Reception class had a visit from Mrs Taster from Tiny Tasters today. We listened, watched and worked hard to create Rainbow Fishcakes. Mrs Tasters taught us all about the journey of the ingredients we used, including the sweet potato. We enjoyed measuring, scooping,...
Events and Visits
Year 4’s trip to Holy Island
Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their trip to Holy Island on Monday. They walked on the beach looking for shells and found crabs in rock pools. They walked over to St Cuthbert’s Island to reflect and look for seals. They then walked across the harbour to Lindisfarne Castle...
Year 2’s visit to Holy Island
What a fantastic day we had on Monday! Our visit to Holy Island was filled with awe and wonder as we visited an unknown destination. The children in Year 2 shouted with excitement as we saw Bamburgh Castle, which we had seen only weeks before, pass by the window. We...
Year 5’s visit to Holy Island
St Aidan’s had an amazing opportunity to visit Holy Island this week. Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed their visit, they have learnt about St Aidan and why our school is named after him. We participated in a picture trail around the island where we had to locate a variety of...
Year 5’s trip to the Baltic Museum
Today year 5 visited the Baltic museum, they have participated in a pop art creative workshop and have learnt a variety of art techniques including ink transferring, printing and tracing. They have explored the artist Andy Warhol and explored his famous art prints of...
Special Places – St Chad’s Church
Reception Class took a lovely sunny stroll to our parish church of St Chad’s in Bensham as part of our RE topic on ‘Special Places’. We were welcomed by Reverend Hannah and Marilyn who kindly showed us around the beautiful building. They explained to us why the church...





