by Mrs Docherty | Oct 11, 2024 | History, News, Year 1
In preparation for our visit to Beamish next week, Hannah came into school to talk about the new ‘Romer Parrish’ toy shop at Beamish which is a replica of the 1950s toy shop in Middlesbrough. We talked about how the toys that we play with today are different from the...
by Mrs Docherty | Oct 10, 2024 | Maths, News, Year 1
Year 1 have been learning that the part-whole model is a pictorial representation that shows the relationship between a whole and its parts. This is useful to help our understanding of addition and subtraction. We used children, beanbags, shapes and animals to...
by Mrs Docherty | Jul 12, 2024 | Science, Year 1
Year 1 have enjoyed taking part in the ’Grow your own potatoes’ project. First, we had to chit the seed potatoes which involved leaving them on a sunny windowsill for 2 weeks. Then, we planted them and left them to grow for 12 weeks. Yesterday, we finally harvested...
by Mrs Docherty | Jun 20, 2024 | History, News, PSHE, Year 1
Year One had a special visitor today – Martin, a volunteer from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He talked about the people who help us to stay safe in the water and what to do if we see someone in trouble. We also learned all about Grace Darling to find...
by Mrs Docherty | May 16, 2024 | News, School Clubs, Year 1, Year 2
Today was the last session of our phonics club. Over the last 5 weeks we have enjoyed playing ‘Race for it!’ and ‘Find it!’ as well as phonics bingo and ‘Dragon’s Den’ (Phonics Play program). We have had lots of fun while practicing our phonics skills...
