NEWS
MHA Christmas Fayre 3rd December
Please see the links below regarding the MHA Christmas Fayre in Crawcrook on 3rd December. This charity supports the elderly in our community.
Taking care
On Monday in welcome time discussion turned to ‘how do birds get fed in the winter’. We discussed how there are less mini beasts, we discovered this at forest school, and the berries are dying off. We decided to make bird feeders to care for our birds. We watched...
Year 6 – Orienteering
Today, year 6 went on an orienteering trip to Thorp academy. When we got there we got put into groups and were assigned two young leaders from year 7, some of which we knew because they went to our school! The first task was a practice round to get familiar with the...
Sorting recycling using density and flow charts
As part of our science enhancement, we are learning about recycling for the next 6 weeks and this week, we have used flow charts to sort and identify plastics using basic tests. We also used density towers to sort material and see what density the object is to sort...
Sequencing our story
We have enjoyed reading our new story for this half term - The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad. We have contributed to class discussions about what it means to be proud of something or someone. This week we began to sequence our story to prepare us for our big write...
Division
This week in Maths, we have been learning about division in. We know that to divide means to share into equal groups. We started by dividing bean bags into 2 equal groups and we recognised that this was the same as halving. We then went on to divide counters into 5...
Athletics silver medals!! Congratulations!
Wow! What an afternoon we have had at the Gateshead indoor athletics competition. 20 children from year 5/6 were selected to take part in this competitive event, competing in track and field events. Each school was working as a team, rather than individual events. The...
Visit to TESCO
Thank you very much to Rowlands Gill TESCO for donating the contents of our shopping list for our ‘Bonfire night chocolate breadstick sparklers’ cookery. While there we explored the different aisles, looking at how things were stored and the cost of items. We had lots...
What a fantastic surprise!
Identifying Trees
We went on a tree hunt in our school grounds and used their leaves to identify them. We know that a deciduous tree begins to lose its leaves in Autumn but an evergreen tree keeps its leaves all year round.
Where in the world is the UK?
We have been using atlases and globes to find the continents and oceans of the world. We also identified that the United Kingdom is a country within Europe.
Families North East Magazine
Please click the following link to the November and December issue of Families Magazine. ...