<p>A huge well done to our four Wellbeing Ambassadors, Ella-Rose, Tahlia, Freddy and Christopher, who delivered a fantastic presentation about Healthy Breakfasts to parents/ carers, staff and pupils in a special Collective Worship on Thursday. We learned that a healthy breakfast helps us to maintain concentration and learn more at school and we were given [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some of our Year 3,4 5 +6 pupils took part in a football competition today at Borourghbridge High School organised by Sporting Influence. Well done everyone that took part!</p>

<p>Many thanks to all our parents/ carers and family members who joined us today at our harvest Festival at St Mary’s church. The children sang beautifully and did a great job of showing us what Harvest means to us at Roecliffe.</p>

<p>A HUGE thank you to all our parents and carers for helping us put together our school fair! Help and support for our fair has come through donations of raffle prizes, setting up on the village green, putting equipment away at the end, supervising stalls and donating teddies. Your help and support is greatly appreciated. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Congratulations to the children who were in Class 1 last year for being awarded second place for their ‘Day on a Farm’ picture at the Boroughbridge &amp; Aldborough Show during the summer holiday. Well done to those children!</p>

<p>What a fantastic start to the school year &#8211; sunshine and smiles! We have enjoyed greeting all our children and their families back to school this morning and our school is once again full of happiness and hard work!</p>

<p>Thank you to Roecliffe staff and Born of the Forest for providing three whole days of Forest School games and activities at Badger Wood this week. Fortunately, the weather has been kind to us this week and all our children enjoyed being busy outside and getting muddy in the woods!</p>

<p>Congratulations to some of our Year 4 and Year 5 children for completing their training and becoming fully fledged and qualified Digital Leaders. These children have regularly met with Mrs Briggs to complete eight modules of Digital Leader training which is provided by Childnet. These children will be our Digital Leaders in the new academic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Our Year 6 children enjoyed a morning of bowling yesterday, followed by slushies and lunch! Thank you to FORCES for funding this!</p>

<p>Thank you to Mrs Barrett for organising a wonderful Nursery Graduation for all our fabulous Nursery children this week. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house as parents/carers and family members joined Mrs Barrett in celebrating the end of one chapter for our wonderful Nursery children and the start of another.</p>

<p>Class 2 have been learning all about James Herriot and yesterday they visited the museum in Thirsk. They had lots of fun learning all about him and about life as a vet!</p>

<p>Thank you so much to all our family members and friends who joined us for our annual Sports Day afternoon on Friday. We had lots of fun taking part in various sports events on our village green!</p>

<p>Our Year 6 children took part in the Crucial Crew event this week which was organised by North Yorkshire Police. This transition event helped our Year 6 children understand more about making the right choices as we grow older through various workshops</p>

<p>A huge well done goes out to our Class 2 children who worked brilliantly together in their teams to achieve second place in both of their competitions!</p>

<p>Seventeen of our Class 3 children enjoyed an amazing trip to France this week! They used their French speaking skills to talk with the people we visited at the snail farm, goat farm, chocolate factory, boulangerie and at the town market. We climbed high on the hi-ropes in a forest and we played each evening [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Our year 4/5/6 children had a fun day in France yesterday, they visited a Goat Farm,  a Snail Farm and had a tour of Chocolaterie Beussent! &nbsp;</p>

<p>We enjoyed our first messy play session which was held in our school hall this week. We welcomed babies and young children from 9 months to 4 years old from our local area and the theme was ‘farmyard’. The children in our nursery also joined in and had a wonderfully messy time!</p>

<p>Our gorgeous little chicks, which hatched in the Class 1 classroom just under two weeks ago, are now ready to spread their little wings and flap to pastures new! Thank you to our kind staff and children who have cleaned, cuddled and fed our little feathery babies in the past couple of weeks. We have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Congratulations to our Nursery children for being presented with a very important certificate from Beth at Phunky Foods to show that they have completed their healthy foods workshops this half term. Our Nursery children have learned all about different healthy foods and enjoyed trying new tastes and textures of fruits and vegetables.</p>

<p>Well done to our Year 6 pupils for trying your hardest this week in the SATs tests! We hope that you achieve the outcomes you deserve and wish you lots of happy memories in your final half term at Roecliffe.</p>