13/11/23
EYFS Outdoor Learning
Last week we had some new grass added to our EYFS outdoor area. Nursery and Reception were excited to try it out today and and had lots of fun exploring with their friends.
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- 27/10/23
Year 1 Learning in the Classroom Environment
The children have made an excellent start to Year 1 this half term. We have learnt so much already and we were all very proud to take home our own Old Bear books today. The children have also had a chance to explore and learn through the resources in our classroom and in our outdoor envi...Read Full Story - 23/10/23
Shipley Art Gallery
On Friday, Year 4 enjoyed a trip to the Shipley Art Gallery. We explored different types of art on display, including sculptures, paintings, drawings and textiles. After a look around, we started our sculpture workshop, during which we explored ceramic sculptures. We discussed the function of...Read Full Story - 22/10/23
A mysterious hole, jumbled sentences, the number 5 and outdoor fun!
Last week was another busy one for Reception. The children have been exploring our class text, The Something - a mysterious hole has appeared in a little boy's garden and he is determined to find out what is down there. The boy from the story needed our help to sort out the sentences he had writ...Read Full Story - 13/10/23
Year 1 Kirkley Hall Forest
Year 1 had a fantastic day at Kirkley Hall Forest. We explored the Bear Trail and found a stream at the bottom of the woods. We then went on a tree seed hunt and matched them to trees in the forest. After a cosy lunch in the Outdoor Learning Classroom we headed back to the forest t...Read Full Story - 12/10/23
BSL Buddies
Year 4 take part in a BSL Buddies lesson every week, in this lesson we learn how to use British Sign Language to communicate with others. This week we explored signs for our favourite foods, such as pizza, salad and ice cream! We can’t wait to share the signs with our friends and family at hom...Read Full Story - 12/10/23
Food tasting in nursery!!
We had an interest in different types of food in nursery this week. Due to this, we had a food tasting session! We tried grapefruit, raspberries, strawberries, bananas, watermelon, pomegranate, peaches, apricots, blueberries and we even made our own fruit juice! The children were so confident trying...Read Full Story - 06/10/23
Reception Round-Up
Reception have been busy this week with lots of different activities. In our literacy sessions The Colour Monster had made some labels to help him with tidying up - we read his labels and matched them to the correct objects, using our best Fred-talking. We then matched some labels in our books and l...Read Full Story - 06/10/23
Year 1 Old Bear Books
This week Year 1 have been writing their own story of Old Bear. Today we illustrated our front covers and learned about titles. We have been working very hard to complete our books and are looking forward to sharing them with our families.Read Full Story - 06/10/23
Our favourite way to end the day
Year 2 have been captured by the story of George’s Marvellous Medicine. We love to read a chapter of our class chapter book every night before home time. We sit back, relax and have the fire burning whilst we enjoyed listening. We are around half way through the book and once we complete the s...Read Full Story - 05/10/23
Nursery's Library Trip!
Nursery have so much fun going to the library on a Wednesday. We all take it in turns to choose a special book from the school library, which we get to take home and bring back the next week. We then choose a class story to read in the library. This week we chose 'Dear Zoo', we found this ve...Read Full Story - 29/09/23
Y6 History Bloke
Year 6 were visited by The History Bloke this week. They researched what life was like on the home front during WWII and how Gateshead was effected during the war. The children looked at the belongings of an evacuee, an Air Raid Warden (ARW) and what might have been found in a typical home during th...Read Full Story