by Mrs Gaukrodger | Mar 18, 2024 | Classes, RE, Year 5
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...
by Mrs Gaukrodger | Mar 5, 2024 | Classes, Geography, News, Science, Year 5
Year 5 have enjoyed a fantastic visit to Washington Wetlands Centre. We were able to explore the different areas and saw a huge variety of wildlife. We walked out to Hawthorn Wood and visited the hide there. By sitting quietly, we were able to see lots of different...
by Miss Howe | Feb 8, 2024 | Classes, News, PE, Year 4
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...
by Miss Howe | Jan 26, 2024 | Classes, News, Science, Year 4
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...
by Miss Howe | Jan 18, 2024 | Classes, News, PSHE, Year 4
As part of their PSHE topic this term, Year 4 have been looking at emotions. Today, they thought about how emojis can be used to show a range of emotions in messages. It is important to look at the context of the whole message, the person and the situation.
by Miss Howe | Dec 6, 2023 | Classes, Latest News, News, Science, Year 4
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...