Reception Harvest festival using our senses!

24th October 2023K Richardson

As part of our Learning Means The World theme, ‘Happy to be me,’ we have been using our senses. We investigated some fruit and vegetables, then we decided to make some soup. We also talked about the Harvest festival and how we celebrate crops that are gathered from the fields and all the foods we eat. We also talked about how foods can be shared within the local community. This afternoon we tasted our soup, it was delicious! A big well done to children who weren’t sure if they would like the soup but gave it a try 🥕🧅🥦🫑

 

 

3 Red went Under the Canopy!

16th June 2023L Martin

3 Red had a fantastic experience from start to finish yesterday at Sunderland Winter Gardens, where we became Rainforest Explorers for the day!

We impressed the the learning team with our knowledge of all things rainforest, before exploring the rainforest by following the ‘Luna the Lemur’ trail.

Year 4’s Highland Games.

12th June 2023L Davison

As part of our LMTW theme ‘Picture our Planet’, we researched four of the highland games, shotput, caber toss, hammer throw and tug ‘o’ war. We found out about the games’ history, the rules and how to play. Then we taught each other how to play the different games.

We had so much fun taking part in the games, bring on sports day!

 

 

1 Red went to the Centre for Life

9th June 2023L Chisholm

Year 1 went to the Centre for Life as part of our theme ‘Light Up The World’.  We had a really great day exploring our universe.  We completed some map work by looking at different continents and which animals came from which country.  We then took part in a ‘Gross Bodies’ theatre show where we discovered what horrible things our bodies do to keep us healthy.  We explored space, its planets, a space rocket and mission control; then took at tour through the stars in the planetarium.  We explored different machines and how they worked and what a great brain we have.  It was a brilliant day and we have learnt so much!

Easter Fun in Reception!

30th March 2023K Richardson

This week we have read the Easter story and then used story stones to sequence it. We have made transient art Easter bunnies and eggs, used eggs to create number bonds of 10, bunny baskets and Easter nests and cards. We also used paint outside to create Easter eggs and wrote some amazing Easter captions, what a busy week 🐇❤️🥚🐇❤️🥚

 

Bite into a slice of Greece!

14th March 2023ashleigh clark

In Year 3, we have experienced life in Greece today by tasting lots of popular Greek foods. We tasted feta cheese, pitta bread, tzatziki, hummus and olives. We needed to be brave as some of us were nervous to try certain foods. However, we acted like true Adventurers and gave it a go! Some of us were surprised at how tasty lots of the items were!

 

 

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Eco – Schools Award

14th February 2023deput y

Councillor David Francis joined us as a special guest in our assembly. He is a local councillor who is a member of the Green Party. He talked to us about what inspired him to want to make a difference in his local community and then presented the Eco Warriers with the Eco -Schools Award flag and certificate.

We look forward to welcoming him back to school so that he can find out more about our Conservation themes.

 

1 Red are making music

9th February 2023L Chisholm

Unity In The Community is a lovely theme which teaches us all about our surrounding areas and to look at them in different ways.  We have been looking at not taking our lovely area for granted and to think about it with positivity.  We had a look at some very boring signs that we often see in the area around us and we decided to allocate each sign a sound.  After a while we realised that we had become composers and had created a musical story.  We then used 2Simple to generate our story and listened to our creations.  Look out Top Of The Pops!

School Council and Eco Warriors Bird Feeder Project

7th February 2023K Richardson

Last week the School Council and Eco Warriors worked together on a bird feeder project. We had a visit from Groundworks who talked to the children about visiting the tip, why you would go and what the children had dropped off.  We then discussed how we deal with rubbish and recycling and the importance of 3 R’s –  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
We learned the importance of keeping the earth happy and the damage of climate change.  The teams made bird feeders from recyclable material and then we hung them around our gardens!  The two groups worked so well together and were a credit to us all.