NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>Over the last few weeks, we have refreshed and updated our school library. It meant that we didn&#8217;t have space on our shelves for all of our books. So, we decided to share them with the children! Every child in school has received at least one book to take home, read and keep forever. We [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Today we lead and presented Mass in church today. It is our second time and we all really enjoyed the experience. We sang our hymns, ‘Abba Father,’ and ‘Give Me Joy In My Heart,’ beautifully. Every child played an active role, either by taking on a reading, bringing forward the Offertory or a revenant part [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 6 had a fantastic time composing and performing their own jazz compositions using ipads.  Mr Olatunji helped them choose and select various programs to achieve a mix of harmony and rhythm that this genre of music needs. IMG_0940 We began the lesson by looking at the history of jazz, with African Americans in New [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had fun in science today looking at rocks. We looked at: charcoal, chalk, agate, quartz, lava and slate. We thought about their properties and which rock family they belong to. We had a feel of each rock and thought about if it was hard or soft, thinking about if we could snap the rock [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The children enjoyed making poppies to celebrate Remembrance Day. Every class used a different medium and technique to create their poppies, which were all brought together to make a whole school art display in the school entrance.  Well done everybody, what a super effort!</p>

<p>The children enjoyed making poppies to celebrate Remembrance Day. Every class used a different medium and technique to create their poppies, which were all brought together to make a whole school art display in the school entrance.  Well done everybody, what a super effort!</p>

<p>The children enjoyed making poppies to celebrate Remembrance Day. Every class used a different medium and technique to create their poppies, which were all brought together to make a whole school art display in the school entrance.  Well done everybody, what a super effort!</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>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 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 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>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>