by Miss Goddard | Mar 28, 2025 | Art and Design, Early Years Foundation Stage, English, Geography, History, Maths, News, Science
Following our trip to the farm, we were very excited and inspired about what we had seen. We used this excitement to inspire our learning this week. In our tuff tray, we sorted animals into ‘live on a farm’ and ‘do not live on a farm’ categories. We strengthened our...
by Mrs Gaukrodger | Feb 19, 2025 | History, News, Year 3
Year 3 have really enjoyed our local history topic, The Birtley Belgians. We learned that during WWI, Belgian refugees came to work in the National Projectile Factory in Birtley. To house the refugees, a self sufficient village was built in Birtley called...
by Mrs Armstrong | Feb 18, 2025 | History, Year 5
In our lesson on the Vikings this week, we investigated how England eventually became unified under King Cnut. We sorted the information to identify how the events of different rulers led to the establishment of England.
by Miss Goddard | Jan 31, 2025 | DT, Early Years Foundation Stage, English, Geography, History, RE
This week nursery have loved learning all about Chinese New Year. We started off our learning by reading the story: ‘The Great Race’. From this story we learned that 2025 is the year of the snake. We watched videos which told us all about how Chinese New Year is...
by Miss Goddard | Jan 20, 2025 | Art and Design, Computing, DT, Early Years Foundation Stage, English, History, Latest News, PE
Wow Nursery have been working their socks off this week learning all about dinosaurs for our blaze the trail unit. We started by looking at different species of dinosaurs and their characteristics such as: how many limbs, what they eat and how they move. We practised...
by Miss Goddard | Jan 10, 2025 | Art and Design, Computing, Early Years Foundation Stage, English, Geography, History, PE, Science
This week we have been learning all about winter and the changes which happen at this time of year. We started off by observing the changes which have happened outside in our nursery garden. We noticed that all the leaves on the trees and bushes had fallen off and...
