Swarcliffe Primary School

Academic Year: 2024-2025

Summer 2025

Reception Summer fun

Spring Two 2025

World Book Day - Thursday 6th March

Spring One 2025

Nursery - Forest School

Reception Number day and Forest school

Number Day!

UKS2 - Spring 1

Forest Schools - Spring 1

LKS2 - Spring 1

KS1- Spring 1

Autumn Two 2024

EYFS: Christmas activity day - Autumn 2

LSK2 : Christmas activity day - Autumn 2

UKS2: Christmas Activity Day - Autumn 2

LKS2: Leeds City Museum - Autumn 2

LKS2 had an amazing day learning all about Ancient Egypt at the Leeds City Museum. The children explored Ancient Egyptian artefacts and learned all about the mummification process. They even got involved in carrying out the process themselves!

UKS2: Escape room- Autumn 2

UKS2 had a fantastic day testing their code breaking skills. The children were required to work just like code breakers in WW2 to discover the numbers which would unlock the locks and move them onto the next level. Each clue was closely related to our topic this half term of how had conflict impacted lives? Children read evacuees letters home, newspaper articles about the evacuations and even discovered facts and information about people who were evacuated to Leeds.

Foundation Stage: Stockeld Park- Autumn 2

Reception had a magical time on our school trip to Stockeld Park. We enjoyed playing on the playground; watching a pantomime and going on a walk in the enchanted forest.

KS1: Local walk- Autumn 2

KS1 went on a local walk of Swarcliffe to look for Human and Physical features. We spotted fields, hills and the woods as well as churches, roads and houses.

We have loved learning all about The Great Fire of London! We enjoyed looking at the materials houses were built out of, designing our own Tudor house and building it.

We then replicated The Great Fire on our school field! We made sure that the houses were close together, just like they were in 1666. The weather was windy and the fire spread quickly! All of the houses burnt quickly!

Year Six: Nell Bank Residential

Year Six children had an amazing time on residential at Nell Bank. They spent three days enjoying lots of outdoor activities and even completed a long 6-mile walk to Ilkley Moor! The fish and chips were well deserved at the end of that day. We are all so proud of how well-behaved children were throughout the trip and how they demonstrated our Core Values perfectly.

Autumn One 2024

Autumn One: Upper Key Stage Two Learning

Autumn One: Lower Key Stage Two Learning

Autumn One: Key Stage One Learning

Autumn One: Early Years Learning

Giraffes' Class Assembly on Friday 7th October!

We were all treated to a Roald Dahl themed assembly from Giraffes. We saw Matilda, George, Trunchbull, BFG and even Willy Wonka! Well done Giraffes.

Autumn One: Forest Schools!

This half term we have had a fantastic time outdoors! Children across schools have taken part in Forest School lessons like den building, identifying plants and making collages! In our afternoons we are working on improving our school grounds with activities such as: weeding, litter picking and planting.

Solar Panel Fun!

Richard came to show us all about heat and electrical circuits. We had lots of fun exploring the equipment that he brought in to share with us.

Academic Year: 2023-2024

Transition Day

One of the most exciting days of the summer term - finding out which class we will be in next year!

UKS2 Kingswood Residential

Some of our Year 5 and Year 6 children enjoyed our annual residential taking part in outdoor activities such as: 3G Swing, Zip Line and the Night Line.

Year 6 Production: Aladdin Trouble

We all enjoyed watching our Year 6 children share their version of Aladdin. We are all so proud of you all for a fantastic performance!

Sports Day

The wet and cold weather did not stop our Sports Day this year. Our children were fantastic at competing in the events. Thank you to everyone who came to watch.

Reception Graduation

There wasn't a dry eye in the hall this year watching our Reception children receive their certificates before they move up to Year 1. Well done Ladybirds and Butterflies for a fantastic year of learning.

Big Noise

The event of the year! Everyone looks forward to this all year and this one did not disappoint. We have some brilliant singing talent here at Swarcliffe. There were amazing performances from our children from KS1 and KS2. Well done everyone!

Reception Class: Forest Schools

Our last Forest Schools session of the school year!

CREST Awards

Miss Wilson thrilled us all with some live science experiments whilst our children showcased their own exciting science. It was a real treat for everyone to watch and fantastic to see so many children taking an interest in Science. Well done everyone!

Year 6 Leavers' Party

Our Year 6 children thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon of outdoor fun. From bouncy castles to pizza, everyone had a brilliant celebration.

2022-2023

3/4 trip to the Royal Armouries

For our topic this half term we have been looking at the ruthless Romans, for this reason we visited the Royal Amouries in Leeds.

3/4 Roman launch

At the start of our topic this half term we had our own Roman day.

1/2 Tree Planting

All of KS1 have worked together to plant over 150 trees in our outdoor area.

The aim of this was to create a hedgerow, to encourage more wildlife to our school grounds.

Forest School Sessions

A group of 3/4 children have been participating in a series of Forest School sessions.

They have enjoyed learning about all the different skills and activities that this entails, especially building their own dens!

Reception's Visit to Cannon Hall Farm May 2023

Reception had a fantastic time at Cannon Hall Farm. They learnt all about the different animals on the farm and how to look after them. They even watched a sheep race!

KS1's Trip To Manchester Airport!
KS1 have loved learning about Travel! We went to Manchester airport to explore the planes. We also created and tested our own vehicles!

KS1 Engineering Project

KS1 created model cars in their DT lessons. A few children then went to Leeds Beckett University to race them against other schools.

Giraffes Visit from the Animal Lady!

The class had the pleasure of meeting Charlotte the Tarantula, Milkshake the Chameleon, Mango the Burmese Python and Gru the Tiny Owl. We held and stroked all the animals, even the scary ones...