Miscellaneous

Everyone has been learning about Sikhism, so we invited Cloud Singh from the Gurdwara in Newcastle to visit our school. He led assembly for Key Stage 2, then spent time with Years 3, 4 and 5. We had lots of questions for him, and everyone agreed we learned a lot! Cloud really helped us understand Si

We learned about Guru Har Gobind in RE. Inspired by the story of how he used his cloak to help people, we created our own designs for a new cloak for him. We made stampers from unwanted rubbish. It was lots of fun.

We spent another exciting day at Nissan, learning about technology and engineering. We tried out some of the skills needed to build a car, and met some very clever robots.

In music, we’ve been learning about how to accompany music and singing with percussion. We’ve improvised rhythms and developed and performed our ideas in groups.

Our RE ambassadors were in charge of today’s assembly. They had researched the Hindu festival of Holi, and told us all about it. They told us the story of Prahlad and Holika, and even created the background art to use throughout. We learned a lot!

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In Science, we learned about how the Earth moves in relation to the Sun throughout the day. We made predictions about when our shadows would be longest, and how long they might be. Then we measured our shadows throughout the day, and recorded the results in a table and line graph. We compared the re

We had a fun afternoon with visitors from Newcastle University. They took us on a virtual tour round the campus, and we found out about the different subjects you can study at university. We tried different fun activities relating to different university departments.

5H are a creative bunch! Their World Book Day costumes were fantastic, and they’ve been full of enthusiasm for their chosen books.

Our dinner staff have wowed us again with a special valentines menu! All of the children loved their dinner!!