Latest news is now shared via our Head Teacher blog which is published in the Parents section of the website. Please also visit our Twitter feed for a window into our curriculum offer and to see the purposeful and memorable learning experiences in each year group. Our Twitter feed can be accessed on the Home page of our website or by clicking on the Twitter icon in the top left corner of this page.

Please find below an archive of the news stories that we published before we started to use Twitter.

• Nursery Trip to Whitehouse Farm

  Fri 14 Jun 2019
  Nursery children have been learning about the topic of 'Animals' throughout the Summer Term.  In order to bring their learning to life, they visited Whitehouse Farm to meet all different types of animals.  They were able to hold and touch reptiles, soft animals, small animals and big animals.  As part of PHSE, they learned how to care for animals and how to stay safe when you are near an animal.  They also learned about hygiene and how important it is to wash your hands whenever you have been touching an animal. 

  

• Wordless Books Week

  Fri 07 Jun 2019

  From Nursery to Year 6, all classes have been celebrating 'Wonderful Wordless Books' this week. Each year group chose a different picture book to focus on and used it to inform the teaching for the week. Wordless books have so many benefits to children and can really support their reading skills and require children to engage with images on a deeper level along with firing up their imaginations! The children have thoroughly enjoyed studying these new texts. Please ask them about it at home!

  The photographs show Year 2 who have been looking at ‘The Farmer and the Clown’.  They created the farmer’s house in the classroom, including the items they thought he would have in his rooms.  They then added some interesting adjectives to describe the items and gave each other guided tours of the house, describing what was inside!

  

• Butterflies in Reception

  Fri 07 Jun 2019
  In order to develop their understanding of the world and as part of their Animals topic, our Reception classes have been learning about the lifecycle of butterflies.  The children cared for little caterpillars and then watched the process of them changing into lovely butterflies.  They then set the butterflies free so that they could continue with their lifecycle.

  

• School Games Cycling Competition

  Fri 07 Jun 2019

  A team of children from years 5 and 6 competed in a cycling competition on Wednesday afternoon, made up of both individual and relay mountain bike events. The children showed great determination throughout as it was extremely hard going on such a challenging, long track!

  Well done to all involved.

  

• Batten Disease Awareness Day

  Fri 07 Jun 2019
  Today we have been participating in Batten Disease Awareness Day by  designing orange wrist bands and wearing them to the morning assembly. Mr Kidger told the children why it is important to be aware of the condition and reminded them of the fun that we had at our fund raising carnival last year .

  

• City of Dreams Event

  Fri 24 May 2019
  Four of our KS2 school council members had an exciting   opportunity to attend the City of Dreams consultation.  The children visited Knoplaw Primary and discussed what barriers there were for children getting involved in cultural activities in our area. The children suggested ideas about how to overcome these barriers and pitched their own Million Pound Idea to help change the face of arts and culture in our area. 

  

• School Games Mini Tennis Competition

  Fri 24 May 2019
  On Wednesday afternoon, some year 4 pupils had a fantastic first taste of competitive mini tennis. The children all  showed great resilience and determination throughout. Mr Elliott was particularly impressed with the progress some of the pupils made over the course of just 3 hours! A huge well done! 

  

• Ancient Greek Topic in Y5

  Fri 24 May 2019
  The Year 5 classes have had visitors from Durham University showing items them their Ancient Greek handling collection. They were able to look at and touch a combination of real and replica objects. They became archaeologists and recorded their findings, whilst trying to work out what the objects were and what they were used for. At the end of the session, all was revealed and they learned some amazing facts about the Ancient Greeks!  They then created their own votive offerings from clay and produced their own campaign as it would have been used in a Greek democracy. They had to use the Greek alphabet to write their campaigns. The final task was to perform a Greek play using costumes and masks.  The children had a fantastic day and learned so much about their topic.

  

• WOW Posters and Badges

  Fri 24 May 2019

  We have celebrated active journeys to school today in our Awards Assembly. 

  Walk to School Poster Competition

  We had some fantastic poster designs submitted for our walk to school poster competition and we had such a difficult time   choosing a winner.  Congratulations to Sophia D in Y5 and to our runners-up:  Toby in Reception, Lindsey in Y4, Sofia R in Y5,  Lucy in Y6 and Olivia in Y6. 

  Thank you to all of the children who submitted a design.  Miss Dockey and Miss Williamson will be  creating a display with all of the posters so that everyone in school can see them.

  WOW Badges

  To celebrate the first month of the WOW programme, all children in Reception to Year 6 have received a WOW badge today.  Please read the letter in your child’s book bag for updates on how this programme will work when we return to school after half term.

   

  

• Allotment Club

  Fri 17 May 2019
  Following on from the work that was done in November by the School Council and the Newcastle University Eco Society, Mr Elliott’s Allotment Club has now started to prepare the beds for planting.  They have been busy clearing all of the weeds and they have some lovely plants and packets of seeds ready to go into the ground.  We can’t wait to eat some of the delicious produce that they will be growing!