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Swords, Shields and Segedunum!
Year 3 had an incredible time during our visit to the Roman Fort - Segedunum. We explored the fascinating remains of the Roman wall and fort, gaining a real senses of what life was like for Roman Soldiers stationed there.
Year 2 Stay and Make.
This term, in art, year 2 have been looking at the artist Henri Rousseau. He is best known for his amazing paintings of jungles. Today, we used his art work as inspiration to make our own jungle collage using a range of different materials. We used so many ideas and...
Changes in our Local Area
In our geography unit, 'Are all settlements the same?' we have been learning what settlements are and how land is used in our local area. This week in geography, we have been exploring how land use has changed over time. Using OS maps from 1921, 1967 and the present...
Sports Day 2025
A huge well done to the children in Year 1, 2 and 3 for participating in their Sports Day. The children worked so hard in all their races and showcased great enthusiasm and sportsmanship. Everyone had great fun and the winning house this year was Team Baltic! Thank...
Newsletter 4.7.25
Newsletter 4.7.25
Fantastic Fun at Ford Castle
For our residential this year, the children in Year 5 and Year 6 had the opportunity to visit Ford Castle in Northumberland. The children who came on the residential took part in a challenge course, zip lining, group games, rifle shooting, trapeze, water raft making,...
Life in Ancient Greece
For our history topic this term, Year 5 are studying ancient Greece. We have been learning about city-states such as Sparta and Athens and how each state was ruled by either a monarchy, oligarchy or democracy government. In order to find out about what life was like...
Key Stage 2 Sports Day
Key Stage 2 have had a fantastic Sports Day this morning! The children demonstrated great teamwork, resilience and respect. Well done!
Coding Micro:bits
In Design and Technology, Year 3’s design challenge this term is to create a piece of “Wearable Technology” that would help children stay safe. In Computing lessons we learnt to code Micro:bits to make l.e.d. lights flash, scroll and activate when buttons are pressed....
Year 3 Stay and Play
On Monday 30th June, Year 3 parents were invited to join us for an art and design lesson. We have been looking at “Plant Art” as part of our Sculpture unit and in this session we made clay flower bowls. It was lovely to see such a big turn out. Thanks to all who...
Hindu Beliefs
Year 1 have started our new RE unit ‘What do Hindus celebrate?’. We learned that Hinduism is one of the oldest religions in the world. We found out that Hindus worship lots of different gods, even though they believe that there is one Great Power. We learned about...
Countdown Cricket.
Today our amazing Year 3/4 cricket team were meant to be playing in a cricket competition alongside other Gateshead schools at Felling Cricket Club. Unfortunately, due to the weather forecast the event had to be cancelled. The team had worked extremely hard preparing...