Our Rights Respecting Group have been celebrating children’s rights through joining with other Gateshead Primary Schools and their Rights Respecting Groups and celebrating World Children’s Day at the Baltic Gateshead. They designed and made a banner, learnt a Rights Respecting song, which they sang
Children in Year 5 and 6 enjoyed a visit from some of the Newcastle Eagles today. The players came in to run workshops on fitness, basketball, being positive and healthy eating. Throughout the sessions, the children were given stickers as rewards for their behaviour and attitude., which were an ince
In Year One the children have been learning to ask and reply to questions. They all had a go at hot seating – asking their friends and teachers questions and they even tried to start their questions in a variety of ways. Some children made their own question booklet and had to recognise whethe
At the beginning of the week, children received a visit from Metro Radio, to launch the Mission Christmas Appeal. The boys and girls enjoyed learning about how they can help others this Christmas and were clearly enthusiastic about supporting a local cause for children in the North East. More inform
This week, Year 3 have loved learning how to use iMotion to create simple animations. The children started by creating flip books using post-it notes and have then moved onto using technology to bring their animations to life. The boys and girls worked incredibly hard, making tiny changes to each fr
Today, the children had a lovely surprise when they went for their lunch. The cooks had baked special Pudsey Bear biscuits and decorated the dining hall with lots of different coloured spots! Everyone enjoyed supporting Children In Need with their Pudsey Bear ears and wearing non uniform and spots.
The children in Reception had great fun on the body boards. They were developing their gross motor skills and upper body strength. The children had to pull each other along with the hoola hoop while the other person lay flat on the body board. It was hard work but lots of fun. Article 28 – We all ha
As part of their maths work, the children in year 5 have been studying properties of numbers this week. They have been using lots of mathematical language including, multiple, factor, prime, square and today we focused on cubes. Before calculating cube numbers, the children were given multi-link to
Over the last couple of weeks, Year 6 have been working hard to learn how to add, subtract, multiply, divide and simplify fractions. The work has been tricky and they have had to learn and remember various strategies and lots of vocabulary. At the end of their fraction block, they were given a murde
Yesterday, our Year 5 and 6 choir visited Grace College to perform some wartime songs in a 1940s tea dance. They were joined by other local schools and residents from local care homes as well as some war veterans. The children sang songs including ‘We’ll Meet Again’ and ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’
