The children in Year 2 have been finding out lots of interesting fact about some of their favourite local landmarks. Some of these included: The Angel of the North, Saltwell park, St James’ park and The Millenium Bridge. They created a presentation in pairs to present to the rest of the class. Fanta
Year 6 are planning to write the diary of an evacuee child, David, during World War II. To prepare for this, they used props and artifacts to generate discussion and ideas for writing. They enjoyed the activity as it helped them imagine what events might have happened in his life.
Year 6 were lucky enough to be invited to Joseph Swan to carry out some Forensic science work. They didn’t feel quite so lucky when they were told they would be carrying out tests on the teachers’ ‘urine’ to see who had stolen all of the biscuits. despite this, the children enjoyed using chemicals t
Our Computing Club is extremely popular. The children have enjoyed visiting websites and creating posters and powerpoints with Mr Hewett.
Our choir meet with Mrs Reynolds every week. They have been practicing the following songs: ‘Try everything’ ‘One in a Million’ ‘No wars will stop us singing’ ‘Remember Me’ Their enthusiasm and singing talent is fantastic and the sound of their singing brightens up our school on Thursday lunchtime
Our fantastic musicians meet on a Wednesday lunchtime to practice guitar. Mr Nicholson enjoys working with the group and they have learnt many new tunes over past few months.
Last spring, the Nursery children planted lots of vegetable seeds in our vegetable patch. This week the Nursery children have been very excited to dig them up. We found lots of delicious vegetables that we are going to use to make soup.
Some Year 5 and 6 children are continuing to learn to play the violin. They meet weekly on a Thursday lunchtime. Great work everyone!
The children enjoyed peeling and chopping vegetables from the garden to make vegetable soup this week. They learnt how to use the potato peeler to carefully peel the carrots and potatoes and they helped to peel the onions. They then ate the soup at snack time with some delicious crusty bread.
Year 3 have enjoyed working with our basketball coach from Newcastle Eagles on Tuesday after school. They have demonstrated amazing shooting, throwing and catching skills. Well done everyone.
