In Science this week, Year 5 have been learning about human development and life stages. The children explored the different stages of life, including prenatal development, babyhood, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. They discussed how humans grow and change over time and what makes eac
This week it has been so beautiful to have clear, expansive, blue skies, light shining down and not a breath of wind. A beginning of Spring filled with hope, after a very dark, wet winter. All Year groups are still learning about bird identification, playing games to help embed that knowledge but no
This week in Nursery we have been looking at signs of Spring. As part of our topic, we have been learning all about signs of Spring. We started the week by going on a Spring walk around our school grounds. We noticed lots of buds on the trees, blossom, insects starting to fly around us, green leaves
The children in Year 2 enjoyed a visit from Mel who works in the STEM team at Northumbria University. She began the workshop by asking the children to think about how they could look after the environment. She talked about fossil fuels and how they are found underground. The children were then
Rain doesn’t stop the children embracing their natural world, as you can see they have been very busy in their Forest School sessions. Making prey houses camouflaged from birds of prey. They also completed the RSPB Big School Birdwatch and were really surprised how many birds they saw despite the we
As part of our whole school STEM Week, Reception had a fantastic time taking part in exciting science activities. We were very lucky to be visited by Mrs Old, our Science Leader, who helped the children explore forces through fun, hands-on learning. The children investigated pushes and pulls using a
This week, our school has been buzzing with creativity, problem-solving and innovation as we celebrated STEM Week. Every year group took part in exciting hands-on activities designed to develop skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, and it has been fantastic to see our pupils thinking
It has been STEM Week in school this week, and Year 5 have been busy taking part in a range of exciting and hands-on activities. On Tuesday, the children were introduced to their Flying Vehicle challenge. They were tasked with designing a futuristic plane that focused on being quieter and more envir
This week, the robotics team took part in a VEX IQ tournament at Nissan. Our team of ten, called ‘The Green Machine’, competed against the clock to complete skills challenges, and they teamed up with other schools to complete the tasks as a team. They worked fantastically with the other schools, com
This week we have been learning about birds of prey, their characteristics compared to our familiar garden birds and how and what they hunt. With this in mind once out in the Forest school the children tried their hand at making prey homes that were camouflaged from the sky so no hovering kestrels c
