Spofforth News

We had a fantastic wellbeing day on Friday at Spofforth School. Thank you to all the parents who donated plants, flowers and their time. Our outdoors now look amazing!! The sensory area in the playground is beautifully decorated with wind chimes, herbs, lavender and lots of colour. The Bug hotel has been renovated and hopefully will attract lots of wildlife. A huge thank you to Helen, who is a children’s yoga teacher, for coming in and working with each class on a yoga and mindfulness session. The children also had lots of fun with many other activities!

We are excited to share the news that the Federation has been awarded the Silver Award for PSHE and Emotional Health and Wellbeing, from The Healthy Schools Partnership. North Yorkshire also said “It was a very good submission and shows your schools commitment to the health and wellbeing of the whole school community”.

Chrystal the sustainable travel officer from NYC came in on Tuesday to talk to the Reception and KS1 children about road safety.

“We learnt that you must check for cars before crossing the road and not to wear headphones or be on your phone as you won’t hear any cars. You have to try and not get distracted as you need to be concentrating.
We enjoyed learning about road safety in fact we loved it”

Years 1&2 had a fantastic day on Wednesday at Born of the Forest. We loved playing in the mud kitchen, on the hammocks and taking part in some craft activities. We especially enjoyed the campfire and toasting marshmallows!

What a fantastic day Class 1 across The Federation had at ‘Big Sheep, Little Cow’ farm. The children were so well behaved and had so much fun?

Class 3 at Spofforth had a great time drawing at the Castle Ruins and even saw a wedding!

Thank you to all of you who came to watch our Sports Day at Spofforth school. It was lovely to see so many people there to support the children and I know it really elevated the atmosphere and made their day really special.

Congratulations to all the children in the WATER team as they came first, with 483 points overall!

Well done to all our Year 6’s across the Federation who completed the bikeability, levels 1&2 last week. This is a governments national cycle training programme which helps children learn practical skills and understand how to cycle on today’s roads. It also gives everyone the confidence to cycle and enjoy this skill for life

Years 1 and 2 from Spofforth and Follifoot had a great day out at Tropical World just before the half term holiday. There was a workshop in the morning, and they found out lots about Food Chains and the difference between prey and predator, they even talked about apex predators. A couple of children were chosen to get dressed up as a gecko and meerkat and we talked about their characteristics. We then went off to Tropical World and saw so many wonderful animals which included fish, stingray, spiders, birds, butterflies, large tortoises and some very sleepy meerkats. We had so much fun!