Every Thursday after school, Phil from Muddy Monsters is holding a Forest School club for children in Key Stage 2. Usually, the children would be exploring Forest School in our school grounds, however, because of the weather in Gateshead today, it put a stop to our...
Art and Design
What we’ve been up to this week…
This week in Year 5, the children have worked incredibly hard in each of their lessons. In Science, we looked at the human cycle. We discussed what happens to our bodies and how we grow and develop as we get older. In English, we continued our topic of ‘Fairytales’,...
Our First Week in Year 5…
What an amazing start to our new year group we have had! It has been such a busy, hard working and extremely fun start to our year. On Tuesday, myself and Mrs Bullerwell had a lovely day getting to know our children in class. We spent the day creating our Year 5...
Self Portraits
This afternoon we took a look at some famous artists self portraits. We thought about the word portrait and what it could mean, using the clues the children decided it meant drawing or painting a picture of you. Some children said it was like a selfie you might take...
Ahoy Matey!
Following on with reading ‘Aliens love underpants’, Nursery were so excited to take part in pirate themed activities this week. On Monday and Tuesday, the children created their own pirate hats. They designed the front of their hats using paint, sequins and tissue...
Goodbye Year 4, Hello Year 5!
This morning in school, it was St. Aidan’s transition day! The children who are currently in Year 4, transitioned to the Year 5 classroom, along with their new teacher Mrs Bullerwell and new Teaching Assistant, Miss Greenwell. We had a lovely morning getting to know...





