This week, the children in Nursery and Reception have been busy doing lots of arts and crafts with an Easter theme. As well as some great painted egg designs, other crafts include: decorating Easter bonnets; colouring Easter egg designs; Easter models; Easter cards and egg hunts. We would like t
The Easter weekend is still with us and we hope that everyone has been having an enjoyable time. The weather has been a little mixed but there has been some sunshine which people could have taken advantage of whilst following the national message for keeping ourselves safe. I’m sure that there was
During RE, Year 3 are answering the key question, ‘What events are important to people of the Jewish Faith?’ The boys and girls have read the story of Esther and understand the significance of Purim. To celebrate in style, the children designed and created their own carnival masks and had great fun
As part of our RE topic in year 4, the children enjoyed a visit to the Iskcon Hindu temple in Newcastle. The children enjoyed learning about the history of the temple, how it is used by the local Hindu community, its important features and the Gods that are worshipped there. They were also intereste
This term in Year 2, we have been learning about Islam. We have focused on celebrations within the religion and Muslim marriages. The children enjoyed making links between their previous RE topic of Christianity, where we also looked at marriages. On Tuesday, we visited Newcastle Central Mosque to h
To celebrate Chinese New Year our nursery children learned about the Chinese Lion Dance. They watched some footage filmed in Hong Kong of the incredible acrobats performing the traditional dance. They had great fun, on a very windy day, dancing and playing instruments, their performance was filmed s
Year One have been learning all about Christmas traditions. The children have listened to the Christmas story and also learnt about the symbolism of Christingles. They learnt about what each part of the Christingle represents and found out that they are used in churches at Christmas time. The childr
Wow! What an amazing success Mission Christmas has been! The Rights Respect officers had a huge job counting all of the donated gifts before helping to load the Mission Christmas van. It was fun but tiring work! As a school, we collected over 300 gifts which will brighten up the Christmas of many ch
On Friday, our wonderful superstars in Years 1 and 2 performed Prickly Hay to two fantastic audiences. During the play, the boys and girls sang, danced and acted out the story of the birth of Jesus and reminded us why we celebrate Christmas. All of the children who took part in the play did so with
Year 6 have been learning about Judaism and the Sukkot Festival where Jews celebrate being the years they were in the desert before being led into the Promised Land. As part of this celebration, they build Sukkahs, which are temporary huts where they spend the week eating, praying and sleeping. The
