Year 4

This morning, a group of our children attended the Whickham Parade. Year Six children laid our school wreath and words were read out from children from Year Five & Six. Well done to all of the Front Street children who represented their uniformed organisations too! We shall remember them. #teamf

The school council were  pleased to host a visit from our local MP for Blaydon, Liz Twist. Liz received a guided tour of the school from our councillors from year 5 & 6. She was very impressed with the confidence of the children and how proud they all were of our school. The rest of the school

This afternoon a group of children attended the Gateshead SSP Sports Ability event at Gateshead Stadium. They took part in a round robin of activities practising different skills.

Our RE ambassadors represented Front Street this week, on a visit to Saltwell Park. They met a member of the Royal British Legion, who shared the story of how poppies came to be used for Remembrance Day. They talked about what different coloured poppies represent, and he explained what the different

What better way to end our week with some time for reading our favourite books. articles: 28, 29, 31

In our DT lesson we looked at how far our fruit and vegetables have travelled. We learnt the word ‘imported’ and ‘air miles’. We are going to consider the air miles when we design our sandwiches. articles: 31

Today, our Mental Health Ambassadors led our class assemblies. They talked about the theme for World Mental Mental Day which was, ‘ the universal right for good mental health’. Then they shared some ‘top tips’ of how to show kindness to others – a great way to help everyone’s mental health

Our Reading Ambassadors have had first ‘dibs’ of some brand new books.

Our PE focus this half term has been tag rugby – a sport the children were unfamiliar to! Over the past five weeks we have learnt the basic rules of tag rugby, how to wear our tag belts and how we throw the rugby ball. This week we put our skills into a tag rugby game! The children are looking forwa

Having introduced our artist for this half term, Year 4 worked in pairs to describe a picture painted by Michelangelo whilst their partner had to attempt to draw it without looking! This required precise vocabulary and the excellent listening skills to ensure as accurate a representation as possible