Miscellaneous

Great fun was had at our school fair.  As well as all the activities some of us had our faces painted with festive designs. Mrs Croft had some amazing helpers from Whickham Comp during the morning…Roberta, Olivia and Neve were fantastic.  During the afternoon Mrs Robson, Miss Routledge and Esthe

In D.T. Year 5 have been looking at how cam mechanisms work. We tested our ideas by making our own. We discovered how different shaped cams create different movements.

Yet again the dinner staff have wowed us with the amazing display for Children in Need 2017! (Article 1-42)

PE in Year 1 so far! (Article 24, 28. 29 and 31). Year 1 have been developing their ball skills, completing a variety of activities in small groups and in pairs. We have also been developing our movement skills and practicing our jumping, running, walking, landing, trotting, etc. To start off PE

Today it was our Harvest Festival and what an amazing show it was! Each year group performed a special Harvest song and year 2 reminded us all what Harvest was. Father Barry came too he has taken our food donations to places that need them most.  Ask your child what song they sang! Article 6 – the

Today, we acted out scenes from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. We worked on our volume and tone of voice, and looked at how to use actions instead of props. Can you guess which scenes we performed?

In Science, we’ve been looking at different forces. We used parachutes to learn about air resistance. We investigated how air resistance changes, depending on the surface area of the parachute you are using. We designed an experiment, built our parachutes and tested them. We then constructed line gr

Over the last 2 weeks, we have designed and made our own hand puppets. We have learnt lots of new skills and showed real tolerance, especially with the stitching!! I think Mrs Smith and I aged 10 years yesterday! I am sure you will agree they look fantastic

Today we have enjoyed our day with Nick the Chef. He has spoken to us about cooking healthy meals, healthy packed lunch choices and showed us how to prepare a meal. We all helped make savoury curry rice, rainbow pasta salad and egg mayonnaise wraps. All of the children have been really good at tryin

Over the last two weeks the children have been looking at and describing the properties of different materials. Today we made our umbrellas from different materials – cloth, sellotape, paper, cling film, tin foil and a plastics coated material. Some children volunteered to be the tester! The staff j