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This year for World Book Day, Mrs Garforth looked at ‘Pugs of the Frozen North,’ by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Each class from Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 learnt a little bit about the fantastic story about Shen and Sika and a pug-pulled sleigh ride to the North Pole! We… Continue Reading
Year 1 and Year 2 have enjoyed taking part in a story reading carousel today to celebrate World Book Day. We came into school dressed in our own clothes. We enjoyed choosing and reading story books. We enjoyed listening to four different stories. We completed lots of different activities about the stories. We had… Continue Reading
Year 6 had a fantastic 1st day as part of a week-long project with IntoUniversity Newcastle East. The scheme – in partnership with Newcastle University and Northumbria University – is designed to give children a glimpse into life at Further Education. Year 6 are following an engineering syllabus this week, which includes a trip to… Continue Reading
This week Reception have enjoyed exploring our key text Handa’s Surprise. They used cooking tools to prepare the fruit themselves and loved tasting the fruit! They then used the experience to complete some fantastic writing to describe the fruit! Well done Reception! Continue Reading
Today Year 2 enjoyed taking part in a ZOOM with our penpals from Belsay school. We are taking part in The Linking Project which links schools from different geographical environments. Both schools read the book; Incredible You; We thought about the things which make us unique. We recorded these on a book work. We also… Continue Reading
It is a very exciting time in Reception! The children are becoming more confident with their super phonics skills and they are applying them in their play by writing words independently. We are very proud of all your hard work! Well done Reception! Continue Reading
When is a stick not a stick? If you ask Reception I am sure they will share lots of ideas! As part of our literacy curriculum the children have been using their imagination to change sticks into lots of different objects. They have also been using their fantastic phonics knowledge to record their ideas in… Continue Reading
Reception had lots of fun in the snow! They practised writing their name and letter sounds in the snow. It was a great opportunity to explore the changes in the seasons and allowed us to reflect and compare with our melting ice investigation last week. Continue Reading
On Friday we enjoyed a fabulous story writing workshop at Live Tales, part of Live Theatre, We worked with a team of writers, illustrators, directors and playwrights to create our own story. We had such a wonderful time and impressed the editor, who had originally believed that children couldn’t write exciting stories – we soon… Continue Reading
We have enjoyed a busy few weeks in Nursery! The children have learnt lots of new skills and taken part in a range of activities linked to our ‘All about me’ and ‘Autumn’ topics. We have read many stories but a particular favourite was ‘Leaf Man’ by Lois Ehlert. The children were introduced to printing… Continue Reading
