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
Year 3 Visit Saltwell Park
Our Year Three children had a great time at Saltwell Park last week. They were exploring the plant life as part of their science work this half term.
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.
Year 3/4 Visit the Great North Museum
Year 3 and 4 had a fantastic visit to The Great North Museum! We extended our knowledge of The Egyptians. We learnt about the different classes in Ancient Egypt and this was brought to life by exploring the artefacts!
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