NEWS
What does Easter mean to Christians?
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...
Newsletter 28th March 2023
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7B’s Decorated Easter Egg Entries
The jobs of our community
Jobs are not just paid but jobs in our community involve looking after nature. This week we role played different jobs as well as taking care of the worms we found in our garden.
Ancient Greek philosophical debate
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...
Year 3 Coast Study field trip
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!
Geographical Fieldwork at the Coast
Girls football
Last week, our girls football team took part in their first ever tournament. Some of the girls have experience playing football outside of school but the majority of the team have started from scratch! They have all worked super hard throughout the year and were so...
Fitness Festival
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...
Super Skylines
We have really enjoyed creating our skylines in Art. We created our backgrounds by blending paint. We then designed our own buildings and cut out templates which we then used to print our buildings. Here is some of our amazing work!
The Maya
Year 6 have started a new unit all about the Maya. They are looking forward to combining their Geography and History skills to find out as much as they can about them. We Started by using our atlas skills to find out about where they had settled. We made predictions...
