3 Little Pigs We have had a lovely week in Nursery this week. We have looked at the story of ‘The 3 Little Pigs’ and explored houses. We talked about our homes and what they look like and then compared this to different types of houses around the world. We then looked into different rooms in our
This week we have been learning about why recycling is important and how we can recycle. In technology, the children enjoyed using the magnets and metal detectors to sort rubbish into magnetic and non-magnetic items. We looked at a non-fiction book called ‘I Am Not A Box’ and then used som
In Year 2 this week, we were lucky enough to visit Beamish Museum! The children experienced what a school would be like in the Victorian times. They noticed lots of differences between school life then and now. They also noticed how much stricter the teacher was. Despite this, they had lots of fun p
Creating rafts can be great fun. The challenge was to work in a team to build a raft using only natural sticks (no planed wood) and two lengths of string. It must be small enough to fit in the pond and strong enough to support the weight of an egg for a minimum of 10 seconds. The children were given
What an exciting day we have had at Beamish today. The children were thrilled to be going on a school trip at last and luckily the sun was shining all day too. After an immensely exciting bus journey, we arrived at Beamish and first of all we went to the farm. We saw horses, ducks, turkeys
This half term, Year 5 have been watching and learning songs from Rob’s Kitchen, which is a YouTube channel dedicated to learning how to create music without instruments! The children have thoroughly enjoyed attempting different methods, with some of their favourites being the ‘cup songs’ and the bo
What an exciting two days! The children were so thrilled to get on the bus and go on a trip to Gibside! After such a wet weekend we were blessed with sunshine all day and it was warm enough to enjoy lunch out on the grass too. We completed orienteering, some art, the low ropes and also a coupl
Please find attached the home learning for Year 1 for this week. All of the resources needed are provided below. If you need any help or support with this work, please do not hesitate to contact the class teacher via Class Dojo and they will respond as soon as possible. English 30.06.21 English 01.0
In Computing, Year 2 have learnt that an algorithm is a set of instructions given to a computer. This week, they have used the controls forwards, backwards, left and right to predict how a Bee-Bot would move from one point to another. Before putting their prediction to the test, the children had to
The Tiny Seed We have had a lovely week in Nursery this week. We have carried on our topic of ‘growing’ ‘changing’ and ‘enchanted gardens’ and looked at how to grow seeds. Our main story has been ‘The Tiny Seed’. The children have enjoyed exploring different kinds of seeds in fruits and vege
