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✨ Times Tables Superstars! ✨
Year 4 have been working so hard on their times tables and have been making fantastic progress! These children in particular have more than doubled their scores on their times table booklets from their baseline to their final check! We are so proud of them and love...
Informal multiplications
Today, Year 4 were working on their informal written methods for completing multiplication calculations. They looked at how they could use their knowledge of partitioning, number lines, place value charts and exchanges to work out the answers to a range of questions...
Little Readers 📚📖
Nursery had a very special visitor today. Joanne from Gateshead Library came in to talk to us about her job as a Librarian and how important reading is. Joanne read us some of her favourite books and after we had read the stories together we sang some Nursery Rhymes...
Little Movers
The children in Nursery and Reception have enjoyed their PE lessons with Jemma during their Little Movers sessions. They have been learning to move their bodies to music and keep in time with the beat. They have also learned steps to build on a routine and perform...
Chinese New Year 🐰🎊
Nursery and Reception have currently been learning about Chinese New Year. We have learnt about their traditional Chinese clothing, dances and music that they use and had a go ourselves at making a dragon from junk modelling to preform the dragon dance with musical...
Vikings
Year 5 started their new topic on the Vikings. We recapped what life was like in Anglo Saxon Britain at the point of the Viking invasion. Next we looked at their place in British History, ordering them alongside key events that we have studied in previous year groups.
Super Shapes!
Year 2 have been working hard developing their understanding of shape. They have looked at the similarities and difference between 2d and 3d shapes trying hard to name them and explaining clearly how they know by counting the sides and discussing properties. They...
We are pedologists!
Year 3 have enjoyed being pedologists today. A pedologist is a scientist who studies soil. The pupils had a walk around the school grounds to locate where they could find soil in their locality - we discussed what soil is, how it is formed and why it is important. The...
Dividing with exchanging
Year 3 have been working very hard in maths to divide. Today, they used base 10 apparatus to support their understanding of dividing when exchanges are needed. This followed on from their learning yesterday when the division questions did not require an exchange. I...
Ukulele superstars!
Year 3 are continuing to work hard on learning how to play the ukulele this term. They have been practising different chords and even singing songs as they play. The improvement in their listening, rhythm and musical vocabulary knowledge has been wonderful to see....
Special books
This week, as part of our RE work, the children in Year 1 each brought in a book that is special to them and shared their books with the class. We talked and wrote about why our book is special and then drew a picture of the cover. We then found out about special...
Gymnastics
Year 1 have been learning to work safely and develop technique in the barrel, straight and forward rolls in gymnastics. We made our rolls harder by placing a beanbag between our knees or hands and trying to hold it there as we rolled. We placed a beanbag on our back,...