As part of Year 2s topic ‘fresh fruit’, the children have been designing their perfect fruit kebab. Today, they got to make their fruit kebab using a skewer. The boys and girls had to think about the important hygiene rules before preparing their kebabs. Tomorrow, as part of their outdoor learning,
Year one pupils have been studying materials and their properties in Science. Today the children investigated which objects would float and which would sink. They were surprised at some of the results!
The Year 3 tennis team have started their second round of training sessions with the aim of developing their skills further before playing in the Gateshead summer tournament. The children got back into warm-ups before practising forehands and backhands again. It’s helped that the children have
Today, we had a lovely netball coach come in to help us develop our netball footwork and passing skills. We are excited to have our coach all term to lead up to playing some Year 4 matches.
This week, Year 5 were lucky enough to visit Sunderland Winter Gardens to learn more about our topic of ‘Life in the Rainforest’. After setting off bright and early, we took part in a fantastic workshop called ‘Animal Adventures’. We looked around the exhibition and found lots of animals that live i
The year 2 boys showing off our quality compost. The Composters may not be pretty, but designed and built by some of our Year 6’s, they are proving to be very successful. Lined with black plastic to help generate heat, the compost is rotated to ensure waste is fully decomposed. Composter 2 is now
This week, Year 2 have been learning about 3D shapes. After a week of leaning about the properties and language of these shapes, the children enjoyed using a venn diagram to sort some shapes and discussing what the criteria could be. It was wonderful to see the pupils using correct mathematical term
In Year one we were set the challenge of creating a bag that was environmentally friendly and reusable. We decided to use canvas bags and designed and printed a pattern on the front using primary colours. We are so proud of the results and we can’t wait to use them.
In English this week, we began our new book: I AM HENRY FINCH. We read the first few pages which talks about how noisy it is being a finch. The fist time we read the story we had lots of ‘background noise’ so we understood how the finches felt (it was far too noisy to think!). One day Henry Finch wa
Year 3 created a ‘Winter Wonderland’ in their Christmas tree challenge. Meanwhile a rock band took over the stage on the drums and some of the boys sorted our new den building material.
