Events and Visits
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...
Key stage 2 Safer Internet Assembly
We enjoyed an informative and interactive workshop with Tony and Dan from Clennell Education Solutions where we talked about being safe online. Tony talked about wanting to live in a world where we are all equal and treat people with respect. He reminded us of the...
Number Day in Year 2
Today, Year 2 have enjoyed lots of fun activities to celebrate Number Day. Some of the activities we did include a Maths quiz in the hall led by Mr Thorogood. Children were sat in house groups and had answered a range of maths questions. The fun did not stop as we...
Year 2 at Gibside
In English, we are reading ‘A First Book of Nature’ by Nicola Davies. We have learnt lots about nature and this week we went to Gibside National Trust and had a fantastic time. We first got on the coach with excitement and after 20 minutes of our journey, we were...
Year 5 Number Day
Year 5 had great fun celebrating number day. They took part in a times table hunt on the castle, gained points for the NSPCC TT Rockstars competition, investigated Fibonacci number sequences and finally took part in a Number Day quiz against their peers. Well done to...