This week, a group of children from Year 3 enjoyed the chance to go orienteering at Grace College. We are always keen to support events nearby – as this means we can walk to them! They had to complete a range of team challenges and solve problems using all sorts of different skills. Our outdoor
Our topic this term is Sense of Place. In Geography, Year 3 have been learning all about where our school is located. They started by reminding themselves of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom before moving on to learn about counties, successfully identifying Tyne and Wear as our loc
Reception were busy in the Forest School this week identifying flowers and seeds. They did a really impressive job collecting dandy-lions, daisies, cherry blossom and beech nut husks, these were then used in the Creative Clay Area and Mud Kitchen. After all that running around they still had enough
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb;}tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;}tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5;} This week in Reception, we have been enjoying the story Jack and the Beanstalk, which we will continue to develop over the half term through our Talk for Writing sessions. The chi
This week, Year 5 have begun an exciting new Science unit all about Space! To start their new unit, the children explored the planets in our solar system and discovered the differences between rocky planets and gas planets. They retrieved key information about each planet, learning which are smaller
In English this week, year four completed their reading of the biography of Usain Bolt. Using their VIPERS skills of sequencing and summarising, they recounted key events in his life and described them. They ordered images with a partner and discussed what they thought were the six key events in his
To begin our new topic for the Summer Term, Nursery have been hunting for minibeasts in Forest School. We started the week finding out what minibeasts are and where they might live. We watched lots of videos and read stories. We found out lots of information and decided to see what we could find on
Today, Joanne from Gateshead Library visited Nursery to share a story session with us. we thoroughly enjoyed our library visit today and listened to stories about moving into Reception. We listened to a story about a dragon who went to school for the first time. He learnt all about the reception rou
For our summer science topic we are learning about plants. Firstly, we learnt what a plant is. On a gloriously sunny day, we all went onto the field for a plant hunt. The children found many different kinds of plant including bluebells, grass, daffodils, daisies and buttercups and they enjoyed
The children in Year 2 enjoyed an exciting treasure hunt outdoors in our school grounds this week. They were set a challenge to listen to some clues which would help them to guess what their English text would be this half term. The first clue was ‘Your book is set in the deep, blue sea. Fin
