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Year 3’s Liturgical Dance Workshop with More Than Dance
<p>On Wednesday, Year 3 had a fabulous workshop with local Liturgical Dance Company, More than Dance. We learnt a beautiful Liturgical Dance to The Risen Christ (Doxology) by Margaret Becker, Kristyn Getty and Joanne Hogg. This piece combined flowing dance sequences and British Sign Language. It was so different and interesting to learn a new […]</p>
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Year 3’s Liturgical Dance Workshop with More Than Dance
<p>On Wednesday, Year 3 had a fabulous workshop with local Liturgical Dance Company, More than Dance. We learnt a beautiful Liturgical Dance to The Risen Christ (Doxology) by Margaret Becker, Kristyn Getty and Joanne Hogg. This piece combined flowing dance sequences and British Sign Language. It was so different and interesting to learn a new […]</p>
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Liturgical Dance
<p>As part of our preparations for Easter in Lent Years 2,3 and 4 all took part in a Liturgical dance workshop. Liturgical dance is a form of prayer and worship through bodily movement. Like most dance styles, music accompanies liturgical dance. Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Click on the links below to see […]</p>
Mar 17, 20221 min read
Liturgical Dance
<p>As part of our preparations for Easter in Lent Years 2,3 and 4 all took part in a Liturgical dance workshop. Liturgical dance is a form of prayer and worship through bodily movement. Like most dance styles, music accompanies liturgical dance. Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Click on the links below to see […]</p>
Mar 17, 20221 min read
Year 1 design and make Fruit Kebabs.
<p>Year 1 have been designing and making their own fruit kebab. After they cut up their chosen fruit and made their kebab, they were able to enjoy their work by eating them. Some children said cutting the kiwi was hard because it was very slippery! All children enjoyed making them though.</p>
Mar 17, 20221 min read
Year 1 design and make Fruit Kebabs.
<p>Year 1 have been designing and making their own fruit kebab. After they cut up their chosen fruit and made their kebab, they were able to enjoy their work by eating them. Some children said cutting the kiwi was hard because it was very slippery! All children enjoyed making them though.</p>
Mar 17, 20221 min read
Year of The Eucharist
<p>The Year of the Eucharist At St Lawrence’s School in Byker we have been enjoying celebrating The Year of The Eucharist. We have done a variety of things in school to develop children’s knowledge of the Eucharist and what it means to us. The whole school took part in a Eucharistic Art […]</p>
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Year of The Eucharist
<p>The Year of the Eucharist At St Lawrence’s School in Byker we have been enjoying celebrating The Year of The Eucharist. We have done a variety of things in school to develop children’s knowledge of the Eucharist and what it means to us. The whole school took part in a Eucharistic Art […]</p>
Mar 15, 20221 min read
George Stephenson – the father of the railway!
<p>We are really enjoying our Victorians topic in Humanities! Today we learnt all about a significant Victorian the inventor and engineer, George Stephenson. He is often called the ‘father of the railway,’ and was born locally in Northumberland. We opened up his suitcase and started to think about who he was and why he is […]</p>
Mar 15, 20221 min read
George Stephenson – the father of the railway!
<p>We are really enjoying our Victorians topic in Humanities! Today we learnt all about a significant Victorian the inventor and engineer, George Stephenson. He is often called the ‘father of the railway,’ and was born locally in Northumberland. We opened up his suitcase and started to think about who he was and why he is […]</p>
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Spring
<p>Reception have started to learn about the changes in Spring. This week we have been investigating plants and flowers. The children made observations, still-life paintings and even started to label some of their pictures in their play! The children loved listening to the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carl and used dance to represent […]</p>
Mar 11, 20221 min read
Spring
<p>Reception have started to learn about the changes in Spring. This week we have been investigating plants and flowers. The children made observations, still-life paintings and even started to label some of their pictures in their play! The children loved listening to the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carl and used dance to represent […]</p>
Mar 11, 20221 min read
Reception – St Lawrence’s Church Visit
<p>Reception enjoyed their first visit to St Lawrence’s Church! Father Shaun welcomed us to the Church and the children loved learning about the religious objects and Mass. Reception had the opportunity to hold the objects and the visit allowed the children to embed their learning through a real-life experience. Back in class some of the […]</p>
Mar 10, 20221 min read
Reception – St Lawrence’s Church Visit
<p>Reception enjoyed their first visit to St Lawrence’s Church! Father Shaun welcomed us to the Church and the children loved learning about the religious objects and Mass. Reception had the opportunity to hold the objects and the visit allowed the children to embed their learning through a real-life experience. Back in class some of the […]</p>
Mar 10, 20221 min read
Technology Tom in Year 2
<p>Technology Tom visited Year 2 today as part of our work on Materials in Science. We looked at lots of different types of materials and talked about their origins and their uses. We tested out the strength of paper; We made a paper tower and then removed some of the towers. IMG_0870 IMG_0893 IMG_0889 We […]</p>
Mar 10, 20221 min read
Technology Tom in Year 2
<p>Technology Tom visited Year 2 today as part of our work on Materials in Science. We looked at lots of different types of materials and talked about their origins and their uses. We tested out the strength of paper; We made a paper tower and then removed some of the towers. IMG_0870 IMG_0893 IMG_0889 We […]</p>
Mar 10, 20221 min read
A Visit from Technology Tom – Magnets!
<p>Today we got involved in an exciting science workshop with Technology Tom! We explored magnetism to fit in with our current topic. Tom demonstrated a few different experiments to us that showed just how powerful magnets are! These demonstrations included; a magnet fishing game, a compass demonstration and a demonstration which showed how magnets attract […]</p>
Mar 7, 20221 min read
A Visit from Technology Tom – Magnets!
<p>Today we got involved in an exciting science workshop with Technology Tom! We explored magnetism to fit in with our current topic. Tom demonstrated a few different experiments to us that showed just how powerful magnets are! These demonstrations included; a magnet fishing game, a compass demonstration and a demonstration which showed how magnets attract […]</p>
Mar 7, 20221 min read
World Book Day in EYFS
<p>This week Nursery and Reception Class celebrated World Book Day by focusing on the story ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’ by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler. The Nursery children dressed up in blue like the Smoo characters in the story and the Reception children dressed in red like the Smeds. We took part in […]</p>
Mar 4, 20221 min read
World Book Day in EYFS
<p>This week Nursery and Reception Class celebrated World Book Day by focusing on the story ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’ by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler. The Nursery children dressed up in blue like the Smoo characters in the story and the Reception children dressed in red like the Smeds. We took part in […]</p>
Mar 4, 20221 min read
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