School Policies/Useful Documents
An Egg-stravanganza of a week in the Reception Classes
The children have had an 'eggcellent' week of learning linked to Easter. They started the week by looking at the Easter story and how Easter can be celebrated. In Maths, they enjoyed an addition egg hunt using the Numicon. The children have made chocolate Easter nests...
Year 6 Homework (8.4.22)
This week our homework is as follows (8.4.22). Please work through your 10 min GPS, Reading and Maths books. Remember little and often is the best way to complete these - daily if possible. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be...
Easter Egg Winners!
It's a huge well done to all of our Easter Egg Winners this year. We'd also like to say a huge thanks as well to everyone who entered. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can....
KS2 Easter Service at St. Albans!
Well it was time for some Easter celebrations this week with Windy Nook's annual Easter service back up and running at St Albans Church. The whole of KS2 put on an amazing show for parents and it was wonderful to have all the children back together singing! Year 5...
Gateshead Girls Football League- Round 1
This week, the year 5 girl's football team got the chance to eventually attend their first round of this year's league (after it was called off due to bad weather). The girls competed in 5-a-side matches against 4 other schools. The girls played fantastically...
Water Fun in Bluebells
Today, Bluebells explored capacity and volume by estimating then measuring the volume of different containers. Children recapped how to measure liquid using the scale on jugs and cylinders. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be...
Tree Planting at Whitehills
Yesterday, a group of our Year 6 children participated in some tree planting. This is part of the 'Welcome to the Whitehills Community Woodland Creation Project' Living Woods North East is co-ordinating the establishment phase of this project on behalf of Gateshead...
March Walk to School Badges
This month children across the school continued to make active trips to earn their March walk to school badge. As a school, we recorded 4187 active trips and 206 children were awarded their badge. Article 24: You have the right to the best quality...
Space Art in UKS2
Linking to our Space topic, this term UKS2 have been getting creative and completing some pieces of art inspired by Peter Thorpe. Peter Thorpe is an artist that uses his leftover materials from other jobs and creates space paintings that use resources such as paint,...
Easter Egg Competition 2022
We have had some fantastic entries into this years competition. We have loved seeing all the amazing designs. A huge thank you to all the families who have taken part. Winners will be announced later this week. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality...
Non Uniform Day in support for the Ukraine Crisis
As a school community, children and staff want to show support for the crisis in Ukraine. This Friday (8th April) we will be holding a non-uniform day for a donation in support of the UNICEF Ukraine Emergency Appeal. Children and staff can wear non uniform and are...
Creating algorithms
Article 12: you have the right to an opinion and to be listened to. Article 13: You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people. Article 28: You have...
UKS2 Visit Centre for Life
Today, Year 5 and 6 went on a fantastic trip to the Centre for Life in Newcastle. They were focusing on learning about Space and took part in a workshop where they used robots to replace solar panels on the International Space Station, tasted astronaut food and even...
Vincent van Gogh’s 12 Sunflowers
This week we have continued our plant/flower theme and focussed on Vincent van Gogh's Twelve Sunflower's in a Vase. We produced some stunning paintings of sunflowers as well as making booklets and drawings. In maths we played dominoes to improve our subitising skills....
LKS2 are on point
This week, Tulips, Bluebells and Snowdrops have been using the art technique of pointillism, to create a portrait. The children studied the work of various artists from the pointillist movement, including Georges Seurat. It was the art of Seurat that children used to...
Tulips Homework 1.4.22
Tulips homework pages for this week are: Maths CGP book page 61. English CGP book pages 14 and 15. Spelling Spelling test on Friday 8th April. Spelling rule /ie/ sound spelt ei, eigh or e. vein weigh weight eight eighth neighbour they obey reign Common exception words...
Snowdrops’ homework 1.4.22
Hello Snowdrops, This week, I'd like you to do homework in your homework books. The pages are as follows: YEAR 3: Maths - 42 English - 22 & 23 YEAR 4: Maths - 48 & 49 English - 44 & 45 Thank you!
Bluebells Homework – 1.4.22
HOMEWORK 1.4.22 (Due 7.4.22) I would love a bit of a Maths week this week. 1. I have set two tasks on Conquer Maths: https://conquermaths.com/ 2. I have set a Boys v Girls Times Tables Rockstars Battle - children should login and answer as many questions as possible -...
Year 6 Homework (1.4.22)
This week our homework is as follows (1.4.22). Reading Plus – Complete at least two texts Conquer Maths – Complete the tasks on Volume and graphs – please remember to use the videos as well. Maths – CGP Translation – page 69 Grammar – CGP Commas to avoid ambiguity –...
Year 5 Homework (1.4.22)
This week our homework is as follows (1.4.22). Reading Plus – Complete two texts Conquer Maths – complete the tasks on time Spelling practice. Look, cover, write and check activity Purple Mash- Spelling quiz and brackets/commas/dashes for parenthesis task Article...
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