Every morning, when the children arrive into school, Reception class practice their independent writing skills by describing what they can see in an image on the screen. The children have been working very hard over the last few weeks to show off their skills such as...
The children had a wonderful day visiting the Grace Darling Museum in Bamburgh. They enjoyed learning about the brave story of Grace Darling and had great fun acting out parts of the story together. We enjoyed lunch in the gardens, tasted some...
This week in Drawing Club, Reception class have been reading the story, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’ In our books, we used our code for the story in order for us to write a sentence about what we would find at the top of a beanstalk if we were Jack. We had some wonderful...
In Drawing Club last week, Reception class have been reading ‘The Flower’ by John Light. “When Brigg discovers a book in the library labelled ‘Do Not Read’, he cannot resist taking it home. It leads him to an unexpected discovery, which brings brightness and beauty to...
Last week, St Aidan’s enjoyed celebrating Book Week with many book-themed activities across the week. We discussed the importance of reading for pleasure to develop our vocabulary, knowledge and understanding of the world and learning across the curriculum as well as...
This week, Year 4 have been celebrating World Book Week. Our week began with some of our parents and carers visiting us in the school library, where we shared and read some of our favourite books to them. On Thursday, we took a trip to the Dunston Activity Centre...