Year 3

Children from year 3 and year 4 visited Gateshead Stadium today to take part in Gateshead SSP Top Sports. They got to try out many different sports such as curling, boccia and goal ball, and had a whole lot of fun!

Saltwell Park is one of six Fields of Remembrance around the country. Our RE Ambassadors visited the park to meet a representative of the Royal British Legion. He explained the history of Remembrance Sunday and about what the poppies represent. Our children laid crosses with their own messages on in

During half term, ten of our budding gardeners helped the volunteer group ‘Planting up Whickham’ plant winter flowers around St Mary’s Green and the shopping area. The organisers were super impressed with the children’s efforts, manners, attitudes and willingness to help. Well done everyone!

The children had a fantastic time at the Friends of Front Street Spooky disco on Tuesday. They all looked amazing in their fabulous costumes. Big thanks to FOFS for organising and supporting the disco. Also huge thanks to the staff who supported and helped out on the night. Article 31, 12, 15

As part of this term’s Year 3 Science unit about forces, the children were given the task of exploring gravity. They completed two investigations: 1) When a water bomb is dropped from different heights, what happens to the size of the splat? 2) When a basketball is dropped from different heights,

This term is history, Year 3 are learning all about the Victorian Era. This week, the children were finding out what happened during Queen Victoria’s reign. They completed an ‘Each One, Teach one’ activity to teach their friends about Victorian Britain.

This week, the Year 3 children had a group of exciting visitors from Whickham School! The Whickham School students visited us to teach us a French lesson all about animals and a German lesson all about fruit! We had a lot of fun learning some new words and playing some games. Thank you!

This afternoon 12 children represented Front Street in this year’s Gateshead SSP Cross Country event. Each race saw 150 children take part! All of our children finished in the top half of their races – a brilliant achievement. Congratulations to IG who finished 6th in the 5/6 girls race, HH who fi

Ks2 really enjoyed their Gateshead Music Workshop where they learnt all about Tyneside this morning.

Year 3 have thoroughly enjoyed their first DT lesson tasting different dips using a tortilla chip. Lots of children tried a dip for the first time and were surprised at how tasty they were!