Y3/4 Futsal Winners
A group of our Year 3/4 children were chosen to attend Heworth Grange school, to take part in a futsal competition. Our teams played amazingly well, scoring goals for fun scoring goals for fun all afternoon, one of our teams managed to make it all the way to the...
Art around the world!
In LKS2, this term, we have been looking at art for our topic and in particular, focussing on the skills of a range of artists from all over the world. We began our topic by using a map to find four figure grid reference for the places that artists such as Picasso,...
Year 1 investigate capacity
This week Year 1 have been learning about capacity. We discussed the difference between capacity and volume: Capacity – the amount that a container can hold. Volume – the measure of space taken up by the object itself. The children enjoyed a practical lesson allowing...
Studying the Stone Age
This term in history UKS2 having been studying the Stone age and where it fits on a timeline in history. During these lessons they researched and planned a report on Skara Brae. They also learned about farming from the Stone Age through to the 1900s and visited the...
Vector Drawings in Computing
This half term in UKS2, we have been looking at vector drawings. The children have learnt what a vector drawing is and used google draw to manipulate and create their own. They have learned to use tools to change the layout, direction and size of shapes to create a...
Hockey in UKS2
This term in PE, we have been looking at hockey in UKS2. Children recapped their learning from LKS2 and began to develop their control of the ball, passing and defending. We looked at the rules of hockey and thought more tactically about how to work as a team. The...
Maths in UKS2
This term UKS2 have covered a variety of different objectives in maths from converting between units of measure, understanding properties of shape, understanding position and direction, understanding perimeter, area and volume and interpreting statistics. Year 6 are...
Me Presento – UKS2 Spanish
This half term, children in Upper Key Stage 2 have learned how to talk about themselves in Spanish. They have practiced conversational Spanish and spoken about where they live, their age and their name. Children have had lots of opportunities to work on the speaking...
Key Stage One Spelling Workshops
Least week, Robins, Owls, Nightingales and Bees invited parents and carers into school to take part in a spelling workshop. This gave parents and carers an overview of how we teach spelling in school and some useful hints to make practising spellings at home more...
Measuring in Year 1
This week in Maths the children have been looking at measure using and non standard measurements using cubes and standard measurement using a ruler for centimetres. The children then discussed object's which were the longest, shortest and calculated the difference....
Another Fantastic Year at the Dance Festival!
On Tuesday, a group of children form year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to attend the Gateshead schools Dance Festival. The children had put weeks of hard work into after school practices to learn their routine. The theme for the event was 'Equality' and we chose to...
Who will help us make the bread?
Reception made bread buns after reading the story of The Little Red Hen. They used a recipe, measured the ingredients and helped make the dough. Once the dough had proved, the children kneaded individual portions and prepared it to make bread buns. Once cooked, the...