The Easter Story

The Easter Story

Year 5 were invited to Birtley Methodist Church to learn more about the Christian story of Easter.We learnt about the last few weeks of Jesus’ life and how this became the celebration of Easter. We first learnt about Jesus arriving to town on a donkey- unlike any...

Dance lessons

Year 4 have been taking part in dance lessons with our instructors, helping us do some dancing linked to our history topic of World War 2. We worked on our story telling through dance to imagine the feelings of evacuees and soldiers, then today we imagined the joy of...
Solid, Liquid or Gas?

Solid, Liquid or Gas?

To begin their new science topic, ‘States of matter’, Year 4 looked at a range of materials and tried to decide if they were an example of a solid, liquid or a gas. They had a go at sorting first using their own knowledge, then they were given more defining qualities...
Higher or Lower?

Higher or Lower?

Today, as part of their sound topic, Year 4 investigated how to make higher or lower pitched notes on a range of musical instruments. They noticed the pattern of what changed the pitch and were able to make accurate predictions about the pitch of instruments they had...