This term, our Early Years team held the local authority’s Early Years cluster meeting. The meeting involved working with an artist from the Baltic Gateshead and exploring shapes through different kinds of artwork. People came from local schools and everyone enjoyed investigating and trying out some
In Year 3, the boys and girls have been learning about how shadows change over time. The children made predictions and completed an investigation to explore what would happen to their shadows at different times of the day. The boys and girls had great fun using opaque shadow puppets to block out the
In Year 3 the children have been learning about the advances made by the ancient Egyptians. The boys and girls found out about how the obelisks were used as shadow clocks to help tell the time. The childrens’ learning about how shadows change in science helped them to understand how this could work.
This year, we are taking part in Operation Christmas Child! This is a global project in which gift-filled shoe boxes are distributed to children in need around the world. Gifts to put in the shoe boxes range from toys, clothes or even something homemade! A full list of items that can be included and
Today in year 4, the children have loved investigating how switches in an electrical circuit work. They then worked in groups to create their very own switch for their circuit using everyday objects such as paper clips, split pins and tinfoil!
Over the last couple of weeks, Year 5 have been designing and building bridges to fit a specific brief. We improved our designs over a lesson or two until we were happy with a final design. Building the bridges was fun but challenging, as the joins were quite tricky. Eventually they were tested with
After reading ‘The Little Red Hen’, the Nursery children have been making their own bread rolls. They used their fingers to kneed and stretch the dough before leaving it to rise. The children were very excited to taste their bread when it was baked.
Last month we launched a recycling campaign in school linked to national recycling week (week beginning Monday 24th September). We had two ‘Waste Awareness’ assemblies where the children learnt about the benefits of using rechargeable batteries, how to recycle batteries responsibly as well as th
The Reception children enjoy following their own ideas and interests both indoors and outdoors. They have been making play dough owls, lego spaceships, paper rockets, cameras, houses and mud pies!
In Reception, we have been writing our numbers and counting natural objects. The boys and girls counted pom poms onto the numicon. They are getting very good with their counting skills.
