We were very lucky to have a visit from Animal Antics this afternoon in Nursery. The children loved meeting different animals including mice called Pip and Squeak, a rabbit called Barney, a snake called Cornflake, a Pygmy hedgehog and an owl called Bracken. The...
This week, we went on our first trip in Year 2 and we visited Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. In the morning, we took part in an Art workshop and created some wonderful sketches of plants. We then used these sketches to create a piece of artwork using oil...
What a treat we had at St Aidan’s this week. We were fortunate enough to have a visit from The Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir all the way from Uganda. The choir, consisting of 9 young people aged 10-18 along with 3 teachers, spent the day with us and it is certainly...
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...
This half term in RSHE we have been looking at how we’ve grown and changed from being a baby to 6 years old. We discovered we can do lots of different things now and most importantly we are much more independent. As part of this unit Miss Quinn shared videos of her...
To celebrate the school year, classes from reception to year 6 attended St Chad's for a communion service. The theme was change and moving on, for some children this is moving classes and getting a new teacher, and for the year 6 children it is moving to a new school....