Over the past few weeks the children have been learning about surrealism, magic realism and abstract art through the artist Joan Miro. They have studied a variety of paintings and sculptures, and discussed their ideas and opinions on his artwork. They then went on to...
A huge thank you to our volunteers, Mr and Mrs Allchin, who have been sprucing up our eco garden, ensuring all weeds are removed and planting a range of new bulbs and plants. The bulbs are beginning to sprout, as we approach the spring and the children can't wait to...
This term the children have been learning all about pets in French. They have also been adding the colour and names to the sentences. They have translated a French story. They used their skills with new vocabulary to help, and also used the pictures to give clues ...
4B and 7B have had a fantastic morning singing in the community. The residents really enjoyed seeing their smiling faces and hearing lovely singing voices.
This half term we have been celebrating differences in PSHE. We have been learning about how actions and words affect us and others’. We have done lots of discussion work about how to take care of other peoples’ feelings and to try to see things from their point of...
Year 4 really enjoyed 'no pen day!' In English, we had a spelling race then we described scenes from our class text. Each group stood at the front and described the scene using expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials and the 5 senses. The rest of the class then held...
Year 4 have done fantastic in their PE units this Autumn term with the children working hard and having lots of fun to develop their physical literacy in Hockey, Tag rugby, swimming and most recently handball! Hockey: Year 4 developed the skill of push passing in a...
Year 4 have had an amazing time at the Oriental museum in Durham today. We learned so much about the Ancient Egyptians! We took part in 4 interactive workshops, which included: A guided tour around the museum Handling of artefacts (we learned how to be real...
