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Conscience Alley
In the story, Balaclava Boy, the main character is faced with a dilemma: should he steal the balaclava from his friends? The children had to persuade the child to take or leave the balaclava by developing positive and negative arguments.
Finding Fractions in Maths
Today in maths, we explored how to find unit fractions of different amounts. A unit fractions is a fraction where the numerator is 1, such as 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4. We learned that to find a unit fraction of a number, we simply divide the total amount by the denominator....
Roman Songs
We have loved our music lessons with Miss Christie this term. We have made great progress with learning chords on the ukulele and playing a range a different songs. We have also enjoyed singing songs about the Romans. We learned the lyrics to ‘Here Come the Romans’...
Space Soundscapes
In our music lessons Year 2 have been listening to music inspired by space. We imagined that we went on a voyage to space and discussed what we would see and how these would sound. We then experimented with our voices to create noises to match images and made a...
Nursery Love Mini Beasts!
To finish off the term, nursery have been learning about mini beasts. We started off our topic by completing a work shop with Northumbrian wild life trust. We were able to explore mini beasts in investigation jars. We looked at honey bees, spiders, dragonflies and...
Mad about Mini-Beasts.
Reception have been learning all about mini-beasts for their current topic. We started our learning by welcoming Alex from the Northumberland trust into our class, who bought some special friends with her. Alex kindly showed us different preserved insects and taught...
Respecting Rules
In PSHE, Year 2 have been learning about the importance of rules for many different places. We agreed that rules are needed to keep us safe and to help us learn but are also needed to to keep things fair for everyone such as in games like football. We agreed lots of...
Mini Police are Flying High
The Mini Police were thrilled to be invited to the National Police Air Service at Newcastle Airport. Police officers Jake, Adam and Brian transported our mini squad in police vehicles to meet the aircrew. At the airport we met Sam and John, the Tactical Flight...
Dangers of Smoking
This afternoon, Year 4 learned about the risks and dangers of smoking and how much damage it can cause to your body over time. They made notes comparing the harmful effects of smoking and the benefits of remaining a non-smoker.
Acrylic Starry Night Paintings
In Art, Year 3 have been learning about the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh. We then explored his paintings, looking at his techniques for creating colour, shape, texture and movement. After experimenting with acrylic paints, we used his work “Starry Night” as an...
Year 4 Tennis
As part of their PE this half term, Year 4 have been receiving tennis coaching. They have worked hard to develop their confidence and accuracy with the rackets and understanding how and when to use a forehand or backhand swing. This afternoon, they played in teams,...
Developing Dialogue
In English, the children in Year 5 are using the book ‘The Arrival’ by Shaun Tan as a stimulus for their writing. This week, the children acted out part of the story to develop a conversation between two of the characters. The children used expression and actions to...