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Moving Vehicles
In DT, Year 2 where given the challenge to design and make a moving vehicle. They began by investigating different types of vehicles and learning about wheels, axles and chassis, then everyone designed their own vehicle. There were racing cars, delivery trucks,...
Jewish Law
Year 2 have been learning about the Torah and its importance to Jewish people. We learned that although Moses was given Ten Commandments, there are actually 613 laws in the Torah. Today, we learned about Jewish dietary laws. We learned that Jewish people eat food that...
Constructing Castles
We are really proud of our finished castle designs. In DT, we have learned the use and names of different features of a castle. We then designed our castles to meet the design criteria of being strong and stable, having a flag and including at least one 3D shape we...
Sound Patterns
This term Year 1 have been looking at different sound patterns in our music lessons. They can now recognise different sound patterns and know how to represent them using symbols. Next lesson we will be looking at how to play different sound patterns using the musical...
Bugs ‘n’ Stuff Workshop
We loved having Guy from Bugs n' Stuff come to visit us in school during our Science Week. Every class had the opportunity to look, touch and hold a wide variety of creatures - a giant millipede, cockroaches, a gecko and a python to name just a few! We saw how a...
Investigating the size and shape of shadows.
Today Year 3 investigated shadows. We drew around our shadows on the playground at 9.30am, 12.00pm and 2.15pm. Before each session, we predicted what they would look like and afterwards we discussed our results. We learned that the length, width and position of the...
Science Week – The Story of Earth Assembly
As part of our Science week activities, Reece from the Street Scientists team , who is a student at Newcastle University, came into school and shared an assembly with our children in Years 1 - 6 about the story of Earth. He showed the children, using ropes, the...
Super Scientists
In Science, the children in Year 5 are studying the topic ‘Properties and Changes of Materials’. They have been learning about soluble and insoluble materials and how mixtures can be separated. They have enjoyed investigating using filtering, evaporation and sieving...
Vincent Van Gogh Sunflowers
This week we have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh. We started off our week by discussing what an artist is, then looked at some of his work and talked about the colours we could see. Within our continuous provision, we enjoyed using Van Gogh’s famous sunflower...
Nursery Explore Bugs!
Today we had a very special visitor in school, Guy from Bugs'N'Stuff! During this workshop, we were able to explore and learn about lots of different animals which live in the rain forest. We talked about the different habitats of these animals and what they eat. We...
Masters at Measuring
This week Year 2 have been using a ruler to measure in cm. We learnt that it was really important to start from zero when measuring and lining the ruler up correctly. We measured a range of objects in the classroom and recorded the length to the nearest cm. Our next...
Football Festival
Girls from year 1 and 2 enjoyed participating in a football festival at Gateshead Stadium this morning. We rotated around the stations enjoying football based games and skills. It was lots of fun and the children were all very well behaved.