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Brilliant Basketball
Year 5 had a fantastic time when we visited Lord Lawson to take part in a basketball competition with other local primary schools. Everyone worked really well in their teams with excellent passing, receiving, dribbling and shooting skills on show. We all had a...
Dice Battles
In maths club Year 2 have had lots of fun with dice. They have played a range of games using addition skills and trying to beat their friends in a dice battle! The children had to add quickly and explain strategies but also to try to predict what they need to roll to...
Solid, Liquid or Gas?
To begin their new science topic, ‘States of matter’, Year 4 looked at a range of materials and tried to decide if they were an example of a solid, liquid or a gas. They had a go at sorting first using their own knowledge, then they were given more defining qualities...
Little Red Riding Hood.
This term Nursery have started looking at traditional tales. We started this week with Little Red Riding Hood and explored the story by looking at the characters and learning the repetitive phrases. We have then had lots of fun dressing up as our story characters, in...
Market Research
This term, Year 4 are creating felt bookmarks as their DT project. Today, they did some market research, looking at felt bookmarks that are available to buy.They thought about the price including the cost of materials, and the design, including how difficult it would...
Year One Mathematicians!
Last week the children were learning how to use base ten to support their learning of teen numbers. Base ten is a really useful resource that the children will reuse a lot throughout the year. They were brilliant at identifying how many tens and ones were in each teen...
Games Club
Reception and Year 5 have been enjoying taking part in games club. We have been taking turns and sharing. We have been learning the rules for each game and discussing strategies on how to win. Year 5 have been great role models to reception.
Varmints
This half term, the children in Year 6 are reading the book, ‘Varmints’ by Helen Ward and Marc Craste. They will be writing a descriptive narrative using the book as a stimulus focusing on atmosphere. To support this writing, the children have been identifying how...
Roll and Spell 🎲
Year 2 have been working hard practising their spelling. This week we played a dice game which helped us to remember the spellings. This is a fun and easy game to play at home!
Investigating Introductions
In English the Year 3 children have been exploring their new text for this half term ‘A Giant Dose of Gross.’ The children have been learning about features of a non-chronological report and how our book is structured. The children were given a selection of...
Sports Coaches
Throughout the year each class has the opportunity to complete PE lessons lead by a coach. We have Oli from the Newcastle United Foundation who covers a range of skills which link to a range of sports such as handball, tennis and athletics. This half term we have...
After School Sports Clubs
We have been lucky enough to have a sports club every week ran by NUF coach Oli since September this will continue until the end of summer. We have also recently added a dance club for Spring term to allow the children to learn additional skills which may be new to...