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Autumn Cooking and Activities in Nursery
This week, the children have been exploring autumn, harvest and seasonal change through a range of pumpkin and apple experiences. As part of our Autumn Cooking Week, the children made pumpkin soup during group time and apple crumble using apples picked from one of our...
Celebrating Creativity at Crochet Club
This half term, we have enjoyed a very successful Crochet Club with a group of enthusiastic Year 5 and Year 6 pupils. Some children joined the club with a little experience of crocheting, while others were complete beginners. We started by learning the chain stitch,...
You Be You: Celebrating What Makes Us Special in Nursery
Continuing our diversity theme, we enjoyed reading You Be You by Linda Kranz and talking about how all of the fish in the story are different and unique, just like we are. The children made links between the colourful fish in the book and themselves, discussing their...
Keeping the Beat and Finding the Music!
Our KS1 children have been busy developing their musical skills through activities focused on pulse, rhythm, pitch, listening and composing. The children showed a steady beat, clapped back rhythm patterns and practised singing using the notes s and m. They also...
A Week of Home, Nature and Music in Nursery
This week, the children enjoyed talking about who lives in their home and drawing the special people they live with. They then added their drawings to a house template, creating lovely representations of their families and home life. An adult worked with each child to...
Our Cauliflower Cards Are Coming Home!
LKS2 children have been busy getting creative and making their very own Cauliflower Cards! They have enjoyed exploring different crafting techniques, collage, cutting, sticking, designing and creating their own unique artwork. As well as being lots of fun, these...
Our Favourite Places to Play in Nursery
As part of our continuing Overselves topic, the children helped to create a wonderful Where Do You Like to Play? display. Each child chose a favourite place to play, had their photograph taken there and then talked about their picture. Children added marks or writing...
Lower KS2: Exploring the Sounds of the North East
This term, Lower KS2 are exploring the rich musical heritage of the North East through a collection of traditional Geordie folk songs. This week, the children learned the much-loved North East song ‘Weel May the Keel Row’. They enjoyed learning the melody, singing...
This Is Me!
We have continued settling into our new routine in nursery and the children are becoming increasingly confident and independent each day. This week, everyone drew a picture of themselves to be displayed on our "This Is Me" wall. The children used a photograph of...
Sunflowers, Sandcastles and Summer Fun in Nursery
During our final week of the academic year, we have had a wonderful time completing the last sessions of our summer topic. The children were very excited to reflect on all the fun learning experiences they have enjoyed and to take part in some fantastic summer-themed...
Transition and New Experiences for our Nursery Children
We have had another busy and exciting week in nursery. Our children who will be moving to Reception in September had a lovely time visiting their future classes during transition days on Tuesday and Wednesday, where they enjoyed getting to know Mrs Ramanandi, Mrs...
Super Symmetry: Butterfly Magic!
Our Reception children have been full of excitement as they observed their caterpillars form a chrysalis, sparking lots of curiosity and discussion about how living things grow and change. They have been carefully checking on them each day, wondering what might be...