Making African Masks in Year 3
To launch our Africa topic in Year 3, we have recreated masks from various parts of Africa. We looked at their design, purpose and meaning. We made some wonderful, bold masks and shared them with our friends.
Music Workshop
Last week, both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 were invited to a music workshop, sharing local music by our wonderful Gateshead’s Music Service.
Kindness at Christmas
With Mrs McNally in PSHE this week, our Year 3 and Year 4 children have been focusing on Showing Kindness at Christmas. Christmas is a time when people make an effort to be generous, loving and kind to others. We thought about different ways we could make a difference during the festive period and created … Continued
Carr Hill Winter RUNderland – Week 2
Well done to all of the classes taking part in our Winter RUNderland challenge. In the last 2 weeks, children from across the school have taken part in a variety of physical activities, including swimming, the Daily Mile, yoga, football, basketball, and much more. We saw children from across the school take part in 5,900 … Continued
Carr Hill Winter RUNderland – Week 1
Our first week of our Winter RUNderland challenge saw children from across the school take part in 2,300 minutes of physical activity across the week! This is an amazing start to our challenge! Santa was so impressed by our efforts to help his reindeer, that he sent us all postcards! Keep a look out for … Continued
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
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
Paul Cookson Visits Carr Hill!
A huge thank you to the amazing Paul Cookson who visited us today and performed some of his poems.