Year 1

Today we visited Elliot’s Fruit Shop in Whickham to buy the fruit for our healthy fruit salad. In DT we have been busy learning about different fruit and vegetables and which countries they are grown in – today we even found some blueberries from Tanzania! The children have planned which fruits th

This afternoon we have enjoyed learning about The Great Fire of Gateshead. We are full of facts and information about this event and we cannot wait to tell you about it. Ask your child for a fact about this moment in history.

Today we had a special visit from ‘That History Bloke’ and he was great!!! We got to handle and explore lots of objects from the past, most of them were over 100 hundred years old and one was even 300 years old!! We learned all about different parts of the quayside which linked in with our geogr

Well done to the children who have been awarded certificates this week.  1M Ronnie – rust Michael – rust Abbie – iron Amelia – iron, tin and copper  Josh – iron Alessio – tin and copper 1S Arthur – tin and copper Freddie D – tin and copper Idrees – iron Sofia – rust Oscar – iron Riley – iron Sienn

Today year 1 visited Spoors Methodist Church in Whickham. We learnt all about the role of Reverend Janet Capstick. She does lots of very special jobs. We loved hearing about the different parts of a baptism and even had a pretend service. We had a baby Jake who was very well behaved! We even got to

    Well done to the children who have been awarded a certificate this week – Rust Lilly – 1M Josh – 1M Oliver – 1S Iron Ella – 1M Ava – 1M Matteo – 1M Cole – 1M Caiden – 1S Arthur – 1S Lily – 1S Tin Olive – 1M Thea – 1M William – 1S Copper Oliver – 1M Thea – 1M William – 1S   Also th

Well my hand is aching from writing out all the certificates – I am not moaning I love how engaged the children are with the app.   Awards this week for –  1M Olive – iron Jessica – rust Allesio – iron Freddie F – iron Teddie – iron Ella – rust Leia – rust Lucas – rust Halina – rust Otis – rus

Year one had fun exploring their new sand and water equipment this afternoon. Article 31

This year our whole school experiment is Which is the best material to help water walk? Josh wowed us with his scientific knowledge and prompted a great discussion all about water ‘walking’ and how good some materials are at ‘soaking up’…we can’t wait to look at our investigation tomorro

The children are really enjoying learning how to work with their partner in RWI, how to use a ditty stick, respond to signals, reading our books together… Article 28,29