Year Two Visit the Library

Last week, the children in Year Two enjoyed a visit to the library to selected some books to bring back to school. They also got to enjoy a scavenger hunt and a story telling session with one of the library staff.

Key Stage One’s Marathon Finale!

On Friday we joined together as Key Stage One to complete our final run our Mini London Marathon challenge . With ‘Local Hero’ playing and our friends cheering us on we completed our final 8 laps. The atmosphere was eclectic and the children completed their marathon in style. Well dine to everyone who took part, … Continued

Y1B & Y2B Visit the Library

Last week Year 1B and 2B visited Gateshead Library. We had a great time finding out all about the Library. First we completed a scavenger hunt where we had to look for different books then we got to choose our own book to borrow. We took our books back to school and enjoyed reading them … Continued

Exploring Flora and Fauna

Our new topic in art is called ‘ Flora and Fauna’ and we will be exploring how to create collages throughout this half term. However, to start our new unit of work we looked closely at some plant and animal life, sketching carefully with a black pen. Here is some of our fantastic art work!

Enjoying our Mini London Marathon

The children in Year 1B have had a great week clocking up their running miles. The children’s fitness levels have got better throughout the week and the children have done a great job of supporting and cheering each other on. We can’t wait for our final day of running on Friday when we will be … Continued

Wonderful Watercolours

In Key Stage One this half term we have been exploring and experimenting with watercolour paint. We have investigated how we can apply paint to paper and move it around. We especially enjoyed using the ‘wet on wet’ and splatter techniques. We then looked at the work of Paul Klee, exploring the colours and shapes … Continued

Branching Databases

As part of our Computing lesson we had to explore the difference in closed and open ended questions. The children then had to generate their own questions to create their own branching database.

Science Day in Year One

The children had a great day on Science day! They got to enjoy a visit from Newcastle University street scientists and they got take part in some fascinating science activities throughout the day. The activities the children took part in included making rocket mice, exploring shadow puppets. creating their own moon dough and making and … Continued