating Halloween yesterday, you may have enjoyed dressing up as one of your favourite characters, trick or treating or carving pumpkins. But did you know that the holiday is over 2000 years old? It began its life as a Celtic festival named ‘Samhain’, meaning ‘summer’s end’ and was thought to be the […]

With it being half term and a very pretty autumn, we thought we’d share some of the wildlife that’s worth looking out for in the coming weeks. On the sunnier days, a really great way to get outside is, of course, to go for a walk, and a great motivation for this can be to […]

As you may know, our school staff, including me, have been hit with Covid over the last few days. This morning we have 3 out of 4 Senior leaders off , some other teaching staff, the Safeguarding Leader and some support staff. Therefore, I have been in touch with North Yorkshire Local authority and our […]

Half term is nearly here! It seems like it came really quickly as always, and with all the hard work everyone’s been doing so far, it’s important to use it as a chance to have a break. So, we’ve compiled some ideas for half-term activities. Carve a pumpkin: Halloween is also just around the corner […]

Lots of things go into retaining the information that you learn about in lessons, but a major factor is the notes you take. This might be in lessons, or consolidation that you do afterwards. Either way, taking effective and useful notes not only helps you later on when you want to revisit the information (especially […]

October is The Big Draw month, where they aim to promote visual arts by giving yearly themes and asking people to create drawings based on these. This year’s theme is ‘Change Makers’ and about this, they say they want to ‘support all those positive change-makers, those seeking to affect change- those advocating for kindness to […]