Throughout the term, Year 3 have been exploring the 3 times tables, looking at multiplication and division in many different ways. This week the boys and girls played 3 times table games, helping them to gain further confidence in the area and to consolidate their understanding. While playing the ga
This half term, a group of Year 4 children have enjoyed attending games club. Each week, the children were able to choose a games to play or complete a puzzle. The favourite game, which was played every week, was UNO. All of the children and Mrs Jennings became more strategic when playing the game a
This week Nursery have been creating their Christmas cards to send to their families at the end of term. We started our week watching ‘My First Festival – Christmas’ to find out all about Christmas and why we celebrate it. We enjoyed learning about the Nativity story and how this looked similar to
Reception have been learning about deciduous and evergreen trees. We looked in detail at different types of Christmas trees, the children looked closely at each branch, needle and cone. They noticed each branch often ends in a woody bud, that some have longer softer needles but others can be quite s
Our Christmas celebrations have officially begun in school. Yesterday, we all enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch of roast turkey, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, carrots, sprouts, peas, stuffing, chipolatas and gravy, followed by a Christmas biscuit or cake. The tables were decorated and the
In our RE lessons, the children have been learning about Advent. They welcomed Reverend Dani and Reverend Elaine into school from St Ninian’s Church, who spoke to them about their jobs within the local community. The Reverends taught the children a song about Christingles and then they explained
Yesterday Afternoon 10 of our Year 5 and 6 children too part in the Gateshead Panathlon Challenge which was held at Gateshead College. 8 Schools took part and we had to take part in all the challenges some of the challenges involved throwing, running, jumping and reaction games. Our Children d
The various components for our story telling performance are beginning to come together. This week the children worked with the residents to paint and then decorate the birds in the story. Using acrylic paints to give a base colour and then feathers added for detail. Finally many of the birds were a
Thursday, was an extra special day in Reception Class! We bundled up warmly and trotted off to the postbox to send our letters to Santa. With big smiles and hearts full of excitement, we carefully dropped our letters into the bright red postbox, dreaming of all the lovely presents we might get! Whil
In Reception this week, we welcomed a special visitor. A lady from Dogs Trust came to teach the children all about being safe around dogs and understanding their body language. She taught the children how to ask the owner’s and the dog’s permission to be stroked, this is especially important for
