Events and Visits
We are Solar Physicists!
As part of our STEM week, we had a visit from Mel at NuSTEM to talk all about the role of a solar physicist.We learned that 'solar' means to do with the sun and about what elements we can find in our sun. We looked at the light spectrum and discovered that only some...
Online Safety Session
This morning, we offered parents and carers a face-to-face online safety information session. We discussed the results of a recent KS2 internet use survey and how to keep our children as safe as possible when online.We directed parents and carers to our 'Digital...
Visit to Angel of the North and Newcastle Keep
Year 1 enjoyed a fantastic day out as part of our geography work on local landmarks and our history work on castles. We loved visiting the Angel of the North which is celebrating its 25th birthday and also spotting local North East landmarks such as the Tyne bridge,...
Little Readers 📚📖
Nursery had a very special visitor today. Joanne from Gateshead Library came in to talk to us about her job as a Librarian and how important reading is. Joanne read us some of her favourite books and after we had read the stories together we sang some Nursery Rhymes...
Chinese New Year 🐰🎊
Nursery and Reception have currently been learning about Chinese New Year. We have learnt about their traditional Chinese clothing, dances and music that they use and had a go ourselves at making a dragon from junk modelling to preform the dragon dance with musical...
Christmas Crackers
The children in Years 3 and 4 had an absolute blast today at their Christmas party. They danced, sang, played games and ate party food until they dropped! All children (and staff) were in excellent festive spirits and whole-heartedly enjoyed the celebrations with...
Christmas Choir in the Community!
Children from years 3-6 have had the opportunity to be part of the school choir. The pupils have shown real commitment by dedicating one lunch time a week to practise songs in their own time. Each Wednesday, the children have shown up full of smiles and raring to go....
Christmas Nativity
Nursery and Reception were phenomenal in their Christmas Performance this morning! We are so proud of all the children. They were able to remember all the words to the songs, they remembered the actions and their words. They have all worked so hard over the past 3...
Marvellous Music
Nursery and Reception had a special treat this week. Mrs Christie the music lady came to visit us with her ukulele. We followed the instructions really well and had fun practising repeated patterns, tapping our knees and clapping our hands to the rhythm of the song....
Meet our Mini Police Team
We are very excited to have had our first session with Northumbria police officers Tia and Josh. The children had a very exciting time sitting in the police car and exploring the buttons on the dashboard and finding out just how loud the sirens were. We can't wait for...
Year 6 Assembly
Year 6 transported us back to Victorian times when they performed their class assembly on Friday. They shared their excellent knowledge of the Victorian era and helped us understand what life was like back then. Queen Victoria herself made a special appearance...
Rugby Tournament
On Friday afternoon, Year 6 had the pleasure of representing the school at Gateshead School’s annual rugby tournament. Both teams played brilliantly and won many of their games. Well done Year 6!