In Year 3, the boys and girls have been working creatively in a group to plan their own challenging game. The children were given a choice of equipment and they had to decide on rules and strategies to make their games fair, safe and fun. The boys and girls then described their games to the rest of
Year 6 have started to play netball in their P.E. sessions. They have been learning the difficult art of pivoting when they catch the ball to avoid a foul for footwork. They have been able to use chest, bounce and javelin passes successfully and are beginning to think about space in small-sided game
Year 6 have been learning about verb tenses and what the past and present progressive mean. They played a game with dice where they needed to create a sentence in the correct tense form to gain a point. They were playing really well (past progressive). We are hoping that they remember it (present pr
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.
