Everyone in Year One has been thoroughly enjoying our new text ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. In the story Mrs Grinling packs a delicious lunch for Mr Grinling every day and sends it down the wire to the lighthouse on the rocks. But one Monday something terrible happened. Mr Grinling’s l
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb;}tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;}tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5;} This week in Reception, we have been enjoying the story Jack and the Beanstalk, which we will continue to develop over the half term through our Talk for Writing sessions. The chi
In English this week, year four completed their reading of the biography of Usain Bolt. Using their VIPERS skills of sequencing and summarising, they recounted key events in his life and described them. They ordered images with a partner and discussed what they thought were the six key events in his
Today, Joanne from Gateshead Library visited Nursery to share a story session with us. we thoroughly enjoyed our library visit today and listened to stories about moving into Reception. We listened to a story about a dragon who went to school for the first time. He learnt all about the reception rou
The children in Year 2 enjoyed an exciting treasure hunt outdoors in our school grounds this week. They were set a challenge to listen to some clues which would help them to guess what their English text would be this half term. The first clue was ‘Your book is set in the deep, blue sea. Fin
Reception have had a busy and exciting time learning about Africa. We started by reading We All Went on Safari and A is for Africa, which helped us learn about African animals, landscapes and daily life. We then enjoyed Tinga Tales and explored the colourful artwork of Edward Tingatinga. The childre
This week, Reception class had a brilliant time taking part in Sign Language Week. We’re especially proud to learn more about British Sign Language because we have a friend in our class who uses cochlear implants, and it’s important to us that everyone can communicate and feel included. Our wond
This week in Reception we talked about Mothers’ Day and the important people who look after us. We read My Mum is Fantastic by Nick Butterworth and shared the things that make our mums or special people important to us. The children used watercolours to explore colour mixing and painted spring f
Over the past two weeks, the children in Year 6 have been doing work from the book ‘Varmints’ – although they have not actually seen the book yet and have done all of their work from the book trailer below. The first lesson involved thinking about what a varmint could be and making links between oth
Throughout spring term Year One have been reading a variety of traditional tales in English lessons. This term, our focus is on The Ugly Duckling. To begin, the children used feathers and other collage materials to create pictures of The Ugly Duckling. Next, they predicted what would hatch out of
