In Year One the children have been reading a new book “Stone Girl, Bone Girl.” It’s all about the life of Mary Anning and her important scientific discovery – the excavation of the first dinosaur bones in the United Kingdom. The children had to pretend to be Mary Anning and carefully remove foss
This week has been STEM week in school and, as part of the week, some of the Year 6 children were lucky enough to go on a visit to the Nissan factory. Possibilities is a key driver of the school’s curriculum and this visit allowed the children to understand and see a future career path as an enginee
Year 4 have been applying their number knowledge to calculations using column addition. We used counters to demonstrate our calculations and where the exchanged (or carried) value came from. The children wanted to show you their work and hard they’d focused. Article 29 – we all have the right to
To round off our term of hockey coaching in P.E., 4A and 4B had a play off between classes with a tournament of 5 minute games with total won games and goal count going towards crowning the overall winning class. This time we awarded 4B with the champions title…let us see what happens in the nex
Due to the kind contributions from parents and carers, we were able to collect a variety of food for Harvest. This food has now been collected by The People’s Kitchen in Newcastle to help those in need. The school received a thank you letter from The People’s Kitchen thanking us for our kind donatio
As part of STEM week Year 5 were set The Egg Move Challenge. This exercise encourages the children to hone their problem solving and communication skills. Demonstrating an understanding of how to use a variety of materials, practically learning about forces, using estimation and prediction are just
Today tripod lashings were introduced to Year 3, bringing in more challenge to their tipee building. Being able to complete a tight fastenings will allow the children to be even more creative in their structure making. Article 6 – We all have the right to live and to succeed at whatever we do.
In DT this week, year 4 thoroughly enjoyed making 3D models of Viking homes. The brief was to design and build a model that showed some of their key features. From their research, the children identified that Viking homes were constructed from either mud or wood, were single story, had thatched or t
This half term, the children in Year 5 have been developing their Tag Rugby skills. They have worked on their passing skills, footwork and attacking and defending. This week, the children put their skills into action in small sided games. During the matches, the children showed how well their skills
In Year 5, for their Art unit of work, the children have studied batik. They looked at different artists’ examples of batik before creating their own design. The children thoroughly enjoyed applying wax or glue to material before using brusho paint to dye the fabric. The results were fantastic! Arti
