Our Fun Day at the Post Office! This week has been so exciting in our reception class! We read The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, and it was so much fun to see all the different characters he delivered letters to. Inspired by the story, we decided to set up our very own role-play post o
To continue our History topic of Anglo-Saxons, Year 5 took a trip to Jarrow Hall! After arriving, Year 5 were split into two groups. The first group was taken around the functioning farm at Jarrow Hall and looked at animals that would have been used on an Anglo-Saxon farm. Despite the cold, the chil
On Thursday, Year 5 had the amazing opportunity to participate in a workshop centred around designing a temporary shelter for homeless people. To start the day, Year 5 met the team they would be working with throughout the day and heard an important story of someone who had been homeless to get a fe
In one of our Maths lessons this week, we set the children a challenge. They had to investigate different combinations of numbers to make an exact total. The boys and girls were presented with a question: ‘Which skittles must they knock down to make 5 and then 6?’ The children used doubl
In RE, the boys and girls have been learning about the importance of Moses to people of the Jewish faith. They enjoyed listening to the story before ordering the events and verbally retelling it to their partners. The children were all very curious and asked some great questions along the way. They
Over the last two weeks, in DT, the children in Year 6 have made a working Morse Code transmitter. Firstly, they had to find out what a Morse Code transmitter did. After this, they designed their product. The children remembered how to create a circuit using their knowledge from Science and applied
Even the ipad struggled in the low temperatures and cold finger tips makes taking photos tricky, but here is a round up of this weeks adventures in our Forest School. Year 3 created Blobsters. In class they listened to a traditional tale of how Mother Nature created our planet, she pushed her hand
In PE, Year Two have been learning how to play dodgeball. They learned that dodgeball is played with two opposing teams on either side of the court. There is not one, but two, aims in the game. The first is to eliminate players from the other team, by hitting them with the ball. The second is to avo
In PE this half term we have enjoyed two sports….one being Boccia (an inclusive version of bowls) and we have just started golf! We have been using all of our crazy golf seaside experience to start to perfect our golfing stance, the correct ways to hold the clubs and then how hard or gently to str
Last Thursday our Year 5 and 6 Indoor Athletics teams took part in the Gateshead SSP Indoor Athletics Finals which was held at Gateshead Stadium. We qualified a few weeks ago which meant we were one of 10 schools to take part. Our team was made up with 12 boys and 12 girls and they all worked to
