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Year 6 have been investigating how light travels in straight lines. They used string and a torch to represent the path of the light ray and had to show how it is reflected from objects and then travels to the eye to allow people to see.

The children in Year 2 have been learning about the Great Fire of London as part of their History work and in class they talked about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.  At Art club this week  the pupils created bonfire collages and drew fireworks in the night sky.

Our tag rugby team competed in the finals of the Gateshead tournament at Blaydon Rugby Club.  They played four matches, one of which they won, one they lost and the final two were drawn. All of the children showed an amazing attitude and thoroughly enjoyed competing.  Well done everyone!

Our Year 6 children are now very experienced in the practical skills of Forest School, they have worked hard to develop positive communication strategies and have a confidence and sense of ownership when working outside. From September they have been running their own Forest School sessions. They sp

The boys and girls at Nursery have been doing lots of Halloween related activities this week.  On Wednesday, they came to Nursery dressed in Halloween costumes.  We shared lots of stories including ‘Meg and Mog’ stories, ‘Room on a Broom’ and ‘What’s in the Witches Kitchen’.  The children were fa

The children loved the spooky activities in Reception this week. We made magic potions with scary creatures, used orange play dough to make pumpkins and printed white ghosts using potatoes. We even made chocolate crispie spiders with 8 legs and hammered golf tees into a large pumpkin. The boys and g

The Reception children have enjoyed hunting for different shapes in the outdoor area. They were able to name the shapes and describe them. The children also had fun exploring different shapes by drawing around them and creating shape pictures.

This week in PE, Year 5 were lucky enough to have Anthony – a specialist basketball coach from the Newcastle Eagles – teaching PE! He taught us how to properly hold the ball, how to angle our bodies to get a basket, and showed us how important it is to look where you’re throwing! we had a great time

In Year three, the boys and girls have been focusing on vocabulary development. They worked together to write adjectives and adverbs to describe what they could see and hear. The boys and girls enjoyed using an online thesaurus to improve their vocabulary. The children used their own word banks to w

In Year three, the children have been developing their inference skills. They watched a video of a drive through a tornado and began by asking questions to the driver of the car. The boys and girls worked together in turns to hot seat the driver and infer thoughts and feelings of those involved. &n