Year 3 Discover a Mysterious Package!

Year 3 have had a incredibly unusual morning. We got a phone call to go check out the main hall as there’d been a mysterious package discovered. We have used our deduction skills to work out what could be inside using the clues on the box. In doing so, we used a range of conjunctions … Continued

Year 5/6 Penathlon

Some of our Year 5/6 children took part in a penathlon this week at Gateshead College. They showed great sportsmanship and thoroughly enjoyed it!

Key Stage One Christmas Craft Day

What a lovely day we’ve had today for our Christmas Craft Day. Today has consisted of making our annual Christmas calendars and cards. We also made a special Christmas decoration! We are all now looking forward to Wednesday for our parents Christmas Craft afternoon!

Winter RUNderland

Winter RUNderland is our Christmas themed, physical activity challenge, that all of the school can get involved in. Every Christmas Eve, Santa Claus travels around the globe to deliver presents to all of the worlds’ children. Of course he doesn’t do this alone and relies on his trusty reindeer to help him! They get tired … Continued

Science in Year 3

In Science, our Year 3 children have had the amazing opportunity to work with Northumbria University, looking at Sports Science and linking our curriculum to real life jobs including: We used these skills to perform a range of exciting activities with a partner. One partner was a sports scientist, the other was a data analyst: … Continued

Positive Noticing

Last Friday, we spent time during the day thinking about the power of ‘positive noticing’. Positive noticing is a simple, practical and highly effective system to help raise the self-esteem of our pupils. We spent the day encouraging pupils from Nursery to Year 6 to positively notice one another! There was a buzz around the … Continued

A Visit to SafetyWorks for Year 6

What a fantastic day our Year 6 children had at SafetyWorks last week. SafetyWorks is an interactive safety centre which provided our children enjoyable learning experiences which enabled them to participate safely in realistic situations which illustrate every day hazards and how to prevent them. The children met the RNLI and learnt how to call … Continued

Measure Twice, Cut Once!

As part of our Design and Technology work in Year 5/6, we have been practising precision measuring, careful sawing and construction to make 3D frame structures.