Year 6 showed off their rope work skills this week. After being taught a timber hitch for anchoring, the children then translated that knowledge into the trees, creating their own rope lines. Securing with simple half hitches to give tension they had to work together to ensure tight and safe lines.
Today was an exciting day at school as an order of books arrived for the Accelerated Reader scheme. As a school, we are committed to providing the children with the opportunity to enjoy books and to read for pleasure. In the Accelerated Reader library we have fiction and non-fiction books; books fro
Is it too early to think about Christmas? Definitely not! Dark nights = curled up reading all cosy in the house! I love the new books that come out each year at Christmas and have developed quite a collection of picture books and chapter stories that are annually read during the festive period – and
This week at school it has been ‘Anti-bullying Week’ and in Nursery we have all enjoyed wearing odd socks! This prompted a discussion about ‘how it is ok to be different, and nobody is the same.’ We read the story ‘Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly’, which is all about two best friends lik
Together in Nursery, we have had a fun-filled busy week. We have been exploring the Indian Culture and the Festival of Diwali. On Monday we looked into the country of India, what animals are there, and discussed the patterns and noises that they make. The children liked dressing up in Indian clothin
Children in Year 6 enjoyed a visit to SafetyWorks! in Newcastle. They learned about various aspects of safety in the home and in the wider community. This included how to keep safe in the kitchen; keeping their bedroom free from fire hazards; crossing the road safely on dark nights; using the metro;
The children were excited to start a new Design Technology project this week. The week started off with some research into how toys move. The pupils had fun playing with pop-up books, Hungry Hippo, wind up toys and toys with a lever mechanism. They learnt that all toys that move need a mechanism suc
Over the last two weeks, the children in Year 6 have been undertaking Geography work linked to their World War Two topic. They used atlases to locate areas in the UK where children had been evacuated from and to, used a London Underground Map to locate German spies using compass directions and locat
In Geography this week, we have been looking at why the world is divided into different zones. We have learnt about circles of latitude and know that the Earth is split into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. We have also looked at different climate zones; Tropical, Arctic, Temperate and Mediterrane
This half term, Year 5 are looking at vector drawing in Computing. To do this, the classes are using drawing tools within PowerPoint. Firstly, the children were introduced to vector drawings and began to develop an understanding that they are made up of simple shapes and lines. Following this, each
