NEWS
Brilliant Basketball
The Year 3 and 4 Basketball team were outstanding recently when we visited Whickham to compete against other local schools. Their passion, skills and great sporting attitude meant that they came third overall! It was so much fun!
This Is The Way We Brush Our Teeth 🪥
This week we have been talking all about oral hygiene and visiting the dentist. We have learnt how to keep our teeth healthy by eating less sugary foods and practised brushing our teeth with our own tooth brushes. We enjoyed listening to the story Alan's Big Scary...
Investigating wheels, axles and chassis
Today we investigated how vehicles move. We found out that wheels are attached to vehicles by axles. We worked hard to attach fixed axles and rotating axles to different chassis and decided which we preferred and were more secure. We also enjoyed testing them to see...
Snip, Snip, Snip ✂️
We have been practising how to hold our scissors properly and used them to cut paper, card and tissue. We cut along straight lines, wiggly lines and enjoyed doing small snips to make an octopus.
Shape Time
Year 4 have been working hard to learn more about 2d shapes. Ask us about angles, polygons, vertices and shape names. We have lots to share!
The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch
We have enjoyed sharing the story as a class of ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’ as well as investigating other light sources, building our own pulley system and baking lighthouse biscuits.
Bee Netball
Well done to our year 5 and 6 students who took part in a competitive netball tournament at Gateshead Leisure Centre, competing against other Gateshead schools, finishing in 4th position. There was a mix of boys and girls and all players experienced playing in...
Forest Fun
We love forest school! Building, digging and working together outside. We built a fire, used saws and knives and explored the ice.
Moving Sprite Computing 3M
Peace at Last ☕
We listened to the story Peace at last, Mr bear couldn’t sleep because it was too noisy. At the end of the story Mrs bear made a nice cup of tea and we decided it would be lovely to finish our day at nursery with a nice cup of tea just like Mr and Mrs Bear. We sat in...
Multi-skills event
Today 14 children from Reception represented our school in the Gateshead Schools Partnership multi-skills event at Gateshead stadium. It was a super morning and we found the venue to be amazing. Lots of “wows” as we entered the stadium and saw the pitch and track.
Hygienic Hands
In Science we have been investigating ways to keep ourselves clean. We carried out an experiment using different coloured glitter and shook hands with our partners to see how easily germs can spread from one person to another. We then tested different ways of washing...