Our Vision
We believe that our children should have the aspiration and opportunity to ‘Live life in all its fullness’ and ‘Shine like stars in the sky’.
New this week…
Forest School
The next forest school session will be for Cedar Class next Friday 16th October
Bus Booking Form
We are starting to use Arbor to book the bus from next week, Monday 12th October. This can be done like booking any other club but there is no charge. There is an option for each bus and booking can be made for the school year. Please log into Arbor and book your child’s travel by 9.00am each Monday morning if you use the school bus service.
Let’s Celebrate!
Sports News!
Our Year 6 sports leaders
received their hoodies this week and continue to promote sport at breaks and lunchtimes. we all agree that they are doing a great job! Watch this space for further updates
Dodge Ball
A team of 10 children from Year 3 and 4 took part in an inter school competition this week, they showed fantastic team skills, determination and worked together throughout the competition, well done, we look forward to the next competition.
Intra Tag Rugby
We are all looking forward to Intra Tag Rugby on Tuesday morning, there will be a Tag Rugby Festival with activities for everyone in school, an email with further information will follow shortly. Please can all children come to school in their full PE kit suitable for being outside in the weather and a full water bottle. We are really looking forward to the event!
Young Voices
We are busy learning lots of super songs in school, as well as doing some extra practise at our lunchtime choir! We are so excited already and looking forward to sharing our songs with you all. So far we have learnt, 'The ABBA Medley'.
Harvest Celebration 2026
Can you help us to celebrate our local harvest?
As part of our Harvest Celebration, we would love to invite parents, farmers, allotment holders, gardeners, contractors, and anyone involved in bringing in our local harvest to join us. We would be delighted if you could come and share your experiences, helping our children to learn more about the work that goes into producing the food and resources that we all rely on every day. Together, we will give thanks for the harvest and develop a deeper appreciation of the harvest that happens all around us.
If this is something that you can help us with as a family or an individual or if you know anyone locally who might like to help us then please get in touch with Gemma Pawson (Acorn Class Teacher) gpawson@kirkbymalzeard.n-yorks.sch.uk
As part of our Harvest Celebration, we are delighted to welcome volunteers from
Ripon Community Food Bank and Waste Not Wednesday. They will be joining us to share some of the wonderful work they do to support people across our local community.
Harvest is a special time for us to reflect on how we can show kindness, generosity and care for others. Over the coming weeks, we will be collecting donations to support the food bank, and we would be very grateful for your help.
There are two ways you can contribute:
- Make a donation via the Ripon Community House JustGiving page.
- Donate food and household items for the food bank. Please ensure that all items are unopened, in date and comply with our food allergy guidelines.
If you would like to find out more about the valuable work of the food bank or Waste Not Wednesday, please visit:
Thank you for helping us live out our school values through acts of generosity and service. Together, we can make a real difference to families in our community.
Spotlights from Learning…
Acorn Class
This week in Science, we have been exploring the properties of different materials and thinking carefully about what makes materials suitable for different purposes. I wonder what objects, materials and properties you could fins to explore at home? In Maths, our Year 1 children have been learning about inequality symbols and using related stem sentences to help them compare numbers with confidence. Meanwhile, our EYFS children have been developing their subitising skills, becoming increasingly confident at recognising quantities without counting. In Phonics, Year 1 have begun learning some of the new Phase 5 GPCs and have been very excited to discover new ways that sounds can be represented in words. We have also enjoyed sharing lots of autumnal stories and have been exploring gourds and pumpkins in our exploration area. Inspired by Rosie's Walk, the children worked together to build Rosie a farm and have continued to develop their storytelling vocabulary and language skills as they retell the story in their own words. I wonder if anyone can have fun sharing our storytelling at home this weekend?
Oak Class
Oak Class have had another fantastic week of learning! We began planning our independent writing based on 'The Comet'. We explored how Nyla felt as she moved from the countryside to the city and reflected on how we might have felt in a similar situation. We have practised a range of writing techniques, created our own puppet characters and chotted down rich vocabulary to describe our settings. Our plot point planning looked brilliant and we were excited to begin writing our narratives next week. Can you tell your grown-up what your character is going to do and which writing techniques you will use?
