Diwali This week at Nursery we have been learning about Diwali – The Festival of Light. We have looked at their culture, how it is different from us, and how they celebrate it. The children loved the Bollywood dancing with instruments and ribbons, as well as admiring their costumes and colours. We
In year 4 Geography, the children have explored how the world is divided into different zones. They identified the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the Equator and the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Using these lines of latitude, they were able to describe where the continents of the world were
This week Year One have become budding mathematicians and have started learning about addition. The children have been introduced to a part part whole model and are starting to understand that the parts are always equal to the whole. Everyone has enjoyed drawing their own part part whole model o
The children in Year 6 have been doing some Geography work over the last two weeks linked to their World War II topic. They used atlases to find out areas in the UK where children had been evacuated from and to; used the London Underground Map to locate German spies using compass directions; and loc
This week, Year 5 begun working on our Geography unit: Rivers! We started the week by discussing rivers local to us, and we were amazed to see how many rivers there were in the UK! We then branched out to the world. The children were given a map with various rivers identified on it, and they used th
Year 3 have been learning about digital devices. This week, they discussed activities which we use digital devices for and thought about how digital devices can help us. The boys and girls then had a go at recreating a well known piece of artwork using both a paint program on the iPad and coloured p
Thank you so much to all of the parents who sent in photos of their children reading their favourite bedtime stories. It was lovely to see the range of stories and the look of pleasure on the children’s faces as they were reading! It is so important to try to encourage the children to read as often
In Year 2, our topic in Science this term is ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. We have looked at lots of different animals and where they live (their habitat). We started by sorting animals in to these habitats: desert, arctic, rainforest and ocean. Then, we focussed on one animal, the polar bear,
Over the last term, the Reception children have been on an exciting adventure through the jungle! The Jungle Journey programme aims to develop early fine and gross motor skills. Some of the fine motor skill development activities they have completed include: Tearing paper clothes to add to the
In History, Year 2 have been learning all about The Great Fire of Gateshead. They ordered the key events of the fire on a timeline and lots have remembered the year it happened! The children learnt that the fire started in a factory on Gateshead quayside. The children compared of the quayside from t
