Our School choir, lead by Mrs Holt, have been sharing the joy of song in our local community. First stop, St Ninians Church. Some of the choir were asked to light the advent candles with the curate, George Lackenby, then the performance began. The church was filled with festive songs and despite the
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
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
Thank you to all parents and carers who supported us by collecting food donations for the charity Feeding Families. Once again, we are blown away by your generosity. Feeding Families were thrilled with the donations and will be making Christmas hampers to support people in our community. Our Righ
We headed out into the clear, crisp, frosty morning, first a game of sticky feet. Whenever the leader shouts “Sticky Feet!” the children group together, joining up their feet. Once in the circle we talked about woodland creatures, the children pick an animal and discuss it’s recognisable characteris
Our Forest School wanted to honour Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth by taking part in the The Queen’s Green Canopy, this project is proud to be creating a living legacy with over a million trees planted in Her Majesty’s name across the nation during the first planting season, October 2021 to March 20
It has been a busy few weeks at Angel court, where the children, residents and artist, Neil Canavan, have been building the new henhouse. It takes pride of place in the Platinum Parterre sensory garden we’ve created to celebrate the Queens Jubilee. This community space encourages the residents to co
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
A wet and woolly day for Year 1. They are enjoying learning about construction in nature, how animals keep themselves safe, what materials they might need, what shapes we might see. Thinking about animals and birds that nest, they searched in the woodland for twigs and leaves to create nests of thei
Today we were lucky enough to have visitors from Costain who came in to talk to the children about the ongoing improvements being made to the A1 and how it has impacted on wildlife. Our visitors were called Mark and Emma and first of all they talked about the importance of roads and what we use them
