All this term we have been reading “Stone Girl, Bone Girl”, a story about the life of Mary Anning. Everyone has enjoyed listening to her heroic tale and has learnt so much about her life and her amazing discovery. We decided to write newspaper reports about her excavation of an Ichthyosaurus. Firstl
Thank you to all parents and carers who supported us by collecting food donations for the charity Feeding Families. Once again, we are blown away by your generosity. Feeding Families were thrilled with the donations and will be making Christmas hampers to support people in our community. Our Righ
This half term, the boys and girls in Year 3 have been learning about rocks and soils during their Science lessons. The children have identified that there are natural and human-made rocks and they have learnt about the three types of natural rock; igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. Investigation
The children in Year 6 have been studying an animation called ‘The Piano.’ This animation has an elderly gentleman playing the piano whilst flashing back to key moments from his life. This week, the children have been doing lots of inference work to think about how the man feels and have been imagin
We headed out into the clear, crisp, frosty morning, first a game of sticky feet. Whenever the leader shouts “Sticky Feet!” the children group together, joining up their feet. Once in the circle we talked about woodland creatures, the children pick an animal and discuss it’s recognisable characteris
In Computing, Year Two have been learning all about photography. To begin, they sorted devices into those which can take photographs and those which can’t. The children quickly realised that these devices can be found all around us – on roads, in buildings and, of course, on phones and tablets. Afte
The children in class 2B have enjoyed Art Club this half term. They got creative through a range of cutting, colouring and drawing activities. In December, they experimented with tie dying, They tied a piece of white fabric using elastic bands and then used a dip dying technique to colour thei
To begin our Christmas festivities, the staff and pupils came to school dressed in their Christmas jumpers. They all enjoyed school Christmas lunch, which our cooks from Gateshead School Meals Service, worked so hard to prepare. Everyone enjoyed a lunch of roast turkey, mashed potato, roast
Our Forest School wanted to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth by taking part in the The Queen’s Green Canopy, this project is proud to be creating a living legacy with over a million trees planted in Her Majesty’s name across the nation during the first planting season, October 2021 to March 20
It has been a busy few weeks at Angel court, where the children, residents and artist, Neil Canavan, have been building the new henhouse. It takes pride of place in the Platinum Parterre sensory garden we’ve created to celebrate the Queens Jubilee. This community space encourages the residents to co
