Events & Visits

Events 2023 and 2024 Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nativity 2024

 

   

'5 days at Peat Rigg for our Year 4, 5 and 6'

 

   

'Forest School Open Day'

 

   

'Snow Days'

   

   

'Pumpkin Picking'

   

'Fire Brigade Visit for Base 1'

   

'Spooky Day'

   

'Apple Picking'

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Goathland School pupils planted apple trees in Beck Hole. These are still maintained by the Beck Hole Orchard Trust. Colin Pyrah, from the Trust, invited us along to pick the apples. Whilst the sun was shining, we jumped at the chance to visit and learn about this fantastic initiative. Our pupils recognised a lot of the ex-pupils names which are still clearly visible on the tree plaques. It was fantastic to see how excited the children were as they collected apples planted by family members and friends. Thank you to Colin Pyrah and the Trust for their invaluable information and continued support

'Eden Camp'

Base 2 visited Eden Camp Museum, this gave our pupils to get hands on with their WWII topic and really develop historical empathy for those who lived during the war. 

'During the War........'

Base 2 travelled to Lythe Primary School to join other Key Stage 2 pupils in watching a World War II production of ‘During the War….’. This live performance was thoroughly entertaining and enhanced pupils understanding about life in Britain during WWII. Base 2 also enjoyed a social catch-up on Lythe’s playground where the game of football, once again, allowed pupils from both schools a chance to socialise.

Goathland Village Show 2024

We had a brilliant time at Goathland Village Show. We raised £235.30. 

Peat Rigg - Water Day

Leavers Assembly 2024

Sports Day 2024

What an unforgettable afternoon at The Hub for our Sports Day.

MIMA Art Gallery

We visited the MIMA Gallery in Middlesbrough. We enjoyed the art on display and created some fantastic sketches of our own. 

Sikh Temple - Middlesbrough

What an absolutely gorgeous morning at the Gudwara. We are so inspired by all the kindness and compassion shown here! We are so grateful for this enriching experience. 

Whitby Rotary Stem Challenge

We are delighted to announce we are runners up in the Whitby Rotary STEM challenge. Well done to all involved for their research, enthusiasm and engineering skills! 

Whitby Surf School

What a wonderful experience. Base 2 had a great time at Whitby Surf School.

Peat Rigg

Base 2 had a wonderful day at Peat Rigg. They took part in orienteering, low ropes, archery, zip line and caving!

Most importantly, they worked as a team and grew in confidence throughout the day. They definitely conquered their fears.

Treat Time

What a great treat at our Forest School today. We all loved our ice creams and lollies! Thank you Flows for this after SATs treat 🍦🍭

Meeting the Lambs

Today we ventured out on our annual pilgrimage (now the rain has stopped) to Darholm Farm to feed their pet lambs. We had a great time meeting the little lambs and learning about the different breeds of sheep. We also met the biggest bull we’d ever seen! A huge thank you to Ian and Tracey for allowing us this wonderful opportunity.

Danby Moors Centre

What a busy day Base 1 has had at Danby Moors Centre on our Enchanted Woodland Walk.
We have explored the magical Crow Forest where we found mysterious tiny houses and thought about the people who live there. We have had a scanvenger hunt for natural food, created our own ‘Woodling’ out of natural materials and all whispered a special wish to the Wish Dragon.
To finish it off we had a fantastic mini beast hunt! We loved looking at these insects up close through the magnifying glasses.
A big thank you to Danby Moors Centre for an amazing day!

Author Visit

Today we welcomed a very special visitor; local author June McLeave. We were enthralled by the new adventures of Puss Wuss and cannot wait to get our hands on the new book ‘Puss Wuss and the famous Whitby Goths’. Thank you for coming to our school and inspiring us with your local tales

RAF Fylingdales Visit

Our Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils visited RAF Fylingdales to conclude their Space topic. The trip was certainly worth waiting for and will be a highlight of the academic year for many. As soon as the children arrived they were immersed into an interactive, action packed and informative visit. The children had a mission briefing, simulator demonstration, police dog and fire engine encounter, STEM activity which involved making and launching a rocket to crazy heights and a Radome tour.
We would like to thank the RAF, MOD Police and MOD Firebrigade for making our trip so memorable

Red Nose Day 2024

We had a great day for Comic Relief. 

Roman Soldier Visit

 We welcomed a Roman Soldier into school. He gave a lively and interesting talk on Romans and the life of a Roman Soldier to our older children. There were lots of real and replica artifacts for hands-on tasks which prompted a lot of questions. 

