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’Think Good, Feel Good’ – Session 3
At the start of today’s session, we played a warm up memory game. We then re-capped our last lesson about stop and go thoughts, whilst looking at what mind readers, dustbin labels and negative glasses are. We then looked at; The 4 C’s. The children learnt when they...
Newsletter 30.01.26
The latest copy of our School Newsletter is available to download as a PDF. Please note, you will already have received this by email. January 30.01.26
Umuganda
in R.E we gave been learning about a community project called Umuganda in Rwanda, where every month the whole community gather together to take care of their environment cleaning and caring for their village. When the community gathers this build the foundations for...
’Think Good, Feel Good’ – Session 2
Yesterday afternoon, some children from Year 5 and 6 took part in session 2 of; ‘Think Good, Feel Good’. At the start of the session, the group played a game of Pictionary as a warm up. Hannah then showed us the ‘hot cross bun’ method, which shows us how our thoughts...
Our visit to a Jewish Synagogue
This morning, Year 5 visited a Jewish Synagogue in Newcastle as part of their learning of; Judaism in RE. We met Jonathan and Helen Brady who were our speakers for the day and who lead their progressive synagogue. First, we learnt that the lectern that was in...
Chocolate Melting Experiment
Last week, Year 4 rolled up their sleeves for a deliciously fun experiment: melting chocolate! We explored how matter can change states by either melting or freezing. We started by placing white, dark and milk chocolate on the radiators to see which colour chocolate...
Music throughout the years
This half term in Music, Year 5 have been looking at music throughout the years. First, we listened to different pieces of Jazz Music, including; Nina Simone and Louie Armstrong. We learnt about a musician called Ella Fitzgerald, who was famous for ‘scatting’, which...
Classical and Baroque Music
In our Music lessons so far this half term, Year 3 have been learning about Classical and Baroque music. We focused on Beethoven and created a case study. We learnt that Beethoven's pieces of music are incredibly complicated. Beethoven trained as a musician from the...
Tree Planting
Last week, we were very fortunate to welcome Jess to St. Aidan's from the Royal Forestry Society. Jess worked with the School Council and children throughout the school to plant over 170 tree saplings in our school grounds. The children learnt that planting trees...
Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions
At the beginning of this week in Maths, focused on converting improper fractions to mixed numbers. We used our division knowledge to work out how many whole numbers were in each fraction and how much fraction was left over. Today, we converted a mixed number into an...