NEWS
Do you want to build a snowman?
In our English lessons, we've been learning all about the features of instructions. Today, we used everything we've learnt to write our own instructions on how to build a snowman.
Learning all about fractions at home…
As we are such experts on Google Classroom and using the Kami tool, we are able to use visual representations such as bar models and part whole models to help us represent fractions greater than 1
Virtual music
In 5/6A, we were lucky enough to attend a virtual musical concert with 4 extremely talented musicians - Back Chat Brass! We watched and appraised the concert and we loved it 🙂
English – non chronological reports
In 5/6A we have been working hard to write interesting and informative non-chronological reports all about the mysterious world of Pandora. We have worked on a number of writing skills such as relative clauses, parentheses and subject specific vocabulary! Non...
Home Learning Tips for Parents
I think all of us would agree that home schooling is tricky at times and children don't always want to do their school work, which can lead to frustration and stress - this is what happens in my house at least! One reason can be that children see a big list of things...
Hands On Approaches to Well-being
Gateshead Psychology Service have been sharing some great resources and sources of information, one of which is this link to a CAMHS (Children and Adult Mental Health Services) website. It has loads of useful information about how to support children and young people...
Safer Internet Day is on the 9th February 2021…
We have been learning about how to stay safe online...
Birdwatching
In Early Years we love going outside and looking at the birds we see and are very fortunate enough to see the beautiful Red Kites often flying above us. We all got involved in RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and we all went out to see what birds we could see in our gardens...
Spring Online Book Club now open for orders
World Book Day 2021 is on Thursday 4th March and to celebrate it, Rowlands Gill Primary School will be hosting an online book fair. As we are unable to welcome everyone on-site at the moment due to COVID restrictions, we will be hosting our book fair virtually so that...
Cross-stitching
Today, in our life skills lesson, we have been learning how to do a running stitch and a cross stitch.
Helping out
Looks like one of our children had a very keen pet to help him write his story mountain. I think they were both doing a great job!
Marshmallow 3D shapes!
In our maths lesson today, we were counting how many vertices there are on 3D shapes (that's a tricky word for 'corners'). To help us, we used cocktail sticks for long sides, matchsticks for short sides and marshmallows for vertices and we made a range of 3D shapes....