In science, year 6 have been looking at living things. this week, they were given pictures of different organisms: bees, butterflies and birds. They had to create a classification key to sort the creatures using their observable differences. Some of the creatures were more difficult to classify than
Another huge congratulations to the year 5/6 hockey team, who took part in the finals on Wednesday! They came second overall meaning they go on to the county finals next week! Well done team! I
We would like to say a huge thank you to our school community for the generosity shown in raising money for Comic Relief this year. In addition to the money raised through the ‘Sponge the Teacher’ activity (£273.44) we also collected £352.78 from non-uniform. As a result, we raised an amazing to
Yesterday, some of our amazing KS2 runners took part in the Gateshead Primary Schools Cross-Country at Watergate Forest park against over 70 other teams! The children all thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Congratulations to to one of our Year 5 girls who came 3rd in her race!
Year 6 began the week with some fantastic den building. Their first challenge, in this block of work, was to make a free-standing den. Not as easy as it may sound. Getting the initial framework takes thought, co-operation and perseverance. The children need to understand the materials they have avai
This year, to support Comic Relief, we have been telling jokes and making each other laugh. A big thank you to everyone who has donated money in our staff buckets this week . The four phase winners of the best joke competition had great fun sponging Mr Malik with wet sponges after he received the mo
Yesterday, 5 of our Year 6 footballers played against 4 schools and won every match! This means they will go on to the finals! Congratulations!
Year 6 have had great fun enjoying World Book Day. the whole school focus was on ‘The Day the Crayons Quit!’ Year 6 took one colour crayon and have based their work all day around this colour. They created a profile for them and wrote a letter to a child expressing their disgust at how they are used
Year 6 have been enjoying the picture book ‘Varmints’. Over the past week, they have really focused on the characters ‘the Others’ and ‘the few who care’. They role played what the characters might say and wrote questions which they may want to ask the characters. The children then carried out a p
This week, Year 6 have been enjoying PSHE week. During the week, they have had the opportunity to take part in various workshops, run by different visitors. YogaBugs was a great opportunity to think about how to relax and how to balance in different positions; MIND came and spoke about the importanc