World Book Day 2024

As part of our World Book Day celebrations we were thrilled to have local author June McCeave in school.  She shared her new book Pandora Pettigrew Puss Wuss with our pupils.

Keys Stage 1 pupils also visited Goathland Tea Rooms reading Cafe in their wonderful costumes. 

Reading Cafe

Years 1&2 visited Goathland Tea Rooms as part of our Reading Cafe (standing for comprehension,accuracy, fluency and expanding vocabulary).

Key Stage 2 Playground Leaders Course

Mrs Twamley from Lady Lumley’s school delivered some fabulous playground leader training to our Key Stage 2 pupils.

Pretzels

As part of Base 2’s Food Technology Topic, the children made pretzels. They were a great success!

 

Christmas 2023

We had a great Christmas 2023.  We performed our school Nativity, went Ice skating to York’s Winter Wonderland, played in the snow, had Christmas Lunch and Father Christmas visited us.

Base 1 – Spooky Day

Mrs Rigg’s class had fun dressing up whilst creating lots of wonderful crafts and descriptive writing.

The winners of our Pumpkin Competition 2023….

Special thank you to our School Governor, Mrs Atkinson, for judging and awarding the prizes today.

Base 2 had an excellent morning at the Science and Engineering Fair at Scarborough Spa. The fidget spinners and the Circus skills were particular highlights, but the children enjoyed trying out many different activities.

Thank you for joining us at St Mary’s church. We hope you enjoyed our Very Special Vegetable poem and Harvest song. All of the food and toiletries that our families brought into school over the past 2 weeks will be donated to Whitby Food Bank.

Our Key Stage 1 children took part in MultiSkills at Caedmon College

Base 1 visited Scarborough Sealife Centre as part of their‘beach’ topic work. They had an amazing day learning about different sea creatures and even made friends with a very friendly seal!

Base 2 visited the Bagshaw Museum near Leeds for an Ancient Egyptian workshop. The children explored Osiris’s tomb, used hieroglyphs to write their names on papyrus, used their archaeological skills to uncover and identify hidden replica artefacts and revisited the process of embalming and mummification. Alongside this they were also given the opportunity to handle some genuine Ancient Egyptian artefacts including the lid of a jackal canopic jar which many, many years ago would have held someone’s stomach!

Cornonation Lunch

Goathland Scarecrow Festival and Hunt 2023 Our Scare-Crow and all his little friends Each little bird was made by one of our pupils in honour ofthe North York Moors Birds on the Edge Project which we are very proud to be apart of.

Base 2 competed in the Year 3/4 Inter Schools Tennis yesterday. No easy task in 28 degree heat. All the children enjoyed theafternoon and played with great sportsmanship. Although it is not officially acompetition our two teams came first and third in their groups. Well done team Goathland.

We welcomed the fabulous author and illustrator Liz Million into school. The children had a brilliant time learning how to draw cartoonpeople and outrageous animals.

Today we had the absolute privilege to join Wilf Norman inGreen End, Goathland to help ring 2 tawny owl chicks. We watched mum fly out ofthe box and saw how the special identity rings are fitted. All in all, a veryenjoyable and informative afternoon. Thank you to Wilf.

Birds on the Edge Project: On Wednesday afternoon we had a visit from Jonathan to talk to the children about the North York Moors National Park bird conservation project. The project’s aim is to improve the habitat for four birds which have suffered significant population declines during the last 30 years. Two are migratory birds, the turtle dove and redstart and two are residents, the song thrush and yellowhammer. A key element of the project is to monitor current bird populations. Base 1 are going to take the lead on this for our school and spend 15 minutes identifying, recording and counting the birds that visit a feeding station every morning for 4 weeks.Later this term Base 2 are going to be involved in the Geocache Challenge which involves following the migratory route of a (geocache) turtle dove and monitoring its progress through Europe and down to Africa using the Geocaching website.Only eight schools are involved in this local conservation project so we are very proud to be one of them.

Happy Easter 2023

Red Nose Day 2023

Base 1 visited Danby Moors Centre and took part in the Gruffalo Adventure Day.

World Book Day 2023

After reading ‘The Jolly Postman’ we walked to the Post Office to buy stamps so we can post the letters we will be writing this week. This afternoon we have also drawn maps of our walk as part of our Geography topic.

Base 1’s Hatching Experience

Whitby Schools Cross Country League 3 at Whitby Sixth Form College. Well done to our Key Stage 2 pupils for their outstanding individual performances and as always,sportsmanship.

