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Steady Hand Games
In DT, the children in Year 6 have been using their knowledge of electrical circuits to design and create steady hand games. The children choose a theme to base their ideas around and created a challenging wire shape. In order to play their games, they created...
Birtley Heritage Group Visit
The children in Year 3 have been learning about the Birtley Belgians and the impact they had on supporting the First World War as part of their history lessons for Spring term. They have enjoyed seeing old photographs as evidence of The National Projectile Factory...
Celebrations in Early Years!
Nursery and Reception have worked so hard this week learning about three different celebrations. Both classes started the week completing activities around Pancake Day. We made pancakes in the playdough, while adding delicious toppings, used our cutting and gluing...
Dodgeball
The children used their skills to apply to a mini match of dodgeball. The children were on two teams and had to attempt to hit the other children with their dodgeball. The children were very good at aiming and throwing.
Overheard on a Saltmarsh
The children in Year 3 have enjoyed exploring the poem ‘Overheard on a Saltmarsh’ by Harold Monro. The children have explored the characters of the goblin and the nymph and used their voices in different ways when performing the poetry.
Brilliant Bookmarks!
Year 4 have been working hard on their DT skills of designing, creating and evaluating with their bookmarks. They learned new sewing skills and created some fantastic bookmarks!
The big blue ocean
This half term Year 1 have been learning lots of new musical vocabulary such as pulse, rhythm, dynamics and tempo. This week they all showed how well they understand this by singing our 'Big Blue Ocean' song using different dynamics (quiet and loud) and changing the...
North, East, South and West
As part of our Geography unit this term 'What's the weather like in the UK?' Year 1 have been learning how to use various maps, atlases and Google Earth. Yesterday the children identified the compass on our classroom map, so we decided to find out what this was all...
A throne fit for a king!
This half term in DT Year 1 were set the task to design, make and evaluate a throne fit for a king and what a fabulous job they made! They began by drawing out their designs and testing out some different attachment strategies. They then moved onto cutting and...
Performing Poetry
Today, Year 2 began reading reverso poems by the American poet Marilyn Singer. A reverso poem is a poem in 2 parts that tells a story. The words are the same in each verse but reversed and spoken from a different perspective or character. The children tried very hard...
Amazing Maths
Year 2 have had an amazing time creating arrays to represent and support them with multiplication.
Perfect Predictions
As an introduction to their poetry topic, Year 2 have been hard at work investigating the front cover of their new book. They looked closely at the cover of ‘Mirror Mirror’ by Marilyn Singer and used excellent prediction skills to say what they could see, notice and...