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Today, 24 of our amazing Athletes competed in an athletics festival at Gateshead International Stadium. The children competed against 48 other schools in a range of track and field events. We had some fantastic results as well as the children showing maturity and skill in their events! We had an ama

As a reward for having the best attendance last half term, Miss Ledger’s class chose to enjoy an exciting afternoon filled with films and pizza. What a treat! UNICEF Article 12: We all have the right to say what we think and to be listened to.

This  week, we visited the Oriental Museum in Durham, to consolidate our learning surrounding the ancient city of Baghdad and our RE work about Islam.  We began our visit by studying various rare artefacts from C.900.  We worked with a partner to search for answers to questions about the period a

Year 3 have had a fantastic trip to Newcastle Castle Keep! The boys and girls learned all about the features of a castle and joined in a Castle and Courts workshop, to re-enact a feast fit for Kings and Queens. The children climbed over 100 stairs to the roof of the castle, where they experienced so

Though not everyone has enjoyed the wet weather of late, the plants have certainly benefited. Year 1 children took advantage of this and were set off to collect leaves, grasses and interesting objects. Once they’d gathered their items they then put them together to create their own woodland scene. P

The Nursery children were very excited this week, when one of our parents brought some ducklings to visit. The ducklings were only one week old.  The children asked lots of questions about the ducklings: finding out what they eat; where they live; how big they will grow and the type of ducks they

Last week, Year 5 got an insight into teaching when they undertook sports leadership with Year 1. They worked with staff from Joseph Swan Academy  to design a quick, five minute activity for students in Year 1, making sure they were staying active and having fun the whole time! All students worked

Mrs Blinkhorn and Mrs Old’s class were very lucky to have two sets of visitors on Friday in relation to the World Transplant games that are going to be held in the region this summer. In the morning, the class learnt about the important work regarding organ donation. In the afternoon, two local arti

As part of our study into Baghdad and Islam, Year 5 have been working hard to replicate the intricate patterns found on Islamic prayer mats. After drawing out our designs, we used thread and wool to stitch our patterns onto binca. We will be evaluating our work later this week. Article 29 – We have

This week, the children in Reception have been learning about positional language. To help them test out their new vocabulary, the children have been directing the bee bots to  different places. They enjoyed using the controls to move the bee bots in different directions, such as forwards,  backwa