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
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 huge thank you to the amazing Paul Cookson who visited us today and performed some of his poems.
What a fantastic day Mrs Edge’s class had at Gibside this week. The sun was shining and it was lovely to spend the day outdoors.
What a great day our Key Stage 1 children have had today. We started our morning making lemonade using lemons, sugar and water. We then chose from different ingredients to make a sandwich of our choice. We had the choice of ham, cucumber or cheese! This afternoon, we went out into the yard with our … Continued
Yesterday, we enjoyed an amazing visit to Long Sands beach in Tynemouth. We started our adventure by travelling on the Metro to Cullercoats, which for many of our children was their first experience of travelling on the Metro. The sun was shining and we enjoyed building sandcastles, playing cricket and football and having our picnic … Continued
This week we attended an audience with the poet Paul Cookson at Caedamon Hall. We laughed until our sides hurt and learned so many unusual facts through poetry. We particularly enjoyed participating in some performance poetry, learning the moves to ‘Toilets Have Teeth’ and ‘Cubic Poo!’ We were fascinated to see just how quickly a … Continued
As part of our commitment to sport at Carr Hill, we run an after-school football club every week. The children have really improved their skills and play over this half term and our coach is very impressed with their progress and the children are thoroughly enjoying it. Well done everyone!
This half term we have been lucky enough to welcome Jason Korsner into school to visit our Nursery, Reception and Year One children. Jason is a children’s author who shared his books ‘What Can You See?’ which uses simple rhymes to introduce children to the world around them and ‘I Like To Put Food In … Continued
A huge thank you to all our parents and carers who were able to join us for our Key One craft session yesterday. We really enjoyed having so many of you join us in school and your children loved spending this special time with you. It was so nice to see you working alongside your … Continued
