Curriculum

Reception have been learning about deciduous and evergreen trees. We looked in detail at different types of Christmas trees, the children looked closely at each branch, needle and cone. They noticed each branch often ends in a woody bud, that some have longer softer needles but others can be quite s

In our RE lessons, the children have been learning about Advent.  They welcomed Reverend Dani and Reverend Elaine into school from St Ninian’s Church, who spoke to them about their jobs within the local community.  The Reverends taught the children a song about Christingles and then they explained

Yesterday Afternoon 10 of our Year 5 and 6 children too part in the Gateshead Panathlon Challenge which was held at Gateshead College.  8 Schools took part and  we had  to take part in all the challenges some of the challenges involved throwing, running, jumping and reaction games. Our Children d

The various components for our story telling performance are beginning to come together. This week the children worked with the residents to paint and then decorate the birds in the story. Using acrylic paints to give a base colour and then feathers added for detail. Finally many of the birds were a

Thursday, was an extra special day in Reception Class! We bundled up warmly and trotted off to the postbox to send our letters to Santa. With big smiles and hearts full of excitement, we carefully dropped our letters into the bright red postbox, dreaming of all the lovely presents we might get! Whil

In Reception this week, we welcomed a special visitor. A lady from Dogs Trust came to teach the children all about being safe around dogs and understanding their body language. She taught the children how to ask the owner’s and the dog’s permission to be stroked, this is especially important for

This week has seen the start of our art block of work.  It all started with learning about primary colours.  Every child coloured a red, yellow and blue primary colour wheel.  The colouring was so neat!   Next the children investigated how they could print with primary colours.  They used obje

This week in Nursery we started the first of our Christmas activities. We enjoyed listening to a story called “letters to Santa” and began by thinking about how we could write him a letter giving a list of presents we would hope to get for Christmas this year. We then spent time, across the week

In English lessons this half term, Year Six have been looking at a short animation called ‘The Piano’. The video is of a man playing a tune on a piano and reflecting on the memories in his life. The children enjoyed looking at clues to predict what the man’s memories might have been. They considered

Maths games form a key part of our curriculum in Mathematics and over the last couple of weeks, the children have enjoyed taking part in a number of games based tasks involving their number skills. This term we have looked at systems in patterns – sorting, ordering, arranging and predicting using pa