Events and Visits
World Book Week
We enjoyed a jam packed week this week. Welcoming our parents and carers in to school to share a book, dressing up as our favourite characters from a book on Friday and enjoying a story (or two) with the children from year 3.
The Feast of St Chad
To mark the feast of St Chad on March 2nd, our school choir went along to a special fair at St Chad’s Church. The children gave up their spare time on Saturday morning to perform some of their favourite songs and hymns for the church community. The children had a...
Chinese New Year
Today is Chinese New Year, the year of the Snake. In preparation for the celebrations we have cleaned and decorated our classroom as well as trying sweet and sour rice , prawn crackers and egg fried rice. We had a lovely day listening to Chinese Music and taking part...
Spreading Christmas Cheer
Over the last two weeks, our wonderful school choir have been spreading Christmas cheer out in our local community. They visited Armstrong House and Rosewood care homes as well as Teams and Bensham Community Centre to entertain the Luncheon Club. The choir performed a...
Dress Up for Christmas Day 2024
Today in school, we all celebrated ‘Dress Up for Christmas Day 2024’. We all arrived into school wearing something festive, such as; a Christmas jumper, Santa hat or tinsel in our hair! We all looked fabulous! In assembly, Mrs Lain, Mrs Gourley and some children in...
Reception Class Stay and Play
Yesterday we invited our grownup’s to join us at our Christmas Stay and Play. We had a wonderful afternoon taking part in lots of Christmas activities and showing our grownup’s our classroom and outside area. We had a special visit from Santa where we all told Santa...
The Great Fire of Gateshead Workshop
Year 3 have today enjoyed a visit to The Discovery Museum in Newcastle to learn about the Great Fire of Gateshead. Following some fun exploring and investigating in the Science room, the children enjoyed lunch with their friends and then the very informative workshop...
A Freezing, Frosty, Muddy Monsters!
At the start of today’s session, Phil had a talk with the children inside of class about health and safety when in Forest School. He then showed the children the monsters who have came to play; Chloe who likes painting, Ella who likes making dens and Eddie who enjoys...
Music – Christmas Carolling
We welcomed Ednie from Side by Side Arts into our Music lesson today. Ednie said the children were going to learn and sing songs about Christmas. She first asked the children what a carol is? Some comments included: ‘Choirs sing them’ ‘Is it a song that tells a...
The Great Fire Of Gateshead
Year 3 walked along to the Quayside this afternoon to visit the site of Wilson's factory in Gateshead, where the Great Fire of Gateshead started. On the way, we past the old Police Station at the end of Swing Bridge where PC Ewart first raised the alarm of the fire....