NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>Year 2 have had a fabulous time taking part in The Linking Project. We linked up with friends from Belsay Primary School in Northumberland. We enjoyed meeting with our friends by zoom throughout the year and in person at the Laing Art Gallery. The project has been exciting and interesting and has had so many [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To round off units in both Art and the Humanities, Year 4 made our very own Greek amphorae this week. We researched Ancient Greet art including the sculpture Discobulus by Myron and the Siren Vase from the British Museum&#8217;s collection, before designing and making our own versions. Our pots featured various Ancient Greek subjects including [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To round off units in both Art and the Humanities, Year 4 made our very own Greek amphorae this week. We researched Ancient Greet art including the sculpture Discobulus by Myron and the Siren Vase from the British Museum&#8217;s collection, before designing and making our own versions. Our pots featured various Ancient Greek subjects including [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Y4 met architect Imogen today, who is completing her project to redesign Hadrian&#8217;s Square in Byker as a new Roman Forum. As well as learning all about what an architect does, and how to become one, the children also had a chance to design their own stalls for the forum. &nbsp;</p>

<p>The Nursery children had a great time celebrating our new King and Queen. They enjoyed learning about our Royal Family and taking part in lots of &#8216;royal&#8217; activities, including pretending to be the King! They made their own crowns and we had a picnic and played party games. &#8216;God save the King!&#8217;</p>

<p>Year 2 concluded their History Unit about The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead by visiting The Gateshead Heritage Centre. &nbsp; We learnt all about how and where  the fire began. We crossed the River Tyne via the Tyne Bridge and looked at all of the bridges across the Tyne. We crossed onto the Newcastle [&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>Year 4 had an opportunity to take part in a democratic vote &#8211; Ancient Greek style &#8211; this afternoon. The Athenian citizens (who were all male) voted with pebbles to decide whether non-citizens (girls and children) would be allowed to vote. &nbsp; We then all voted (girls and boys) using modern ballot papers on which [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 4 had an opportunity to take part in a democratic vote &#8211; Ancient Greek style &#8211; this afternoon. The Athenian citizens (who were all male) voted with pebbles to decide whether non-citizens (girls and children) would be allowed to vote. &nbsp; We then all voted (girls and boys) using modern ballot papers on which [&hellip;]</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>Year 2 enjoyed a fabulous trip to The Discovery Museum today. In the morning we had an exciting time in The Science Exhibition trying out all of the wonderful experiments. We all enjoyed the lovely lunches that Gillian made for us. In the afternoon we took part in a History workshop about the Great Fire [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reception class loved our focus book Handa&#8217;s Surprise! As part of our learning the children worked in groups to sequence the story, developing their team work and comprehension skills: The children had the opportunity to taste the seven delicious fruits in the story: Using this experience the children were then able to write sentences to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had a fantastic afternoon taking part in another Now Press Play experience. In today’s experience we were a worker in Victorian England. Conditions and pay for workers we so unfair that we decided to go on strike!</p>

<p>To celebrate Chinese New Year this week, we had a very fun maths lesson today playing with Chinese tangrams. They are Chinese jigsaw puzzles and we had to think pragmatically to create new pictures from the pieces.</p>

<p>Y4 enjoyed a fantastic Shipbuilding workshop as part of our Changing Jobs module in Humanities. We learned about some of the jobs that were common on the River Tyne 100 years ago, and tried our hands at being loftsmen, riveters and ship designers. We also learned a little bit about how ships&#8217; engines use the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Nurture Group this half term we are learning about maps. So far we have been looking at different types of maps, including Ordnance Survey maps and atlases. We have been drawing our own maps of the school grounds and hiding treasure for other teams to find. Today we started to learn how to use [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In Nurture Group this half term we are learning about maps. So far we have been looking at different types of maps, including Ordnance Survey maps and atlases. We have been drawing our own maps of the school grounds and hiding treasure for other teams to find. Today we started to learn how to use [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had so much fun yesterday creating our own Stone Age Cave art. We looked at examples from real Stone Age caves and thought about the different art materials Stone Age people would have had to use, they definitely would of made use of anything they had! We used oil pastels to get different colours [&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>We followed instructions and looked at photographs to create our one model of Stone Henge. We discussed the different features of the structure including the Altar Stone to wonder and explore reasons for building such a structure. We wondered how people during this time were able to carry such heavy stones.</p>