Wensleydale 5th April | Richard Taylor School, Harrogate

6 April 2020, Comments: 0

It’s now officially the holidays my Wonderful Wensleydalers!

I’ve felt so proud of you over the last couple of weeks. It’s been great to keep hearing from you and seeing what you’ve been up to. Let’s hope that the weather stays dry and fine so that you can enjoy some family time in the garden, a walk locally or a bike ride over the Easter period. I’ve put this weeks answers to your mental maths and comprehensions in the files again on ‘Teams.’

What a strange end to the spring term. However, it’s now the Easter holidays so I won’t be setting any official work for the next two weeks.

Over the break, myself, Mrs Saunderson, Mrs Crissel and Mrs Styles are going to be looking at changing from using Teams to Seesaw as we think it would be a better platform to use for your learning in moving forward. It would enable us to upload work for you and for you to let us mark and comment on what you have done a little more personally. We will let you know in plenty of time what you have to do and give you a chance to work out how to use it. Younger children in school are using it with great success!

For those of you who want to remember the story of Easter and its importance for us as Christians below is one of the activities suggested by the diocese of Leeds for families to try at home. Mr Symonds posted about this in his blog.

If you have a garden, have a hunt for some rocks. If you don’t have a garden try to look for some when you are on your daily walk in the neighbourhood. Give them a bit of a clean and let them dry. Gather some paints or Sharpies, anything that you can make marks on stones with. Try to paint or draw some pictures from the Easter story. When they are dry you might like to drop them off around the neighbourhood when you are walking through the streets. You could always write a verse of hope on the bottom of the rock, or the name of your church. Make sure you leave them in places where people will see them.

Here are two links from the Harrogate Schools Partnership if you need any inspiration for keeping active after eating all of your Easter Eggs!

https://www.harrogatessp.com/home-personal-best-challenge/