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Creating Circuits
In Science, the children in Year 6 have been learning about electrical circuits, including identifying components from their symbols, creating circuit diagrams and predicting and testing circuits. They have then used this knowledge to investigate if the number of...
Space
Reception have been learning all about space. Our focus text has been ‘How to Catch a Star’ by Oliver Jeffers. This story inspired us to write a list of items we might want to take to space with us! We have been very busy in our class as our provision included making...
Road Safety Experts
Today Year 1 and 2 took part in a road safety workshop. We learnt all about the ‘Green Cross Code’ and practised important rules of STOP LOOK LISTEN THINK. We learnt to stop and stand behind a kerb and use our eyes and ears to listen for traffic. We all promised to...
Super Sculptures
Year 2 have been looking at a range of sculptures by the sculptor Anthony Gormley. He has made lots of sculptures of the human form, including ‘The Angel of the North’. We practised sketching human forms in a range of sketching styles and then experimented with...
Les Animaux
Year 3 have been learning how to say 10 animals in French. They have been listening to examples and copying the sounds. We learned how sounds in French can be different to ones in English. We applied our knowledge to spelling tasks and reading tasks. The children were...
Learning about Jesus
This half term the children in Year 3 have been learning about Jesus and how different people have different opinions about Jesus both as a person and what he looked like. The children discussed different parables and stories from the Bible and how these stories...
Terrific Tennis
In PE this half term, Year 6 have had the opportunity to receive coaching from Oli, who is a sports coach from Newcastle United Foundation. During the sessions, the children have been developing their tennis skills and have worked hard to improve their agility,...
Dance lessons
Year 4 have been taking part in dance lessons with our instructors, helping us do some dancing linked to our history topic of World War 2. We worked on our story telling through dance to imagine the feelings of evacuees and soldiers, then today we imagined the joy of...
Exploring musical instruments
Reception listened to the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ by Michael Rosen. We named each instruments and then explored them. We then discussed how instruments can represent a certain mood, character or action. We discussed whether the musical instruments should be...
One part is two, one part is three, the whole is five!
This week in Reception we have been using the part whole model. To deepen our understanding of the composition of numbers we used the part whole model to help us find different ways to make a number. We had a lot of fun making our own part whole model and exploring...
The Three Little Pigs
This week Nursery have been looking at the traditional tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We have been practising retelling the story using story spoons and taking on the role of different characters. Nursery have also been dressing up as either a pig or a wolf to reenact...
Year 2 Class Assembly! 🔥🔥🔥
This afternoon, Year 2 took everyone back in time to 1666 to witness ‘The Great Fire of London’ in their class assembly. The children used their amazing acting, singing and story telling skills to inform the audience of this significant event in history. Everyone was...