This week, 50 brave children from Years 5 and 6 took part in the annual Gateshead School Sports Dance Festival at The Glasshouse International Music Venue (formerly The Sage). This year the theme was Equality and it was an incredible night with a whole range of schools taking part from across Gatesh
Year One had a fantastic time at Beamish this week and luckily, the rain stayed away all day! The children were thrilled to be going on a coach at last and after an immensely exciting bus journey, we arrived at Beamish. We tried to visit as many places at Beamish as possible. We started off by r
In PSHE, Year Two have been learning all about their bodies and how they change as they grow. To begin, the children learned about things that can help their body and things that can harm their body. The children looked at a range of products and decided which would be helpful and which would be har
This half term, the boys and girls have been learning all about branching databases. They began by finding out about how yes and no questions can be used to group and sort objects and had a go at generating some of their own. They then worked in pairs and used yes and no questions to separate a grou
In computing, this term, the Year 6 children have been learning about spreadsheets. Firstly, the children were introduced to data, the different types and how it can be organised within a spreadsheet. Following this the children learnt to create formulas to use in their spreadsheet using cell refere
This week in Nursery we have started learning all about the celebration of Easter. We listened to the story Little Dove and the Story of Easter. The story helped us learn the meaning of Easter (apart from the Easter bunny and chocolate eggs!) We learnt how some bad men wanted to hurt Jesus and left
Year 6 have worked so hard on their debris shelters and were really excited this week to build fires near them. They made sunken fires following a “no trace” fire making format. Some used the fire bowl to protect the tree roots where they had dug down. Others decided to have a go at a no trace fir
The pots and mushrooms have had their first bisque firing in the kiln, this hardens the clay to make a more durable form. The clay is now dry and porous, so will need glazing to add colour and seal the surface. Lindsey explained and demonstrated the process, then the children and residents chose th
John, one of the Angel Court residents, has a passion for gnomes. He has joined a new walking group on Fridays, which he is really enjoying but we know he misses seeing the children each week. With that in mind we thought it would be a nice surprise to make some gnomes for him and place them in t
This week there has been a buzz of excitement in school as the author and actor ‘Chris Connaughton’ has visited all of the children. It is not often that a visitor can work from Nursery all the way to Year 6 and leave all of the children mesmerised – but Chris has managed to do this with his stories
