In our Geography work this term, the children have learnt about the characteristics of a desert region and how the River Nile supports life in Egypt. While learning about the River Nile, the children have labelled a map of its journey through Egypt. They have learnt about different types of flooding
Year 6 have been started a block of work about the beliefs and customs associated with the Jewish faith. This week, they have been researching some of the key symbols, the place of worship, holy book (The Torah) and important figures. they had to produce a fact-file to demonstrate their knowledge. A
Christmas has officially begun this week in our classroom! The children started this week by listening to a video from Santa explaining that he would like to receive a letter in Lapland from the children regarding Christmas presents. The children then enjoyed exploring our new Christmas post office,
This week in Design Technology, Year Two have been designing and making their own toy fire engines. First, the children researched existing toy fire engines and thought about what they liked and disliked about some different designs. Then, they used this to help them to design their own toy fire eng
This week, the children in Reception have been taking part in National Nursery Rhyme Week. This year, the suggested rhymes were B-I-N-G-O, The Big Ship Sails on the Alley, Alley, o, Twinkle, Twinkle, 12345 Once I Caught a Fish Alive and 5 Little Speckled Frogs. The children enjoyed performing thes
The children began this week by receiving a mystery parcel, which turned out to be a letter and a toy Humpty Dumpty from the REAL Humpty Dumpty. The letter kindly asked the children to help Humpty to sing Humpty Dumpty and to find him a new coat that will stop him from cracking if he falls off anoth
In PE, Year Two have been learning a dance routine to Thriller by Michael Jackson. First, the children learned that a piece of music is counted in beats of eight. To find the beat, the children clapped in time to the song. Then, it was time to get into character. The boys and girls thoroughly enjo
This week in PE, Gail from Skipping School joined us to start our skipping journey. This is part of a wider scheme in school to get more children skipping as part of our commitment to 60 active minutes a day, supporting children in their development of fine and gross motor skills and also getting ch
The children have been working extremely hard during our Multiplication and Division block in Maths. They have been learning how to make equal groups and arrays and have started to use the mathematical vocabulary: factor, product, multiplicand and multiplier. This week the children have been learn
This week was the first time Year One had a Geography lesson. We talked about where we live. Some children said that they lived in Gateshead whilst others were able to say their address. The children learnt that we all live in a country called England. We found it on a globe and realised that Englan
