This week, children from Year 1 to Year 6 were fortunate to be visited by the author Saviour Pirotta. He did workshops with each year group where he talked about some of his famous stories, where he gets his inspiration from and how he plans a narrative. He had children in stitches with his humorous
This week is Children’s Mental Health week, and in Year 5, we have been lucky enough to have a visit from Mrs Cunningham and KS to discuss all matters mental health! The conversation began with the children trying to articulate what mental health actually is, and they showed a great understanding. T
Yesterday we had three teams take part in the Gateshead School Sports Boccia competition. There were 28 teams who took part from all across Gateshead and all of our three teams did really well and gave their all in every single game. Two of our teams got to the semi-finals with Harlow Green C narr
This half term, Year 5 have been enjoying gymnastics during their P.E. lessons. The children have practised combining and performing gymnastic actions, shapes and balances fluently and effectively to make sequences of movement. To begin, the children practised key shapes such as the pike, straddle,
In Science this week, year 5 began a new topic on the life cycles of animals and plants. This topic builds on lots of previous learning about the characteristics of different living things, how they are classified, their habitats and needs for survival. The children grouped animals by their similar
This is the first Reading Stars post since Christmas and takes into account all of the reading the children have been doing in KS2 since January. It has been brilliant to see so many children eager to read, share books and take quizzes on their own books as well as those they have read in school. We
Welcome back to Reading Corner for 2022! We hope that you have had the chance to explore lots of books over Christmas and into January. As a new year begins, new books are published and there are already some strong contenders for my favourite book of the year. Please let us know if you read any of
As part of the Art work being completed this half term, the children in Year 5 have been investigating colour. We discussed what constitutes a primary, secondary or tertiary colour, as well as how to achieve them, before comparing two blue boxes and explaining what the similarities and differences w
This half term, our topic in Year 5 is ‘Life in the Rainforest’, focussing on the Amazon Rainforest, and so far, the children are absolutely loving it! Although we have learned a lot about the rainforest in our English book (‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell), it was our Geography lessons that rea
This week, it has been lovely to see the enthusiasm with which children have shared books that they received for Christmas, or that they read over the holidays. All of the children from across the school were asked to share the book either with their friends, or with the whole class and talk a littl
