Events and Visits
World Book Day in Year 2
We have enjoyed celebrating World Book Day in Year 2. Miss Ho and Miss Greenwell were amazed by the huge amount of effort children have came in dressed up as characters from stories. We had Elmer, Harry Potter, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many more! In the...
World Book Day in Year 6
What a wonderful day we have had in Year 6! This morning, we enjoyed reading with the children in Year 2 followed by a creative writing lesson where we were challenged to create our own characters, settings and short stories and an assembly led by Mrs Fraser and the...
World Book Day in Year 5
Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Trippier.... just a few of the people in Year 5 today to celebrate World Book Day! The children had a great time taking part in quizzes, designing their own book covers, creating their own stories and ended the day sharing a book...
World Book Day
This week we have enjoyed taking part in book activities for World Book, which took place on Thursday. Today we dressed up as characters from stories we have read and shared some of these books with our friends from year four. Year four were amazing readers and we...
Reading for Pleasure Workshop
Today Nursery had a visit from Joanne from Gateshead Library as part of our ‘Book Week’ in school. Parents were invited to join us as we shared some new stories together. The stories were very funny and we loved helping Joanne sing along to ‘Whales on the Bus’. We...
Angel of the North Exhibition of Work
On Friday 17th February, we welcomed parents of all children from Year 1 to Year 6 to visit our Angel of the North exhibition, which celebrated our fantastic English, art and history work that we had been working on throughout the last week of half term! It was...
Celebrating the Angel of the North
Year 2 have celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Angel of the North. We have completed a range of activities to celebrate the Angel’s birthday. In Art, we created a sculpture of the Angel using found objects, inspired by Antony Gormley and the artist we have been...
Angel of the North photographers
Year 5 enjoyed their visit to the Angel of the North as part of the 25th birthday celebrations. They took ipads to take photographs from different perspectives. When they returned to school, they applied filters and the photographs are stunning!
A Huge Happy Birthday Celebration
Today, the 15th February, is the birthday of our very own Angel of the North. The iconic sculpture is 25 years old and at St Aidan's we have ensured we have celebrated in style. For the past few weeks we have been preparing for this momentous occasion with local...
The Angel Of The North
As a whole school art project, to celebrate the Angel of the North’s 25th birthday. We visited the angel on a school trip. When we arrived, we spent time using our art skills to learn more about the amazing, Gateshead angel. Picking up our charcoals, pencils, iPads...