Last year, as a school, we created an Interfaith calendar to celebrate the traditions and celebrations of different faiths and cultures within our community. This year, Year 5’s focus is on the Sikh religion. We looked at the Sikh festival of Hola Mohalla and the celebration of Guru Nanak’s life. Ye
In Year 4 this week, the children have been learning all about advent in RE. They learnt that ‘advent’ means the arrival or the coming and Christians spend this time preparing for Jesus. The children then learnt how different countries around the world celebrate advent. In the UK, children often rec
Over the last two weeks, the children in Year 6 have continued to look at some important festivals in the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashanah ‘The Head of the Year’ celebrates the beginning of the year. Unlike our New Year, it is a solemn festival and is celebrated in late September. The children hav
This week, children from Reception to Year 6 enjoyed a music workshop by the fabulous band from Gateshead Music Services. We were entertained with Santa Time! and jokes, Twelve Days of Christmas, dancing Santa and of course full sing-a-longs of all our favourites which we sung very loud! The chi
A final Reading Corner post for 2023. there have been so many great book recommendations throughout this year – from the children and from me. I hope that you have been able to read some of the books. The Christmas holidays are a great time for reading – there is so much free time and it’s so cold t
As the nights get colder and winter sets in, the reading effort from the KS2 children has been fantastic. all of the children have been doing assessments, which have highlighted the progress they have made this year. The use of Reading Plus and Accelerated Reader are essential components for the chi
In Year 3, we have been designing and creating Christmas decorations for our design and technology project. The children carefully designed their stockings and identified the materials they would need to complete their designs. To join the felt to create their stockings, the boys and girls have lear
This week in PSHE, Year Two have been learning about how to work co-operatively. The children thought carefully about what it means to work as a team and they identified that it is important to work together to achieve their goals. They discussed the fact that we can use our own strengths to help
This week Year One have been learning all about the first ever Christmas. The children listened to the Nativity story and then drew a picture. Some even wrote some sentences to accompany their work. Later we learnt about the traditional Christingle services that take part in Christian churches
In PSHE this half term we have been looking at self-esteem, persistence and resilience. We have learned about what self-esteem means, why we need it and how it can be affected by things like bullying, social media, our peers and things we see on the TV. We looked at things we have done in life t
