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Nurture Group from Year 3 and Year 4 had a fabulous afternoon out to Scotswood Community Garden, where they took part in pond-dipping, learnt about bees and pollination and went on a mini-beast hunt! The children were beautifully behaved and an absolute credit to the school and their families. 
Year 3 had a wonderful time today at Broxfield farm in Northumberland. It was our first trip since the beginning of the COVID pandemic. We started the day by going on a tractor ride into a field of cows! We then ventured into the fields and saw learnt how a combine harvester cuts the ears… Continue Reading
Last Term, our Nursery children enjoyed looking at Traditional Tale Stories. We talked about the different characters and how each story has a beginning, middle and end. We did lots of exciting activities linked to each story including making up our own characters, choosing our own ending to the story and tasting yummy gingerbread men. … Continue Reading
This week in Year 4 nurture group, we have been creating art inspired by trees. We have been learning how to use chalks to create different effects. As you can see, Charis enjoyed the blending part very much! Continue Reading
As part of our PSHE Recovery Curriculum, every Wednesday afternoon our Nursery and Reception Class children have joined together to take part in circle time activities, music and ring games. As you can see we have had lots of fun in the school hall! Continue Reading
Today we had a wonderful liturgy for our parents and guardians to finish off our topic on ‘Pentecost : Energy.’ We have recorded our liturgy and uploaded it on youtube for all our families to watch at home. All children read beautifully and showed reverence. Please click on the link below to view our special… Continue Reading
Nurture Group is currently looking after some caterpillars which will grow into Painted Lady butterflies. To make sure they have plenty of food when we release them, we have planted a butterfly garden in the Key Stage 1 yard. This is mainly made up of herbs such as marjoram, oregano and thyme which apparently these… Continue Reading
We had an amazing afternoon with Rob from Zoolab. He came into our classroom with a variety of animals for us to examine. This helped us with our work on classifying animals into different groups. With Rob, we looked at a snake, a giant land snail, a frog, a tarantula, a hissing cockroach and two… Continue Reading
We have some new members of the group in Year 4 Nurture Group- 5 caterpillars! We will be watching them go through their life cycle before releasing them as Painted Lady butterflies when they finally emerge from the chrysallis in a few weeks time. Today we looked closely at the caterpillars and made sketches of… Continue Reading
Year 3 Nurture Group are currently taking part in the RSPB Wild Challenge. Over the coming weeks, they will be taking part in various activities that help them learn more about British wildlife and that also help the wildlife living in our school grounds. This week they were learning about the different habitats of minibeasts… Continue Reading
