Terrific Tennis in LKS2
This half term in PE, the children in years 3 and 4 have been developing their tennis skills. They have been focussing on basic racket skills by playing different games. The children have also focussed on their positioning inside the court and how to win points. These...
Mother’s Day and much more!
This week we have continued to focus on the book, Titch. We made some beautiful Mother's Day cards and discussed the different heights of the stalks/flowers on the front of the card. During maths we continued to use the balance scales to find heavy and light items...
Titch
This week nursery, our focus has been growing and plants. We read the story, Titch and re-enacted the main parts using props. For maths, we used cubes to measure the heights of all of the plants in our classroom. We discovered that Kelly (one of our plants) was the...
Shrove Tuesday (a week later) and much more!
We have had a super busy week in nursery. On Tuesday, we read the story, Mr Wolf's Pancakes and made our own pancakes. We thoroughly enjoyed adding delicious toppings to our pancakes and eating them during snack time. We learned the song, Mix the Pancake, Stir the...
Space Party!
On Tuesday, for Valentines Day we drew pictures of people who we love or are special to us.We have continued to focus on Space throughout the week. It has been wonderful to observe the children independently drawing and making rocket and planet themed creations as...
Eggciting Science in KS1!
We all know the story of Humpty Dumpty. Today in KS1 the children were given a challenge. In groups they were given a different material to protect an egg when dropped from a one metre height. We talked about the properties of the materials before predicting which...
All things Space!
We have continued to explore our space topic this week. We focussed on the story, Suzy Orbit Astronaut which is a story about saving Earth from a meteoroid storm. We acted out parts of the story both inside and outdoors, making space themed vehicles and structures...
Zoom Zoom Zoom!
We have continued to focus on the story QPootle5 this week. For maths we made rockets using the large construction equipment and discussed which shapes we used. We also acted out some of our story of the week and used tools to pretend we were fixing rocket boosters...
More Winter Activities
We have continued to focus on our Winter topic this week. We made some beautiful paintings of snowflakes which we have displayed in nursery. By reading our Secretes of Winter book , we learned what an evergreen tree is and during our Friday outdoor session we explored...
Welcome New Nursery Friends!
We have had a great first week back in nursery and have been as busy as ever! We have welcomed some new friends who have settled really well. We have continued to take turns at being a Special Helper and work together by communicating with each other to complete tasks...
A Huge Foodbank Thank you!
The school council paid a visit to Gateshead Foodbank this afternoon and delivered the many donations given by our school community. The children had a tour of the foodbank warehouse with Vic, who is one of the volunteers, and learned about how the donations are...
More Christmas Preparations in Nursery
This week we have completed our calendars, made reindeer food to sell at the school fair, practised our Christmas sing-a-long and made a special hat to wear for our sing-a-long. We have incorporated maths and phonics into our Christmas preparations. For example we...