Reception

Today we celebrated World Book Day. In Early Years our theme was ‘dots’, in reference to the story ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds, we all loved coming in wearing spots and dots- even the teachers and Mrs Gladstone joined in too! We enjoyed reading ‘The Dot’, our favourite line was: “just

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In Reception we have been learning about Lunar New Year. We read a story called ‘The Great Race’ and learnt about why different animals are celebrated each new year. We then developed our ordinality skills by placing the animals in the order that they finished the race. We practised writing the

Reception visited the climbing wall at Whickham Comp.  We travelled up in the school minibus, put our harnesses on and then listened to the instructor about how to keep safe on the wall. We were very brave and some of even reached the top!                                   Articles

The Art Ambassadors came to Early Years to help teach some of the children about colour mixing.

This week, the children at Front Street Primary School have been celebrating Safer Internet Day which was held on Tuesday. This year’s theme was ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online.’  The children took part in a whole school assembly, where

On Monday Reception visited Hamsterley Forest. We travelled by coach and enjoyed playing games of eye-spy on the journey- we saw lots of sheep! When we arrived at Hamsterley, we met our Forest rangers and walked to the outdoor classroom for lunch. After eating our lunch we split into two groups and

We enjoyed taking part in our first sports skills event at Gateshead Stadium! We represented our school by working as a team and completing various sport stations. We really liked dribbling the football and running hurdle races! Article 28, 31.

On Thursday we were lucky enough to receive a visit from a man called Kevin who works in the Laing and Shipley Art Galleries. We talked about our favourite colours then searched and pointed them out in our classroom. He then read the colour monster to us and talked about feelings, we even had a go a

To end our week on ‘The Gruffalo’ we made some Gruffalo crumble. We chopped up the apples and rubbed the butter, sugar and flour together to make the crumble. We hope you all enjoyed eating it! Article 24, 28