In History, the children have been learning about castles. They began by learning about the features of a castle and located some of the castles around the UK, including Alnwick Castle which they have been lucky enough to visit this week. The boys and girls were all very keen to see which of the f
This week, the children in Year 1 have been learning how to read and partition numbers up to 100. At the beginning of the week, the children showed a lot of resilience when counting forwards and backwards within 100, filling in missing numbers on number tracks. The children then learned how to count
Over the summer term, Year Six have been studying volcanoes as part of their Geography topic. In the first lesson, the children learned about why volcanoes erupt. It was very interesting to learn about the theory of ‘plate tectonics’ which means the plates which make up the Earth (a bit like a j
In Art, Year Two have been learning all about mark making. Mark making can be lines, dots, marks and patterns created in a piece of artwork. To begin the children learned about Vincent van Gogh – a Dutch artist – who is famous for his paintings. The boys and girls were intrigued to learn that althou
Today, Year Two were visited by ESH Construction. They learned all about materials, jobs in the construction industry and the importance of PPE. ESH Construction build a range of structures, from schools to hospitals. At the moment they are working on the restoration of the Tyne Bridge and are hopin
This term in PE and in Maths we have been looking at direction and turns. In our PE sessions, we have been using the compasses to build on some basic orienteering we took part in at Wharton Park before Easter. As well as the North, East, South and West instructions, we have also been looking at th
Today we have some very special visitors in Nursery – lots of amazing reptiles! Shannon and Lee, from Pineapple Exotics, came back to share their exotic animals with us. We talked about where the animals come from around the world, where they live, what they eat and looked at some of their featur
Eight pupils in Year 6 represented our school in a mini tennis competition at Cardinal Hume School. Over the last few weeks, they have worked hard during tennis club, with Mr Malk and Mr McMann. to improve their tennis skills. During the tournament, everyone competed with great enthusiasm duri
This week, Reception class have been buzzing with excitement as they explored the wonderful world of minibeasts! We started the week by reading Mad About Minibeasts by Giles Andreae, which inspired us to dive deeper into the fascinating lives of these tiny creatures. The children showed fantastic cr
Today, the Year 6 children have enjoyed a visit to The Roman Army Museum and Vindolanda. The children began the day at the Roman Army Museum where they were taught by a Roman centurion in an interactive classroom. In the classroom, the children spoke in Latin, counted to ten and were taught about th
