Year 6 have had great fun celebrating World Book Day. The day started with the children admiring the costumes and sharing books with each other that they would recommend by writing a short synopsis to make it sound exciting. After this, they designed a front cover for ‘The World’s Greatest Book’ for
World Book Day is an important day in the school calendar as it is a day to celebrate reading and a love of books. It was amazing to see the effort that the children had all gone to (with some help from their parents I’m sure) to come into school wearing such fantastic costumes. The teachers also jo
Today, Nursery took part in a variety of activities to celebrate World Book Day today. They dressed up as book characters and brought in their favourite stories to share. They particularly enjoyed a visit from pupils in year 3 who read books to them. They also listened to the story ‘Aliens Lov
This term, in Year 5, our Forest School is focusing on Personal, Social and Emotional education in a more specific way. Last week the children discussed the three aspects of human health; physical, mental and emotional. The children then whittled sticks and wrote on them things they do to ensure t
The children spent an amazing afternoon working on their sgraffito tiles with the residents of Angel Court. Learning about the different glazes and how to apply them is really interesting and we are eagerly awaiting the results once the tiles have had their final firing. The theme of nature has insp
Each week, three children from Year 1-6 will be selected by their teachers to have a very special award: Hot Chocolate with Mr Malik. These children will have constantly been trying their best, been respectful, polite and friendly, helped others and produced work to the highest standard they can.�
Nursery children enjoyed learning about birds this week. In class we watched a short film about the types of birds we might expect to see in our community, then we listened to different bird songs. The children particularly liked the chattering magpie and the robin. Before heading outside some child
Today, five teams of year 5 children attended a basketball tournament organised by Newcastle Eagles. Each team played five matches and many baskets were scored. Team two made it through to the knock out stage. Despite their excellent effort and attitude, they did not win. The children competed fanta
This series of sessions we have been looking at nature, plants and flowers, the aim to incorporate our observations into clay, creating tiled wall panels. The residents explained to the children what their favourite aspects of the garden were, then the children were sent out to collect as many of th
The children in Reception have been very lucky and have been chosen to visit Southernwood Residential Home with Little Movers. The children will go in small groups for series of visits to the home to take part in some inter generational classes. This will take place over the next few weeks. We went
