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  • 31/03/26

    Early year visit to South Dene Garden Centre

    Nursery and Reception joined together for a trip to Saltwell Park and South Dene Garden Centre this morning. We had a lovely Spring walk, looking for signs of growing on the way and then visited the garden centre to see the plants that were growing there. We were even lucky enough to be invite...
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  • 31/03/26

    Music Assembly

    The whole school enjoyed an impressive musical performance yesterday. Year 2 showed their percussion skills, keeping a steady beat and following rhythms. Year 4 impressed with their glockenspiel playing, reading notation and performing clear, tuned melodies. A fantastic celebration of music...
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  • 31/03/26

    Year 3 fractions

    Year 3 have been learning all about fractions in Maths this morning! First, we were introduced to a unit fraction and in pairs explored how we can represent this using paper bar models. Then, we used even more practical resources to sort different fractions! We even had a big challenge to use...
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  • 31/03/26

    Year 1 Geography

    Year 1 have been exploring physical and human features in Geography this week! They also put their cutting and sticking skills to the test as they sorted them into correct groups!  
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  • 31/03/26

    Signed storytime

    Last week, some of our nursery children enjoyed a story with sign language in the school library. Our visitor, Jill, read a story with BSL signs and encouraged the children to join in. They did a fabulous job.  
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  • 31/03/26

    Author visit

    Yesterday, Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to be joined by an award winning author!! Chloe Daykin joined us to discuss her inspiring journey into writing and how she published her first book! We completed lots of tasks and even got to take a signed copy of her book home!!  
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  • 31/03/26

    Grandad's Island

    Year 2 have been working hard in their English lessons. Today we sequenced our story book ‘Grandad’s Island’ in preparation for our recount of the story that we will be writing next week. We thought about different words and phrases used from the story and how each character...
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  • 31/03/26

    History in Year 3

    We have been historians today in Year 3! Today we were tasked with grouping images based on if they are Celtic farms or Roman towns. We worked in teams to group them and we explained all our reasoning to one another. We further explored the improvements the Romans made to Britain and which one...
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  • 31/03/26

    Dance Festival 2026

    Dance Festival 2026 What a fantastic afternoon watching a group of our KS2 children perform in Gateshead School’s Dance Festival run by Gateshead School Sports Partnership After months of rehearsals the children finally got to perform their dance based on the theme of inspiration!! B...
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  • 31/03/26

    Easter Stay & Play

    Today we enjoyed another Stay & Play in Early Years - we always love to see the children enjoying their classrooms with their grown-ups and it’s always extra fun when we get to spend time outdoors too……………even though we were interrupted by hailstones...
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  • 31/03/26

    Comic relief & Down syndrome day

    Today we have been celebrating Comic Relief and World Down Syndrome day in school. It's been great to see so many crazy hairstyles and odd socks, it's definitely been a colourful day! We raised just over £130 which will be spilt between the 2 charities. Thank you to everyone for...
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  • 31/03/26

    Y1 visit WWT

    What an incredible day Year 1 had yesterday at Washington Wetlands! The children had so much fun pond dipping, discovering lots of fascinating mini beasts, and even got to watch the otters at feeding time So many smiles, lots of learning, and wonderful memories made!  
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