Early Years Foundation Stage
Miss Goddard and Mrs WilkinsonWelcome to Early Years Foundation Stage
Online Safety Session
This morning, we offered parents and carers a face-to-face online safety information session. We discussed the results of a recent KS2 internet use survey and how to keep our children as safe as possible when online.We directed parents and carers to our 'Digital...
Knowing and learning with nustem
The children in Nursery and Reception were lucky enough to have a visit from Mel from Northumbria University. Mel introduced our nustem session focusing on being a marine engineer. We learned that we need to be curious, creative and resilient when completing our...
Thank you Morrisons!
We had a wonderful surprise this week from our local supermarket Morrison in Birtley. To help us celebrate World Book Day, they kindly donated some amazing stories for our school which we will share amongst classes. Thank you to Morrisons for supporting our community...
Library Visitors. 📚
Today for World Book Day, Reception had a special visit from some Librarians that work in our local Library. The Librarians told us all about their special job at the Library and about looking after all the books. Then we spoke about what costume we were wearing for...
Poetry
Please watch Reception answer questions and perform the poem ‘Where Does the Bounce Come From?’ By Michael Rosen. Reception also performed their poem to Nursery. To listen to the full poem, please click the link below. ‘Where Does the Bounce Come From?’ By Michael...
Little Learners.
This has been such a busy half term for us and we have been learning about a lot of new topics. Both Nursery and Reception started this term by learning all about Chinese New Year. Nursery have then been focusing on traditional tales, which included The Three Billy...
Safer Internet Day!
Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people.This year, Safer Internet Day celebrated with the theme ‘Want to Talk About it?’ to encourage and inspire national...
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...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Nursery and Reception have been learning about Traditional Tales. We have been focusing on The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We re-enacted the story using story language, built a bridge out of Duplo, blocks, bricks and crates and we created a collage of the Troll....
Exploring Shape
We have been exploring shape this week. The children have been learning to identify and name common 2D shapes, such as, circles, triangles, rectangles and squares. We made robots using 2D shapes and we went on a shape hunt around school.