World Book Day 2025
What a fantastic day we had on Thursday to celebrate World Book Day! Take a look at our photographs below to see what some of our classes got up to! Reception Year 1a Year 1b Year 2a Year 2b Year 4a Year 4b
NSPCC Number Day 2025!
What a fantastic day we had on Friday to celebrate this years NSPCC’s Number Day! The whole school enjoyed a day dedicated to Maths and we managed to raise lots of money for the amazing charity! – take a look at our photos below to see what we got up to! Nursery Our children in … Continued
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.
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
Panathlon Foundation Deaf Multi Sport Event
Last week, five of our Year 5-6 pupils attended the Multi Sport event at the Lakeside Centre in Killingworth. This was a perfect opportunity for our children to practise their sign language and learn so much more about communicating with sign language. As usual, our children were exemplary, and managed to come away from the … 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 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!
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
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
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.