As part of our Science topic ‘Women in Science’, we have been learning about Mary Anning who was a female palaeontologist where she studied about fossils. Year 2 had a lovely day at the Great North Museum. We first split up into groups to explore the Fossils section...
Reception’s topic this term was the seaside. Children learnt a lot about the seaside in their classroom, but it was time to learn more beyond the four walls of their classroom. Children ventured on the bus as they saw the sea, sand and lighthouses. When the children...
Everyone from year 5 got to visit STEMfest. It had different areas to go in: Space, Technology, Environment and Manufacturing. Most people had a favourite place and mine was space because I loved all the different things about the planets. I even held something which...
What a fantastic day we have had today! The children have very much enjoyed themselves. After a long journey on the coach, we first looked at some artefacts and recalled lots of facts about the historical event in the Grace Darling Museum. We then visited Grace...
Nursery have been reading the story ‘Keith the Cat with the Magic Hat’ by Sue Hendra as part of our ‘At the Seaside’ topic. We decided to have a go at making our own ‘magic’ 5 minute ice cream in a bag. We mixed the ingredients - cream, vanilla essence and sugar in a...
Today we had a great day at the Discovery Museum. We started with Professor Pumpernickel’s Science Show where he wowed us with tricks, chemistry and lots of fun. There was fire, explosions, chemical reactions….. and magic? Or was it really science?!?! We even watched...