Robins visit Washington Wetlands
Today Robins climbed on a coach and travelled to Washington Wetlands for a day out. As it was the first full day visit out of school, they were very excited! Our morning was spent pond dipping and learning about the creatures at the centre. The children were able to...
Owls take a visit to Washington Wetlands
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Nightingales go to Washington Wetlands
Today Nightingales climbed on a coach and travelled to Washington Wetlands for a day out. As it was the first full day visit out of school they were very excited! We had a tour around the site with June who told the children lots of information about the wetland birds...
I’m Stick Man that’s me!
This week, we have focussed on the story of Stick Man. Some of us produced some fabulous Stick Man collages, which we will finish next week. We discussed the fact that the sticks that we used to create our stick men used to be part of a tree. We created Stick Man...
Y5 Trip to Gibside
Today year 5 went on a health and wellbeing trip to Gibside. The trip focused on ways to manage and improve our health and wellbeing. The children took part in 4 different workshops- meditation, sound it out, meet a tree and setting goals. Each workshop looked at a...
Celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee
Friday 27th May will see the whole school celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee. Children can come to school dressed in red, white and blue. A traditional Punch and Judy show has been arranged, singing by the school choir and sign squad, a royal parade, a picnic...
Not a Stick Continued…
Following on from last week, and our focus story, Not a Stick, we have used our imaginations again to complete some more pictures using a stick to represent an object. We thought of some fantastic ideas which included using a stick for a nose, a broomstick,a sword,...
Investigating fruit and vegetables
Over the last two weeks, Reception have been focusing on the stories 'Oliver's Vegetables' and 'Oliver's Fruit Salad' by Vivian French. The children have explored where fruit and vegetables come from and why we need to eat fruit and vegetables as part of a healthy...
On the hunt!
The children in KS1 have been learning about animal habitats this half term and as part of this, we went on a minibeast hunt around the school grounds. We used a checklist and recorded the minibeasts that we saw. We also looked at the location of the minibeasts. Was...
Green Fingers! Our first week of Gardening club
Monday night was our first week of Gardening club and the KS1 children had so much fun! We worked together to prepare the soil, before planting and watering a variety of plants around the Chicken Coop - a memorial dedicated to Mrs Greaves. We would also like to thanks...
Not a Stick!
This week and next week our focus story is, Not a Stick. This week we have used our imaginations to pretend that a stick is is not a stick and that it is an object, which is what happens in the story. Some of us created a picture based around this idea and attached a...
Exploring our new ipads
This week, Reception were given new iPads! We were so excited to use them and capture what happens in our outdoor area. We practised taking photographs of each other, selfies and videos. Next week, the children are going to learn how to print off the photographs from...