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Reception have spent their day today on a school trip to Hamsterley Forest! We all enjoyed going on the Gruffalo trail to find the Gruffalo and the characters from the story. We made houses out of natural resources for the fox, mouse, snake and the owl. We made stick men for the Gruffalo Child and w

This week we have been learning about the 3 R’s-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. We discussed how we could do the 3 R’s and came up with some great ideas: switch lights off when we don’t need them turn our TVs and tablets off when they aren’t being used reusing things like cardboard boxes, plastic tu

Year 4 have explored and discussed what the word ‘Diversity’ means in the context of families. They talked about what makes up one family can be different to someone else’s.  They used Lego to represent the ‘building blocks’ needed to make any family. Articles: 13, 14, 29  

Today we read the book ‘My Name is not Refugee’ by Katie Milner. We discussed are basic rights to be safe and protected from war. (article 38) We imagined what it must be like to leave a country where it is not safe and to go to another country. We thought of some basic items to pack for the jou

The Unicef annual youth campaign OutRight is back for the school year. Based on the theme of the right to the best possible health, Year 5 have been looking at the theme of global warming and how it impacts on health. In Design Technology, we have also been exploring how to make a burger which is he

This year as a school we decided to support ‘Cash for Kids: Mission Christmas’. This is a charity that aims to provide a gift for every child to wake up to on Christmas morning. We appealed for your support by asking you to bring in a gift to donate to this worthy cause, and we are astounded by

This week Reception have been doing their independent writing based on Christmas. We spoke about a Christmas wish list and things we could ask Santa for as well as writing wishes. We wished for snow, cuddles and kisses, love and to spend time with our families. We brought in envelopes and a stamp wi

This morning Reception enjoyed a trip to Whickham school where we used their floor to ceiling climbing wall! The aim of this trip was to develop our gross motor skills and spacial awareness on the wall. We all had to wear a harness to keep us safe and we learnt a figure of eight knot is used to atta

This week at toddlers we learnt about Pudsey Bear and Children In Need 💛 🐻 we decorated biscuits, wore Pudsey ears and enjoyed colouring in.

On Friday afternoon the Year 5 and 6 tag rugby team went and competed in the County Finals! This team have competed against 57 schools within this tournament and then the top 10 schools at county level. We came an amazing 4th place on Friday! This team are a credit to Front Street School, with comme