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Category Archives: Science and Technology
Planting Sweetpeas in Year 3
Today we all planted a sweet pea seed. We placed the seed in compost and made sure it had plenty of water to drink. Our seeds need sunlight, water and warmth to survive so we will make sure we look after our seedling every day. We also placed one seedling in a dark cupboard, one… Continue Reading
An Audiologist visits Y4
We were very lucky today to have a visit from Claire, an audiologist from the team at NE1 Hear at the Freeman Hospital. Claire talked about the different parts of the ear, let us try a bone-mounted hearing aid, taught us how to look after our hearing and even showed us the inside of one… Continue Reading
Pond Dipping at Forest School
In Year 5 Nurture Group we have been exploring different habitats through activities and play. This week we went pond dipping, climbed trees and played games. We had a great time! Continue Reading
Patterns
Reception have been learning about patterns. They hunted for patterns in the outdoor area and found lots of repeating, stripes and shape patterns: We also looked closely at natural patterns in tree trunks and logs and created their own observational drawings as well as investigating patterns in honeycomb and representing the pattern using printing techniques.… Continue Reading
Easter Baskets Design and Technology in Year 3!
We really enjoyed designing and making Easter baskets! We will use them to carry home our Easter chocolate treats. We used basket cut outs as a base and used tissue paper and coloured pencils to decorate our baskets. In addition to this, we added paper flower buds, pearls, diamantes, buttons, ribbons and Easter shapes. We… Continue Reading
The Big Quiz
Year 1 and Year 2 had an exciting morning taking part in St Lawrence’s Big Quiz. The children were put into teams and were asked questions based upon what they have learnt in History, Geography and Science. Mr Brown, our quiz master, asked questions set by Miss Murray and the children worked together in their… Continue Reading
Big Quiz 2022 in Year 3
What an exciting morning we had today! We took part in our first ever Big Quiz. The Quiz involved working in teams to answer key questions from our previous History, Geography and Science topics. The topics covered included: The Stone Age, Newcastle and London and Animals Including Humans. There were also some bonus rounds which… Continue Reading
Year 3 trip to Beamish 2022
Today we had a wonderful trip to Beamish Museum! We were transported back in time to the Victorian era, as we dressed up as Victorian school children. We experienced a Victorian lesson in the Beamish Board School where we had to work completely in silence! Next we walked into the town and visited the terraced… Continue Reading
ESH Group Visit Year 1
Year 1 had a super Science session this week. Kate from ESH Group came to visit us. She talked to us about the different jobs in construction and gave us the opportunity to role play some of the different occupations. We got to dress up with helmets, high visibility jackets and safety goggles. Kate… Continue Reading
