Happy New Year! Year 5 have had a wonderful start to the new year. The children have been incredibly busy the last two days. In English, they re-capped what they learnt in the previous half term. The children also worked in small groups with an adult to complete a...
This week, as part of the Northern Children’s Book Festival, our Year 1 and Year 2 pupils had the wonderful opportunity to meet a real author! Nishani Reed, writer of the delightful children’s book No Cheese Please!, joined us to share her story and inspire our young...
In Year 1, we have been learning about verbs and using them to write instructions for baking gingerbread cookies, inspired by our story The Gingerbread Man.. The children enjoyed mixing the ingredients together, cutting the different shapes with the cutter and of...
We are delighted to share that we have become a Little Wandle Champion School! This means our school has met the Little Wandle Standards of Excellence in the teaching of early reading and phonics. We will now be working closely with Little Wandle to share the...
In Drawing Club this week we listened to the story of Rama and Sita, as this week it is the Hindu festival of light - Diwali. We drew our own demons in drawing club, made our own Diva lights from salt dough and decorated them with sequins and listened to some...
On Thursday 2nd October, the children at St Aidan's celebrated National Poetry Day by welcoming poet Michael de Souza, the creator of Rastamouse, into our school. We began the day with an interactive, whole-school assembly where we listened to, recited and performed...