This week in Design Technology, Year Two have been designing and making their own toy fire engines. First, the children researched existing toy fire engines and thought about what they liked and disliked about some different designs. Then, they used this to help them to design their own toy fire eng
This week, the children in Reception have been taking part in National Nursery Rhyme Week. This year, the suggested rhymes were B-I-N-G-O, The Big Ship Sails on the Alley, Alley, o, Twinkle, Twinkle, 12345 Once I Caught a Fish Alive and 5 Little Speckled Frogs. The children enjoyed performing thes
In PE, Year Two have been learning a dance routine to Thriller by Michael Jackson. First, the children learned that a piece of music is counted in beats of eight. To find the beat, the children clapped in time to the song. Then, it was time to get into character. The boys and girls thoroughly enjo
This week in PE, Gail from Skipping School joined us to start our skipping journey. This is part of a wider scheme in school to get more children skipping as part of our commitment to 60 active minutes a day, supporting children in their development of fine and gross motor skills and also getting ch
The children have been working extremely hard during our Multiplication and Division block in Maths. They have been learning how to make equal groups and arrays and have started to use the mathematical vocabulary: factor, product, multiplicand and multiplier. This week the children have been learn
This week was the first time Year One had a Geography lesson. We talked about where we live. Some children said that they lived in Gateshead whilst others were able to say their address. The children learnt that we all live in a country called England. We found it on a globe and realised that Englan
In D.T. over the last week, the year 6 children have designed and made a working Morse Code transmitter. To begin with, the children had to learn what a Morse Code transmitter was used for. Following this, they designed their product. The children could remember how to create a circuit using their k
This week, Gail from Skipping School spent time with us, helping the children from Years 3-6 develop some skipping techniques. This is part of a wider scheme in school to get more children skipping as part of our commitment to 60 active minutes a day, supporting children in their development of fi
Year 6 visited Safetyworks in Newcastle to learn about various aspects of safety in the wider world. The purpose built centre, has a number of scenarios including a metro station, road and a house full of hazards that could lead to a fire. The children were asked various questions about how they wou
This week we have started our DT topic ‘The Rail Project’. The aim of this project is that we will create an electrical moving train from scratch! We began the week looking at George Stephenson and his amazing impact on the history of railways and explored his revolutionary invention ‘The Rock
