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’Think Good, Feel Good’
This afternoon, some children from Year 5 and 6 were chosen to take part in a new programme called; ‘Think Good, Feel Good’. The programme will run for 6 weeks with Miss Greenwell and Hannah Long from Gateshead Council. The first session was called; ‘Be kind to...
Planning a formal letter
On Friday morning in English, Year 5 began planning the writing of a formal letter. Our piece of writing this half term is based on ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. The children are writing a letter, pretending to apply for a job on board Shackleton’s ship, ‘The Endurance’, to...
Maths
This week in maths we have been exploring number bonds to five. We have used bean bags, cubes, dice and games to help us learn our number bonds.
Able Writer’s Day
Today, two children from Year 5 and two children from Year 6 were selected to take part in an Able Writer's Day at Kelvin Grove Primary School. Once we arrived, we were greeted by the author Thomas Rodgers. The children were set away with a task to demonstrate their...
Column addition using exchanges
This morning in Maths, Year 3 were adding 2, 3 digit numbers with an exchange. At the start of the lesson, the children worked together in groups to complete a 4 times table game, where they had to correctly line up the 4 times table in order. The children...
Settling in at Nursery
We have had a lovely first week back after the Christmas break, our new starters have settled straight in to our nursery routines.
Converting units of time
This morning in Maths, we began our new topic; Time. For our starter, we discussed what we can do or what can happen in different amounts of time. Some of our answers included the following: 1 minute - making a drink 1 hour - taking a nap 1 day - building a large lego...
Newsletter 09.01.26
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 09.01.26
The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
This half term in literacy, we are reading The Tunnel by Anthony Browne. This week, we have been taking part in a range of listening and speaking activities to help us become familiar with the text. We made predictions about what might be in the tunnel and...
Football
Today we have enjoyed taking part in Little Kickers. Our coach came into school and helped us to listen to instructions, kick the ball, take turns and to control the ball. We all really enjoyed taking part.