NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>Today we role played the Gospel of Matthew 3:13-17 in Year 2, the story of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist. We also annotated art work representing the scripture, thinking about how the different people felt that day.</p>

<p>Since we returned to school after Christmas, we have been looking at Performance Poetry in Year 2. We have rehearsed, discussed an annotated a variety of performance poems. All children have had a chance to perform the poems in class, either in groups, solos or with a partner. It has been a different and challenging [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had a liturgy in Year 2 today. We are thinking about Preparations, particularly how we prepare during Advent for Christmas. We Gathered by quietly bringing our own special pictures of Gold, Frankincense and Myrhh to the focal point. We thought about how this is such a special and important time of year in the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today Year 2 made some beautiful Advent Wreaths. We thought about our school Advent Wreath which we see in Collective Worship on a Monday. Mrs Robson lights a candle each week. We coloured our candles in either pink for Joy, or purple for Love, Peace and Hope. Our Jesus candle was left white, but some [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had an amazing trip to Mr Thompson’s farm, Broxfield, near Alnwick. We started off our trip by exploring our way through his brand new pumpkin patch. It was fascinating to see the seeds inside a pumpkin and to find out how they grow. We then visited the cows in their shed. We learnt that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 6 have been learning the song ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams. The class liked this song from the start of term and are very enthusiastic when performing this together. Alongside this song, we have also been learning about other songs that make us happy or have happiness as their theme. For example, ‘Top of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This half term, Year 4 have been learning the song ‘Mamma Mia’ by Abba. Whilst learning this song, we have been exploring other Abba Songs such as ‘Dancing Queen,’ ‘The Winner Takes It All’ and ‘Waterloo’. We have been discussing similarities and differences each week as we are introduced to a new Abba song. Some [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This half term, Year 1 have been learning the song, ‘Hey You!’. It involves rap verses as well as singing verses. Year 1 learnt this song really quickly and have been very enthusiastic whilst performing this song. This term were have also learnt how to play the glockenspiel. We have learnt where the notes are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today we enjoyed a fabulous story writing workshop. 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! He even published our book!</p>

<p>Year 1 children are delighted with their new outdoor area and have had so much fun playing with all of their new equipment. They have loved exploring the different activities available, including sand, water, chalk, small world, construction and reading. It has created such a happy and positive learning environment.             </p>

<p>We had our first Liturgy in Year 2 today. We are thinking about Beginnings. We have lots of new Beginnings when we are growing up and we thought about them and discussed them. We Gathered by quietly bringing our own special picture of our planet Earth to the Focal Point. We thought about how Christians [&hellip;]</p>

<p>KS2 Choir and Orchestra performed a wonderful celebration of Disney music for friends and family. They were conducted by Miss Hedley and either sang or played ukulele. They finished with joyous sing-a-long encore of ‘Hakuna Matata.’ All musicians performed beautifully. Congratulations to all involved and a big thank you to our wonderful music teacher, Miss [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had a fantastic day at the Shipley Art Gallery. We took park in two workshops creating our own materials. Firstly, we made our own piece of felt using different colours of wool and soapy water. We then made our own mosaic tiles using clay. It was interesting to compare and contrast materials, thinking about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 2 have had lots of fun this week designing, making and evaluating their own felt pouches this week in Design and Technology. We firstly practised running stitches on paper and then on a scrap piece of felt. Secondly we progressed onto sewing two templates together to make our pouch. We then designed a motif [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had a fantastic day at the Discovery Museum today. We took part in two workshops. Firstly, a workshop all about The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead. Fran, our leader at the museum, told us the story and we acted it out with noises and actions. We even took part in a puppet show [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had a wonderful Now Press Play experience today! We ventured into one of the continents we have studied – The Arctic! We had to think about survival and thought about how it was different to our own continent of Europe.</p>

<p>For our DT topic this year, we have been designing and making a chair for baby bear. To make baby bear’s chair we used paper, tape and card. We had to ensure the chair legs were strong and stable and the same length. We also decorated our chairs to make them eye catching. We presented [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had our first Liturgy in Year 2 today. We are thinking about special books. There are thousands and thousands of books in the world but this week we will be thinking about a special collection of 73 books which make the Bible! We Gathered by quietly bringing our own special books to our Focal [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today we role played the Gospel of Matthew 3:13-17, the story of John the Baptist. We realised we had kind of met John before, when we learned The Visitation story before Christmas, and John&#8217;s mum Elizabeth was pregnant at the same time as Mary was with Jesus! Today we talked about Matthew 3:13-17, when John [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We worked in groups today to identify some everyday materials. We had to think about what the materials were made of, were they natural or man made and what are their uses.</p>