This afternoon, Year 5 were lucky enough to have a visitor in school! As we haven’t had one all year due to COVID, the children were very excited – as were the staff! Omair from Newcastle Central Mosque came in to help the children develop their understanding of Muslim prayer and worship, with a foc
After learning about castles, our art topic has allowed the children in Year 3 to design a flag that they could have flown above their own castle. The children created sketches of four important things in their lives and designed symbols to represent these drawings. They then used their knowledge
3 Little Pigs We have had a lovely week in Nursery this week. We have looked at the story of ‘The 3 Little Pigs’ and explored houses. We talked about our homes and what they look like and then compared this to different types of houses around the world. We then looked into different rooms in our
This week we have been learning about why recycling is important and how we can recycle. In technology, the children enjoyed using the magnets and metal detectors to sort rubbish into magnetic and non-magnetic items. We looked at a non-fiction book called ‘I Am Not A Box’ and then used som
In Year 2 this week, we were lucky enough to visit Beamish Museum! The children experienced what a school would be like in the Victorian times. They noticed lots of differences between school life then and now. They also noticed how much stricter the teacher was. Despite this, they had lots of fun p
Creating rafts can be great fun. The challenge was to work in a team to build a raft using only natural sticks (no planed wood) and two lengths of string. It must be small enough to fit in the pond and strong enough to support the weight of an egg for a minimum of 10 seconds. The children were given
What an exciting day we have had at Beamish today. The children were thrilled to be going on a school trip at last and luckily the sun was shining all day too. After an immensely exciting bus journey, we arrived at Beamish and first of all we went to the farm. We saw horses, ducks, turkeys
This half term, Year 5 have been watching and learning songs from Rob’s Kitchen, which is a YouTube channel dedicated to learning how to create music without instruments! The children have thoroughly enjoyed attempting different methods, with some of their favourites being the ‘cup songs’ and the bo
In Computing, Year 2 have learnt that an algorithm is a set of instructions given to a computer. This week, they have used the controls forwards, backwards, left and right to predict how a Bee-Bot would move from one point to another. Before putting their prediction to the test, the children had to
The Tiny Seed We have had a lovely week in Nursery this week. We have carried on our topic of ‘growing’ ‘changing’ and ‘enchanted gardens’ and looked at how to grow seeds. Our main story has been ‘The Tiny Seed’. The children have enjoyed exploring different kinds of seeds in fruits and vege
