Curriculum

26Sep2024

In Geography, Year Two have been learning about maps and compass points. They have also looked at human and physical features in our local area and identified them on a map. First, the children learnt that a map is a flat picture of an area seen from above. They found out that maps contain symbols t

20Sep2024

Yesterday, Year 5 took a trip to the Breamish Valley in Ingram to explore how the river has had an effect on the surrounding landscape as well as looking at features of rivers such as the speed and depth. After a long bus ride, the classes split off in to two groups. Across the day, the children got

20Sep2024

Everyone in Year One enjoyed our history lessons this week during which they have been learning about Mary Anning, the first person in England to excavate dinosaur fossils. They firstly listened to the story ‘Dinosaur Lady’. They then became artists and drew a detailed portrait of Mary Anning.

20Sep2024

Over the past few weeks, Year 3 have been hard at work learning all about light during their science lessons. They began with a blind fold challenge to understand the importance of light.  As part of their job, they investigated which materials would be the most reflective – perfect for designing a

20Sep2024

In maths, Year Six have already completed a unit of work on place value and are now working on calculations. During the Place Value unit of work, the children have developed a clear understanding of what each digit in a number represents within ones, tens hundreds, thousands up to ten million. They

19Sep2024

In Computing, Year Two have been learning all about Information Technology (IT). They found out that information technology is a computer or something that works with a computer.  To begin, the children worked with a partner to name lots of different devices, including a laptop, camera and smart sp

18Sep2024

Our PE topic of Gymnastics this week progressed onto jumping at heights. Over the term, we have looked at key shapes, balances and this week jumps.  We refreshed previous learning about landing and jumps on the ground, and today we introduced various heights and turns in to our jumps.  Again we ha

13Sep2024

This week in Year 5, we moved onto our next topic, and for the next two weeks, we are going to be learning all about rivers. To start off our new topic, the children used atlases to identify and locate the most famous rivers in the world. They were given a blank map with rivers from each continent.