Palm Class
We have been becoming experts in our composition of numbers to 100 these past couple of weeks. We have thought about ways that 100 can be split into equal groups and linking this to our multiplication learning e.g. 4 x 25 = 100 or 5 x 20 = 100. (Our investigations even allowed us to discover that 40 x 2.5 = 100 which was really exciting but we decided we would stick to becoming fluent in our whole numbers first!). We then moved onto look at addends that had a sum of 100. We were easily able to work out our multiples of 10 to 100 (e.g. 40 + 60 = 100) because we knew about our number bonds to 10. So we looked at all pairs of addends that had a sum to 100...we noticed a beautiful mistake that lots of people might make when thinking of this e.g. 36 + 74 We now know this has a sum of 110. This has helped us be careful when finding pairs of addends to 100. I wonder if you and your child can explore this beautiful mistake at home, perhaps they can help you not make it!
Cedar Class
This week, Cedar class have been circuit detectives, using our knowledge of electricity and circuits to find out why some circuits work and others do not. Examining pre-drawn circuits and deciding what we think will happen when we build the circuit to test it, checking our prediction and recording our results and reasoning. Why not discuss how the lights in your house work on a circuit with your child and the role of the switch - how it affects this circuit.
Class Collective Worship
Each week one of our Collective Worship sessions takes place in class with a focus on something in the news. Attached is a take home that you might like to think about and share with your child at home.
Take Home -
Take Home (66).pdf
Messages from the school office:
Gardening club is cancelled on Wednesday 14th October.
The final Gardening Club of the term will take place on Wednesday 21 October.
Reminders…
Annual Update – School Behaviour and Communication Policies
As we settle in to the new academic year, we are writing to share our updated Behaviour Policy and Communication Policy. These updates are shared annually to ensure that our school community continues to be a safe, happy and productive environment for all pupils.
A successful school experience relies on a strong partnership between home and school and we ask that you review these policy updates.
Communication Policy
Behaviour Policy Sept
Friends Gifting Artwork & Tea Towel Project! 🎨
We want to send a quick reminder about the
Friends special gifting artwork. This is a wonderful opportunity to create keepsakes while supporting our school community!
Important Deadline
Please hand your child's completed artwork back to a member of Friends or drop it off at the
school office BEFORE half term.
You and your child can get as creative as you like! Accepted artwork includes:
Handprints and
handwriting
Everyday special drawings designed for gifts to be used
all year round
Christmas cards and festive drawings for Christmas gifting items
🫖 Special Project: Class Tea Towels!
We would love to offer a class group memory item this year in the form of a
tea towel featuring all the children's self-portraits (complete with their names).
No Pressure: There is zero pressure or obligation to purchase the final tea towel.
We want to make sure
no child is left out of the class design for the families who
do wish to order one.
Because of this, we would be so grateful if
every child could hand back a self-portrait so the whole class is included.
Thank you so much in advance for your support, creativity, and help!
KS2 After School Street Dance Club
We have places available for After School Street Dance Club hosted by LA Performance Academy! In each session, students will learn a variety of cool street dance moves and combine them to create fun, high-energy routines. It’s a fantastic way to stay active, build confidence, and enjoy dancing with friends in a relaxed, upbeat environment full of music and good vibes.
Parents book and pay for the After-School Street Dance Club directly through La Performance Academy via their online booking link. The club is charged at £30 per month.
https://la-performance-academy.classforkids.io/info/17
Safeguarding, Health and Wellbeing Updates
Allergens in school, lunches and snacks
Just a reminder we have the following allergens in school and ask that these are not sent in in lunch boxes:
All nuts (including tree nuts), beans, lentils, chickpeas and peas (including pea protein, pea flour and pea fibre). Please support us to keep our school community safe by ensuring these products do not come into school and are not included in your child’s packed lunch or snack.
Please can all small fruit (grapes, strawberries etc) be chopped up into quarters in lunch boxes.