Year 4 familiarised themselves with our Forest School this week. Always interesting to see how the seasons effect the site and what new things there are to investigate. No matter the age the mud kitchen is always busy. The children picked their own plants, many from the herb garden to make some mu
After a break of two years due to the pandemic, Hot Chocolate (or Juice and biscuits for younger children) with Mr Malik has returned. This reward is given to children in Year 1 to Year 6 who have constantly tried their best in class and at break/lunchtime. These are children who follow the thre
This year we introduced a new sport to our upper school years – Boccia. A great sport for children of all abilities – sitting and standing – and is great to build team work and support. The children have loved it – working on accuracy in strength of the bowling and direction as well as understan
Today we have launched our new book for the half term – When The Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth. It is a brilliant adventure story that brings together some of our geography – about mountains and adventures, along with some of our other subjects about the Hindu faith and India. We will rea
This week, it has been lovely to see the enthusiasm with which children have shared books that they received for Christmas, or that they read over the holidays. All of the children from across the school were asked to share the book either with their friends, or with the whole class and talk a littl
THE BAUBLE PROJECT! Remember – look out for your first bauble from our new Bauble Project, coming home this week. The information was sent out on School Ping on Wednesday and our Facebook page and on the website here. Here’s a glimpse of the baubles from across school – from our youngest to our olde
The end of term is upon us and I know that everyone is looking forward to the festivities. Unfortunately, once again, this will be within a challenging context of Covid-19 where we must be careful in how we manage ourselves in order to reduce the risk of catching and transmitting the virus. Howe
This year, we decided to team up with Metro Radio. We joined their Mission Christmas appeal to support local disadvantaged families and help to ensure that all children in the North East wake up to a present this Christmas. The children have really enjoyed watching the pile of presents grow and have
In DT these last two weeks we’ve been exploring Viking longboats and looking at ways that you could hoist up the sail! We started by putting patterns on our sails using influences from what archaeologists have learned about Viking designs and patterns. To make life easier dealing with heavy weights,
As we look forward to our Christmas break it is important that we leave our Forest School in a good state of repair. It was also an opportunity for those that had mastered the knots we have been learning to share their knowledge with those who found it more challenging. The children made themselves
