STEM week this week so we gave the children a Forest School style STEM activity. CHALLENGER BRIEF: Your team must design and build a product to move an egg from point A to point B without it breaking. Teams will be provided with a selection of scrap and resources to build their product. You have
As part of our All About the Birds topic, the children have been looking at the structures of different nests. They’ve watched videos of the nest building in action and looked at some real birds nests in class. They then took this information and applied it to their own nest building. Before the chi
This week in Reception, we have been learning all about our local area as part of our topic on Journeys. The children became keen observers as they carried out a traffic survey, watching the dual carriageway from the school fence and using tally charts to record the different types of transport they
This week Nursery started our new topic for the Spring term, Rhyme Time. We will be covering lots of mini topics which have a link to nursery rhymes. This week we learned all about birds and have started to take part in the RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch. We started the week talking about different bird
Over the last two weeks, in DT, the children in Year 6 have designed and made a working Morse Code transmitter. They began by learning about Morse Code and finding out what a Morse Code transmitter did. After this, they designed their product. The children used their science knowledge to create a ci
Year 3 have been busy getting festive with their Design and Technology project by making their own Christmas stockings! The children showed great perseverance as they learned how to use a running stitch to carefully join two pieces of felt together. It wasn’t always easy, but they kept trying and
We have had a fun and festive week in Reception. Read our poem to find out more. Christmas week has been magical, full of cheer,With busy little hands and smiles ear to ear.We crafted with care, both big and small,Christmas tree cards and calendars lined our wall. Inspired by forest school and S
This week Nursery continued their Christmas m activities and baked gingerbread men. We listened to the traditional tale, the gingerbread man, and joined in with the repeated refrain “run run as fast as you can, you can’t fetch me in the gingerbread man”. We then worked as a team to combine all
This half term in Design Technology, the children have been learning all about bridges, taking inspiration from one of Newcastle’s most iconic structures — the Swing Bridge. We began by exploring the history of the bridge and discovering more about its inventor, William Armstrong, whose engineer
This week, Reception has been full of festive fun! After reading the story Santa Post, the children were inspired to write their own letters. We practised using our phonics to write down our ideas as independently as possible. As part of our learning, we also discovered what happens to a letter once
