by Miss Goddard | May 9, 2025 | Art and Design, DT, Early Years Foundation Stage, English, Geography, History, Maths, Science
This term nursery have been very busy learning all about growing. We started off by exploring plants and changes which we could see within the EYFS garden. We discussed the pear tree and how we picked the pear to make compote in September, we identified the buds of...
by Miss Todd | May 8, 2025 | Art and Design, DT, Early Years Foundation Stage, History, Latest News, News, Reception
Early Years have been learning all about Victory in Europe Day today. First we watched a power point teaching us about how important today actually is and why it is celebrated in our country.Nursery and Reception have then made flags either in the writing area, art...
by Miss Goddard | Apr 11, 2025 | Art and Design, DT, Early Years Foundation Stage, History, Maths, News, RE
This week in nursery we have been talking about a family custom which may happen in our house, Easter! We discussed the different things which may happen/ change in our house for Easter. Lots of us mentioned the Easter bunny and chocolate eggs. We used this tradition...
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.
