Making tipees is a fantastic skill that encourages to children to understand strong structure. Working out how best to interlock the branches, gives stability and coverage to the outer walls of the tipee. As the children become master builders, they can develop those skills to work on a much lar
This week the children have been reading the well known traditional tale ‘The Little Red Hen’. The children have enjoyed exploring the characters’ thoughts and feelings in the book. They have also learnt how bread is made and made their own bread rolls. During an outdoor learning session, the
In Year One we have been learning all about volcanoes. Each class made their own volcano eruption. They used washing-up liquid, vinegar, baking powder and red food colouring. The results were explosive! The children thought of so many words to describe the sound, colour and action of the volcano. F
In maths in year 5, the children have been learning how to estimate and approximate. They used their rounding knowledge to answer problems that required approximate answers. Working in groups, the children had to discuss and agree an appropriate approximation. There was a great deal of discussion ge
In our assembly today, Mr Malik explained that this Thursday was National Poetry Day. It was explained how poems come in many different forms and how they can express how we feel and what we think about at different times. Mr Malik shared a poem called ‘If I were King’, by A.A. Milne (the author o
As Autumn unfolds so our weather has changed this week. Therefore during our Forest School sessions in Year 2 we took the opportunity to practice getting into and out of our waterproofs, no mean feat in a class of 30. The children were so enthusiastic, they followed instructions really well. You can
Whilst the Shaduf building continues and the children hone their ideas, this week we added in the tipee build challenge. Using only the christmas tree branches the children were tasked to build a free standing tipee shaped structure. To create a robust build with a good amount of space inside requir
Operation Encompass visited the Year 6 children. Operation Encompass is a new innovative project which Northumbria Police is running in partnership with schools through out the force area. The project aims to safeguard and support children and young people who are involved in, or affected by, inci
In Science lessons, during our learning about forces, the Year 5 children have been investigating the effect mass has on gravity. Although many of the children predicted that objects with greater mass would fall more quickly and land first, they learnt that this was not the case: mass does not affec
Year 3 enjoyed creating giant human number lines during maths. The boys and girls began by rolling the dice to create 2 digit numbers. They showed impressive place value knowledge and placed themselves in the correct position between the marked divisions. They followed this by writing their own 3 di
