On Wednesday, some of our Year 4/5 girls took part in the Gateshead Girls Football Tournament. They had a fantastic afternoon and displayed wonderful sportsmanship. Their hard work paid off and one of our teams secured bronze medals after coming 3rd out of all the teams that competed. Well done to all of them.

This week we have been learning about the 2 different types of trees. The children were excellent at identifying deciduous and evergreen trees in our school gardens and they were able to explain how they could identify the tree based on its leaves.

Year 1 have started to take a closer look at plants this half term. We have been discussing the different parts of a plant and ventured out into our gardens to see if we could spot any leaves, stems, flowers, roots, trunks and buds on the flowering plants and trees. We were amazed at how […]

Year 1 have been practising their net and wall skills this half term.

Year 1 enjoyed a morning out of class to join many other local schools at Gateshead Stadium to participate in a KS1 Multi Skills Disney event.

Year 2 children had a wonderful day at Beamish Museum where they got to experience life in a Victorian classroom which included standing to speak to answer a questions and addressing the teacher as Ma’am. The sun shone so they were able to enjoy their lunch outside in the grounds.

Last week, year 1 loved their day out at Northumberland Zoo. We had the opportunity to observe many animals and learnt about their diets. The children were able to share which animal group each animal belongs to, as well as if they are herbivores, omnivores or carnivores.

Year 6 were lucky enough to attend the Commonwealth Ceremony at Gateshead Civic Centre. Elizabeth read the commonwealth pledge beautifully then we were invited in to the council chambers with the Mayor of Gateshead. We asked her questions and learned about her job as Mayor of Gateshead.

Year 6 had a fantastic day at Cardinal Hume where they spent the day rehearsing a play which they then performed for their parents at the end of the day. All of the children were amazing and demonstrated some fabulous acting skills.

Year 6 had a great time at Alnwick Gardens. They played Adventure Golf, visited the poison garden and explored the Labyrinth.

Today, Year 3 had a violin lesson in school. We learned how to hold our violin and use our fingers and the bow to make sound. Look how much we enjoyed ourselves!

Year 3 had a great time on World Book Day! We were lucky enough to be involved in a live lesson led by author Joanna Nadin. We listened to her read a chapter of one of her books and then she answered some questions. We learned that it takes Joanna 22 days to plan and […]

Year 6 have enjoyed working on their frames for a motorised vehicle. We have safely used saws and enjoyed joining all of our components together. For our next step, we will use our knowledge of electrical circuits to attach a motor and switch element.

Year 2 have been working hard with our two artists Megan and Elizabeth over the last few weeks. The children completed their amazing ‘rolling moon’ artwork using clay and then decorating with paint. They were then painted and once they were baked in the oven were glazed.

Year 1 have been exploring print making using the rubbings method. We enjoyed discovering the effect that different textured objects could make to our art rubbings. We have explored our classroom and our outdoor area.

Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed investigating the different materials submerged into a tub of water. We used words including buoyant and submerge to describe what was happening to each object. We used our knowledge of materials and their properties to make sensible predictions.

During our art lessons over the past couple of weeks, year 1 have been getting creative by replacing paint brushes with our hands and feet to make large scale collaborative paintings.

Year 1 had a surprise visitor just outside of their window this morning. We loved watching the squirrel search for water, however we discovered that it was frozen. We all enjoyed putting some fresh water out.

Year one have been learning all about odd and even numbers. We have used Numicon to help us recognise the ‘odd one out’ and group our numbers to 10 into odd and even groups.

Our KS1 Aiden children enjoyed our first dry day of this year on our school climbing frame. Let’s hope we have a lots more dry days in 2024 so that all of our children can enjoy the frame!

Year 1 have been developing their understanding of numbers within 100 by grouping items into 10s. We have then used our knowledge of counting in tens and ones to find out how many cubes we had in total.

Year 1 would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas

year 1 have been learning all about the 4 seasons and their effect on deciduous trees. We have decided to use this as the theme of our New Year Calendars.

We hope you all enjoyed watching our KS1 nativity performance of Whoops-a-Daisy Angel.

Year 1 have been enjoying learning about the artist Joan Miro. We have analysed his early work and created our own versions.

In maths this week, year 1 have been learning all about shapes and how they can be used to create different images. We enjoyed creating tangram images and investigate tetromino and pentomino arrangements.

Year 1 have just started to learn all about everyday materials. We have been thinking about what each object is made from and used describing words shiny, dull, hard and soft to describe and sort the different objects.

Year 1 have been learning all about their 5 senses. We looked closely at our sense of smell and investigated if we could identify an item based off its smell. We found chocolate and coffee the easiest.

Year 1 have been spending lots of time practising their sending and receiving skills. This week, we have been focusing on dribbling the ball, sending and stopping the ball. We are getting very good at using our bodies to change direction and using the inside of our foot to kick the ball.

The tag rugby competition was such fun!  Fourteen of us went to Dryden fields to compete.  We won all our matches – one was won by 8-0!!  We came first in our group and all receive medals and a place in the finals. The whole event was very exciting and we all had such a […]

Year 5 are currently reading and enjoying Goodnight Mr Tom. A trip to Beamish helped the children to experience how Tom felt as an evacuee. They learnt all about the jobs they would have to do on the farm including collecting eggs, looking after the animals and cleaning the animal enclosures. They also met the […]

Mrs Thompson and Mrs Fraser took 15 Year 2 children to Gateshead Stadium to take part in the indoor athletics festival.  All the activities were dinosaur themed, and the children took a very enthusiastic part in all events. There are some speedy runners and amazing throwers in our Y2 class.  Well done to everyone who […]

Year 1 enjoyed a visit to Beamish Museum.  They experienced life in the classroom where they found out what school was like in Victorian times.  They did find it rather strange that they could not smile or laugh and that they had to stand up when answering questions.  I think they enjoyed always having to […]