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Beamish visit

Beamish visit

As part of our climate-change project with Beamish Museum, Year 4 welcomed Helen into school to talk about the industrial history of Gateshead, and about carbon capture and offset in the 21st Century. The children learned all about how our local area became a thriving...

Exploring Remembrance Day and Guy Fawkes Night in Nursery

Exploring Remembrance Day and Guy Fawkes Night in Nursery

This week in nursery, we have been learning about Remembrance Day and exploring the significance of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance. The children took part in a variety of creative and sensory activities, including drawing poppies with pencils and crayons, which...

Bluebells Homework 7.11.25

Bluebells Homework 7.11.25

Bluebells homework this week is as follows: FOR CHILDREN WITH YEAR 3 CGP BOOKS: English – Pg 22 & 22 - Conjunctions with subordinate clauses Maths -  Pg 10 & 11 - Ordering and comparing numbers FOR CHILDREN WITH YEAR 2 CGP BOOKS: English – Pg 4 - Verbs Maths...

Year 5/6 Homework 7.11.25

Year 5/6 Homework 7.11.25

This week, homework will be in CGP Books. Year 5 Y5 Oaks – Maths- p.34 and 35 - Adding and subtracting fractions Y5 Oaks – English- p62 and 63 - Punctuating Speech 1x arithmetic paper (optional) on https://mathsbot.com/primary/year5 Reading- 2 x reading plus texts...

Year 5 Visit Safetyworks!

Year 5 Visit Safetyworks!

On Thursday this week, Year 5 visited Safetyworks! We learned all about how to keep ourselves safe. We completed sessions where we learnt about online safety, water safety, rail safety, fire safety and anti-social behaviour. We all really enjoyed the opportunity to...

Elms Homework 7.11.25

Elms Homework 7.11.25

Elms homework this week is as follows: CGP Books English – p62 & 63 Maths – p34 & 35 Reading Plus – 5 texts to be completed by Thursday. Time is given in class and children are usually able to complete 3-4 in class; the remainder are to be completed at home....

Owls explore tens and ones

Owls explore tens and ones

Owls class had a great week exploring numbers to 20. They started by looking at 'ten and a bit' making our numbers using tens frames before moving on to tens and ones. We have made the numbers 11-19 and know they all have 1 ten and some ones. 20 almost caught us out...

KS1 make friends with some creepy crawlies

KS1 make friends with some creepy crawlies

This term the children in KS1 have been learning about different animals and their habitats. As part of this, today we had some very special visitors. Guy from Bugsnstuff came into school to talk to us about a range of different minibeasts or as we are now calling...

From Our School to Our Community: Harvest Donations Delivered

From Our School to Our Community: Harvest Donations Delivered

We are delighted to share that our Harvest Festival collection was a huge success! Thanks to the incredible generosity of our families, we were able to donate a fantastic amount of food to the Gateshead Food Bank. Some of our School Council members proudly helped pack...

Spooktacular Success at the PTFA Halloween Disco!

Spooktacular Success at the PTFA Halloween Disco!

What a frightfully fun evening we had at the PTFA Halloween Disco! From dancing skeletons to glittering witches, our hall was transformed into a cauldron of colour, laughter, and spooky celebration. The children looked amazing in their costumes and had a fantastic...