After the excitement of residential, both Year Six classes were lucky enough to work with staff from Gateshead Library Services, this week, to make the chariots they had made in DT interactive. The children used their coding skills on Scratch and makey makeys to create a circuit linked to their char
This week the children have been learning about days and months of the year, as well as hours and minutes in a day. They first demonstrated their ability to order the months of the year correctly before moving on to finding out how many days are in each month, using the knuckle trick. By the end of
Well its been a long time coming, after the tumultuous last few years, but we are finally able to incubate eggs with our friends at Angel Court. We love working with Equal Arts and Henpower, with them we are committed to bringing together the children, older people and hen-keeping to combat loneli
Plenty to do this week at Angel Court, firstly weeding some of the flower beds. Despite soaking the ground the night before, it was dry and hard which made tough going but with perseverance they got the job done. This is work the residents simply can’t do without help, they were very pleased and now
On Monday, Reception went on their first school trip to Hall Hill Farm. They had a full day packed with lots of exciting activities. First, we held chicks, guinea pigs and bunnies followed by looking a the pigs and piglets in their pen. We met and fed lots of animals on the farm including goats, she
This week, Year 5 have been learning about solvents (liquids), solutes (solids) and solutions (mixture of liquid and solid). At the start of the week, we looked at the properties of different materials and groups different materials based on their shared properties. We linked this back to our know
In Science, Year Two have been learning all about materials. To begin, the children named different materials and identified that a material is what something is made from. Next, the children discussed why certain materials are used for different things. They found out that a material has properties
This week we started looking at shapes and patterns and the symmetry within them. Of course at some point – the mirrors had to come out and these alone can provide a lot of entertainment! After exploring symmetry in ourselves, objects around us and in the class, we moved on to shapes and pattern
Linked to our topic “We’re all going on a summer holiday”, Year One have been reading a poem about the seaside. They discovered that each line focuses on a different sense – touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing. Everyone enjoyed firstly performing the poem together with actions and then we concent
In History this term, the children have been learning about castles. They have identified the features of a castle and identified how castles have changed over time. They have also used the map skills they developed in our geography lessons, to locate castles around the UK. As part of our learning,
