NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>We have attached a flyer from Newcastle Libraries about all of the various activities and workshops that are happening across the city over the next few months. Newcastle Libraries Newsletter</p>

<p>To celebrate finishing our class reader &#8216;The Butterfly Lion&#8217; by Michael Morpurgo, Year 4 made a butterfly lion of our own today. In the novel, the lion represents the friendship between Bertie, a boy who lives in Timbavati, South Africa, and a white lion cub he rescues twice, once from the veldt and once from [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over the last week, the children have noticed some new signs around the KS1 and KS2 yards. We have new maps, maths displays and poems all around school. We hope they will inspire our pupils to become new geographers, scientists and poets!</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! She even published our book!</p>

<p>Year have been studying the 1st half of Macbeth this week. At the end of Wednesday&#8217;s lesson we voted on the question ‘which character is more evil – Macbeth or Lady Macbeth?’  The first vote was 18 for Macbeth and 12 for Lady Macbeth. The following day we then split into groups came up with [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today we really got to know Mr Fox! We worked as a team to think of nouns, adjectives and similes to describe Mr Fox’s appearance, personality, family and interests. This will help us when planning a character description of him on Friday.</p>

<p>Today we really got to know Mr Fox! We worked as a team to think of nouns, adjectives and similes to describe Mr Fox’s appearance, personality, family and interests. This will help us when planning a character description of him on Friday.</p>

<p>Reception parents were invited to join us for a reading and writing workshop to share how we teach phonics using our school&#8217;s scheme Little Wandle. The children enjoyed sharing all their super phonics skills such as recognising sounds, blending sounds to read words and segmenting to write simple words. Well done everyone!</p>

<p>Reception parents were invited to join us for a reading and writing workshop to share how we teach phonics using our school&#8217;s scheme Little Wandle. The children enjoyed sharing all their super phonics skills such as recognising sounds, blending sounds to read words and segmenting to write simple words. Well done everyone!</p>

<p>Reception class loved learning about the season of autumn. They looked closely at the changes the environment and investigated autumn vegetables such as pumpkins. Everyone enjoyed our class trip to Jesmond Dene to hunt for signs of autumn and when we returned to school the children even used their super writing skills to label some [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reception class loved learning about the season of autumn. They looked closely at the changes the environment and investigated autumn vegetables such as pumpkins. Everyone enjoyed our class trip to Jesmond Dene to hunt for signs of autumn and when we returned to school the children even used their super writing skills to label some [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reception enjoyed learning about Bonfire night. They used art resources to create a bonfire whilst talking about how to keep safe, created their own firework pictures by copying patterns of fireworks in chalk on to black paper and they even showed off their blending skills by writing words such as &#8216;pop&#8217; to describe the sounds [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reception enjoyed learning about Bonfire night. They used art resources to create a bonfire whilst talking about how to keep safe, created their own firework pictures by copying patterns of fireworks in chalk on to black paper and they even showed off their blending skills by writing words such as &#8216;pop&#8217; to describe the sounds [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some of our children from Years 3, 4 and 5 visited Seven Stories today where they met Lauren Child, the author of the Charlie and Lola books. She is the inspiration for this year&#8217;s Fenwick&#8217;s Christmas window! The children met Lauren and listened to her read an extract of Clarice Bean: Think Like an Elf. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Some of our children from Years 3, 4 and 5 visited Seven Stories today where they met Lauren Child, the author of the Charlie and Lola books. She is the inspiration for this year&#8217;s Fenwick&#8217;s Christmas window! The children met Lauren and listened to her read an extract of Clarice Bean: Think Like an Elf. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This term the Nursery children took part in their first educational visit and were very well behaved! We went to Jesmond Dene to look for signs of Autumn. We collected leaves and visited the animals in Pet&#8217;s Corner before sitting down for a drink and snack!  On our return, we listened to the story &#8216;Leaf [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Yesterday Year 2 were asked to bring their favourite teddy to school. We enjoyed doing lots of activities with our teddy bears. We read our books to them; We did our LEXIA work with them; We did our PE lesson with them, they enjoyed flying on the parachute! In the afternoon we had a visit [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had a wonderful morning exploring the natural world on our door step! We went on a nature trail around our yard and field. We worked in groups of three to search for signs of hedgehogs. We had a go at building our own hedgehog homes and looked for slime trails of slugs which are [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 2 have enjoyed a fabulous day today linking lots of areas of the curriculum together around the theme of Autumn. We started the day going for a nature walk around our school grounds and looking for signs of Autumn. We then came back to class and thought of lots of adjectives to describe Autumn. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We have really enjoyed learning all about the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in Year 3. We have took part in lots of activities to learn about this special event. We looked at the Queen’s reign so far since 1952 and we learnt about the immediate Royal Family. We also zoomed in on the Queen’s reign during [&hellip;]</p>