We have been lucky to work with ‘Borderline Books’ who rehome books which are no loner needed and have been donated. Miss Sparks and Mrs Henderson visited Borderline Books and hand-picked over 400 books which we have shared across school to update our reading corners. Year 4 have sorted through them to make sure the books went to the right home! 📚
Year 3, 4 and Language Unit had their Christmas party today and the children looked fabulous for the occasion.
They had a dance and enjoyed party games. The favourite being corners and heads and tails!
Year 4 pupils organised and conducted a very successful litter pick in their community.
Well done everyone!
Although the sun was shinning, the wind was crazy but that didn’t stop our Year 4s taking part in bike-ability today!
They have a full day of learning about bike safety, how to balance on their bike, signal and stop using their brakes correctly.
They practiced riding around obstacles , taking one hand off the handlebars while still riding carefully, the importance of looking over their shoulder for dangers and even took part in a race where the winner was the slowest cyclist!!!
Throughout the session, they all demonstrated our school values of respect, responsibility, engagement and most importantly resilience.
Congratulations Year 4 – happy cycling and remember to ride safely.
We had a visit from Anthea from My Dentist today to support our science topic on Teeth and Digestion. She told us all about teeth and how to look after them and about careers in dentistry. She even let us pretend to be dentists by wearing masks and gloves and examining some model teeth.
Wow, what a fantastic morning we had at French Cafe!
Thank you so much to all the parents, carers and chikldren who attended throughout the morning.
It was amazing to have everyone together and hear so many children and adults ordering their food in French!
To celebrate World Book Day, Year 4 and Reception class enjoyed a reading session together.
The children loved being buddy readers!
The children in year 4 had an amazing day at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. They had the opportunity to explore the gallery and learn about all of the different paintings that were there. We looked particularly at landscape paintings as we are studying Paul Cezanne’s mountains in class.
Whilst there we also took part in a very useful workshop. We learnt all the different techniques for painting with watercolours. We learnt how to blend, blotch and build up colours and then used our new skills to create our own landscape paintings. We will also use these new skills throughout our topic and we cannot wait to create some masterpieces that may someday be on display in a magnificent gallery!
Over the last two days, every child from Reception to Year 6 has taken part in a STEM project.in collaboration with the KAPLA workshop team. They have learned how to work as a team and shown resilience and engagement with the process in order to complete their final build.
We have built ski villages, giraffes, houses, crocodiles, boats and so much more! The wooden bricks needed to be carefully placed to make different shapes that would stand tall. There was no glue, no fixing mechanisms, just pure determination and a methodical, systematic approach.
We are so proud of what we managed to achieve together! A massive thank you to all of those parents and adults that helped our children enjoy an amazing learning experience.
