Archive 2021-22

19Mar2022

Understanding Religions This week Reception learnt about the Hindu festival of Holi, which is a Spring festival of colour. In art we used many colours of paint and powder to create splatter paintings and explored colour mixing with primary colours. We practiced developing our scissor skills by cutti

18Mar2022

Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed their first trip in 2 years to the Sunderland Winter Gardens and Museum. As part of their spring topic ‘Life in the rainforest’, and their geography topic about world biomes, year 5 took part in a rainforest workshop. They learnt about the different layers of a rainforest:

18Mar2022

Everyone is so happy that spring is finally here. This week Year One took the opportunity in a science lesson to find signs of spring outside. First of all, we noticed that the weather is becoming warmer and the sun is shining for longer during the day. Then the children discovered that new buds are

18Mar2022

In Computing, Year Two have been learning all about pictograms. To begin, they learned how to use a tally to record a total number of objects. Together, we made a class tally chart to find out what Year Two’s favourite fruit is – strawberries! Next, the children found out that a tally chart can

17Mar2022

The boys and girls in Year 3 have enjoyed using different units of measurement to explore length and height.  To begin, they used 30cm rulers to measure in centimetres and millimetres.  Then they used metre sticks to measure the length of objects in the playground, recording their answer in metres

13Mar2022

Gingerbread Man To celebrate World Book Day, we have been looking at Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales all week, our favourite stories have been 3 Billy Goats Gruff and The Gingerbread Man. The children received a letter from the Old Women in the story of the Gingerbread Man asking for help as her Ging