NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>We are really excited in Year 2 as we are starting a project with The Royal Opera House! For our first lesson, we were introduced to the world of opera, as well as some of the characters from The Magic Flute. We looked at the song, Papageno&#8217;s Aria and consider how the body can impact [&hellip;]</p>

<p>KS1 have spent this half term learning and rehearsing the Christmas play, ‘The Little Red Robin.’ Every child had a role, either with lines to learn, a dance to perform and songs to sing. Some children played percussion instruments as part of the performance too. Children took part in all aspects of rehearsing and learned [&hellip;]</p>

<p>KS2 Choir and Orchestra have been rehearsing since the end of October to bring some Christmas cheer through music over the festive period. Children in Orchestra have learned to play the glockenspeil, even learning to read standard notation. Choir is bigger than ever this year, with children from Year 3,4, 5 and 6 involved. We [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To further our learning on rocks and fossils, Year 3 visited the Great North Museum. There we saw an amazing selection of rocks and gemstones. This reminded us of our learning of metamorphic rocks and how they are created. We saw dinosaur fossils and thought about how they were created. We even got time to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 6 pupils graduated on Friday after a week long course of activities centered around WWII, The children started the day with a tour of Newcastle University campus before presenting  group talk to their families in the Old Library. The children had studied about WWII heroes Anne Frank, Billy Strachan, Alan Turing and Violette Szabo. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This week in geography we have been drawing maps of the classroom. To do this we used a key with symbols representing the different areas of the classroom. These included: home corner, reading corner, red table, blue table, green table and teacher’s desk. We began by moving large versions of the symbols around on the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had a wonderful visit from the Teddy Bear Hospital this afternoon! The Teddy Bear Hospital is made up of medical students from Newcastle University. We took part in four different activities: healthy eating and exercise, inside my body, sensory play and what to expect at the doctors or hospital. We arranged the internal organs [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What an exciting afternoon we had! We visited East End Library on Shields Road, linked to our work on ‘Luna Loves Library Day,’ by Joseph Coelho. Our lovely librarian read a fantastic picture book to us, ‘Luna Loves Art,’ also by Joseph Coelho and part of the ‘Luna’ series. We then got the opportunity to [&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>Last week was our Autumn Music Week Across school. In all classes, we covered Listening and Appreciation, listening and responding to particular greats and legends of different genres of music. It gave the children the opportunity to listen to and respond to varied music they may not normally listen to.</p>

<p>On Monday we were very lucky to have a visit from Angela who works as an optician. She told us all about how to look after our eyes but also how to keep safe in the sun. We learnt about UVA and UVB rays and looked at a model of the inside of an eye. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 3 had a wonderful time today at Broxfield farm in Northumberland. It was amazing to go back to visit the farm in the summer to see how much it has changed since the Autumn. We started the day by going into the oat fields and even saw the beginning of Mr Thompson’s need batch [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Our KS2 Orchestra had a wonderful performance on Tuesday afternoon where we celebrated music from the 1980s! We have worked so hard on this concert, with all members reading printed sheet music for the first time! Our audience were captivated and sang along!</p>

<p>&nbsp; In our last forest school session for the year, Year 5 Nurture Group brought together many of the skills they have been learning this year: whittling skills, campfire building and campfire lighting. The children are now so skilled that they needed minimal input from Mrs. Villalobos and they independently built a campfire, correctly layering [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Yesterday our Year 3 class joined lots of other Year 3 classes from across Newcastle to gather at St Cuthbert&#8217;s High School to take part in a fantastic Skipping Festival!The children had a fabulous time, learning new skipping techniques and gaining confidence.</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We mixed baking soda, vinegar and red food colouring to create an active erupting volcano in our classroom today! Although real volcanoes do not contain any of these ingredients, it created a similar effect as pressure built and an eruption occurred!</p>

<p>On Wednesday Reception had a fantastic trip to White House Farm to learn about changes in spring and animals. The children loved the hands on experience of feeding the farm animals: Reception loved the tractor ride: There was even time some play: Well done Reception! &nbsp;</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This week we started our maths topic on Fractions. We started off our learning by using lots of concrete resources to explore how fractions work. We thought about naming fractions, the language of fractions and thinking about fractions of amounts and equivalent fractions.  &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>