Events 2023 and 2024

 

 

World Book Day 2024

As part of our World Book Day celebrations we were thrilled to have local author June McCeave in school.  She shared her new book Pandora Pettigrew Puss Wuss with our pupils.

Keys Stage 1 pupils also visited Goathland Tea Rooms reading Cafe in their wonderful costumes. 

Reading Cafe

Years 1&2 visited Goathland Tea Rooms as part of our Reading Cafe (standing for comprehension,accuracy, fluency and expanding vocabulary).

Key Stage 2 Playground Leaders Course

Mrs Twamley from Lady Lumley’s school delivered some fabulous playground leader training to our Key Stage 2 pupils.

Pretzels

As part of Base 2’s Food Technology Topic, the children made pretzels. They were a great success!

 

Christmas 2023

We had a great Christmas 2023.  We performed our school Nativity, went Ice skating to York’s Winter Wonderland, played in the snow, had Christmas Lunch and Father Christmas visited us.

Base 1 – Spooky Day

Mrs Rigg’s class had fun dressing up whilst creating lots of wonderful crafts and descriptive writing.

The winners of our Pumpkin Competition 2023….

Special thank you to our School Governor, Mrs Atkinson, for judging and awarding the prizes today.

Base 2 had an excellent morning at the Science and Engineering Fair at Scarborough Spa. The fidget spinners and the Circus skills were particular highlights, but the children enjoyed trying out many different activities.

Thank you for joining us at St Mary’s church. We hope you enjoyed our Very Special Vegetable poem and Harvest song. All of the food and toiletries that our families brought into school over the past 2 weeks will be donated to Whitby Food Bank.

Our Key Stage 1 children took part in MultiSkills at Caedmon College

Base 1 visited Scarborough Sealife Centre as part of their‘beach’ topic work. They had an amazing day learning about different sea creatures and even made friends with a very friendly seal!

Base 2 visited the Bagshaw Museum near Leeds for an Ancient Egyptian workshop. The children explored Osiris’s tomb, used hieroglyphs to write their names on papyrus, used their archaeological skills to uncover and identify hidden replica artefacts and revisited the process of embalming and mummification. Alongside this they were also given the opportunity to handle some genuine Ancient Egyptian artefacts including the lid of a jackal canopic jar which many, many years ago would have held someone’s stomach!

Cornonation Lunch

Goathland Scarecrow Festival and Hunt 2023 Our Scare-Crow and all his little friends Each little bird was made by one of our pupils in honour ofthe North York Moors Birds on the Edge Project which we are very proud to be apart of.

Base 2 competed in the Year 3/4 Inter Schools Tennis yesterday. No easy task in 28 degree heat. All the children enjoyed theafternoon and played with great sportsmanship. Although it is not officially acompetition our two teams came first and third in their groups. Well done team Goathland.

We welcomed the fabulous author and illustrator Liz Million into school. The children had a brilliant time learning how to draw cartoonpeople and outrageous animals.

Today we had the absolute privilege to join Wilf Norman inGreen End, Goathland to help ring 2 tawny owl chicks. We watched mum fly out ofthe box and saw how the special identity rings are fitted. All in all, a veryenjoyable and informative afternoon. Thank you to Wilf.

Birds on the Edge Project: On Wednesday afternoon we had a visit from Jonathan to talk to the children about the North York Moors National Park bird conservation project. The project’s aim is to improve the habitat for four birds which have suffered significant population declines during the last 30 years. Two are migratory birds, the turtle dove and redstart and two are residents, the song thrush and yellowhammer. A key element of the project is to monitor current bird populations. Base 1 are going to take the lead on this for our school and spend 15 minutes identifying, recording and counting the birds that visit a feeding station every morning for 4 weeks.Later this term Base 2 are going to be involved in the Geocache Challenge which involves following the migratory route of a (geocache) turtle dove and monitoring its progress through Europe and down to Africa using the Geocaching website.Only eight schools are involved in this local conservation project so we are very proud to be one of them.

Happy Easter 2023

Red Nose Day 2023

Base 1 visited Danby Moors Centre and took part in the Gruffalo Adventure Day.

World Book Day 2023

After reading ‘The Jolly Postman’ we walked to the Post Office to buy stamps so we can post the letters we will be writing this week. This afternoon we have also drawn maps of our walk as part of our Geography topic.

Base 1’s Hatching Experience

Whitby Schools Cross Country League 3 at Whitby Sixth Form College. Well done to our Key Stage 2 pupils for their outstanding individual performances and as always,sportsmanship.