Today 3M and 7B represented their school in the Gateshead Dance Festival. The theme this year was courage and dressed as little Pinocchios, the kids showed enormous courage getting on one of the biggest stages in Gateshead. We are immensely proud of all their hard...
Over the past weeks, we have been looking at the first Easter and how Jesus took the bread and wine from the Seder meal he was celebrating, and reinterpretated the meaning of these items for his followers. He told his followers to remember him when they take the...
In Year 5 History we have been learning about the Ancient Greeks. One of our lessons was to look at ‘What were the ancient Greek philosophers famous for?’ We made sure we understood the vocabulary of philosopher, philosophy and debate before we had our own class...
We have begun to group objects and label them using everyday objects around the room. We found different objects that could match the labels that we created.
The children really enjoyed their visit to Cullercoats. They were real live geographers navigating their way around the coastal town. From testing tides to surveying passers-by they showed they had the grit that geographers need. Well done kids!
We enjoyed making our own islands of where we thought Grandad might like to visit. We looked closely at the story to decide what we thought Grandad and Syd might like and incorporated our ideas into our island as well as things we thought were important.
Year 5 had lots of fun taking part in the fitness festival at Thorp Academy. They took part in a variety of activities which included different components of fitness such as: running, jumping, leaping, throwing and catching. It was brilliantly ran by Thorps' year 8...
We measured each others heads, feet and hands and collected the data together. We compared whether if we had bigger hands that meant that we had bigger feet or not. We found out that the bigger feet you have generally meant you had bigger hands.
