by Mrs Lewis | Jun 10, 2025 | English, Geography, History, Latest News, News, Year 1
What a fantastic day we have had! Today we visited St Mary’s Island as part of our English unit ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch.’ We began the day rock pooling, we managed to catch some fish, edible crabs, shore crabs, hermit crabs and even a star fish that looked just...
by Mrs Docherty | May 16, 2025 | English, School Clubs, Year 1, Year 2
Year 1 and 2 children are enjoying phonics club after school on Thursdays to help prepare them for the phonics screening in June. Last week we loved playing phonics bingo and were experts at spotting the digraphs on our bingo boards.
by Mrs Docherty | May 16, 2025 | News, Science, Year 1
Year 1 have been exploring everyday materials in science. We have been looking at a range of materials and their properties. We found out about which materials floated and which materials sunk. We used this knowledge to build a boat that could float. We tested our...
by Mrs Lewis | Apr 7, 2025 | Music, News, Year 1
This term Year 1 have been looking at different sound patterns in our music lessons. They can now recognise different sound patterns and know how to represent them using symbols. Next lesson we will be looking at how to play different sound patterns using the musical...
by Mrs Docherty | Apr 5, 2025 | Events and Visits, News, Science, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
We loved having Guy from Bugs n’ Stuff come to visit us in school during our Science Week. Every class had the opportunity to look, touch and hold a wide variety of creatures – a giant millipede, cockroaches, a gecko and a python to name just a few! We saw...
by Mrs Armstrong | Apr 4, 2025 | Events and Visits, Latest News, Science, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
As part of our Science week activities, Reece from the Street Scientists team , who is a student at Newcastle University, came into school and shared an assembly with our children in Years 1 – 6 about the story of Earth. He showed the children, using ropes, the...
