Events and Visits
Nursery Explore Bugs!
Today we had a very special visitor in school, Guy from Bugs'N'Stuff! During this workshop, we were able to explore and learn about lots of different animals which live in the rain forest. We talked about the different habitats of these animals and what they eat. We...
Football Festival
Girls from year 1 and 2 enjoyed participating in a football festival at Gateshead Stadium this morning. We rotated around the stations enjoying football based games and skills. It was lots of fun and the children were all very well behaved.
The Bug Man.
Reception had a visit from the ‘The bug man’ this week. We spent the afternoon learning about some interesting facts about mini beasts from around the world and we were all super brave at touching and holding the animals. Reception also sat very smartly and quietly to...
Geography Field Trip
Year 6 have been investigating the links between population, traffic and litter. We used a Likert scale to interview members of the public about how they felt about the local area and used tally charts and sound recordings to capture the flow of traffic. We have then...
The Easter Story at Birtley Methodist Church
The children in Year 5 visited Birtley Methodist Church to learn about the Easter Story. At the church, the children re-enacted parts of the days before the crucifixion , including welcoming Jesus into the town and visiting the temple. The children had the opportunity...
Gateshead Dance Festival
A huge well done to Year 3 who performed their dance ‘Make That Change’ at The Gateshead Dance Festival at The Glasshouse. We were a bit shocked to find we were first up to perform, but that didn’t stop our amazing class of dancers from producing a fabulous...
Reception’s Farm Trip.
Reception have had a great day today on our farm trip to Hall Hill Farm. We held chicks, bottle fed lambs and met lots of other animals, whilst learning facts about them. We also enjoyed a tractor ride and got to play outside in the big adventure park, because of it...
Nursery Go to The Farm!
What a fantastic day we have had at Hall Hill Farm! We were able to hold lots of different animals such as chicks, rabbits and guinea pigs. We then fed goats, sheep, lambs and donkeys. We talked about the names of animals and how some animals have different names if...
World Book Day
Nursery have loved coming to school in their pyjamas for World Book Day. This week we have been reading the story ‘The Colour Monster’. We worked as a team to create our own colour monster front page cover. This then inspired us to make our own colour monsters in the...
Quicksticks Hockey
This afternoon, some children from Year 3 and Year 4 were invited to take part in the SSP’s Quicksticks hockey tournament at Lord Lawson. They formed two teams and played three matches each within their groups. We had some great goals scored and some incredible...
Little Movers
Reception have had so much fun this half term with our coach Gemma from Little Movers. Little Movers is great for us, as not only only does it keep us fit and healthy, but it helps our hand and eye coordination, fine motor skills and gross motor skills as well as our...
Visit From Birtley Library
This week nursery had a lovely visitor from Birtley library. She came into our nursery to read us some stories! We decided as a class which story we would like to read first. We loved showing different types of faces and predicting what will happen next. We loved...