The children in art club created some fantastic pieces inspired by artist MC Escher. They used a template to carefully fill the page with the animal faces, ensuring that they tessellated together. They then added detail to each drawing, deciding whether each animal might be a cat, dog, fox or fish.
The finished pieces were fantastic!
Today we visited Hall Hill Farm in Durham. We learned lots of facts about farm animals and enjoyed the bumpy tractor ride!
Check out our water area! This has been a really popular area this half term with children from all year groups. It has been lovely to watch the older children help the younger children.
This week we were lucky enough to have a visit from the writer, rapper and teaching sensation- Christian Foley.
Christian made a big first impression on the children, wowing us with his freestyling skills in a whole school assembly. The children loved his performance and joined in with his nursery grimes and other freestyles.
He then worked with all children from Reception to Year 6 in workshops to develop their poetry skills. The children got to hear stories that Christian has written and also come up with their own ideas.
It has been amazing to see how inspired the children have been following this visit and I know they enjoyed it.
His books can be purchased online.
If you want to know more about Christian Foley please look at his website https://www.christianfoley.co.uk/
We were very lucky to have the writer, poet and rapper Christian Foley work with Year 1 today.
Year 1 helped to create raps and poems, he shared some of his poems and stories with us. We wrote our own poem called ‘I find words’.
We had an amazing morning!
During the Easter break, some of our amazingly talented staff have been in and added more wonderful areas for the children to play with. The children now have a mud kitchen, a water area, a dinosaur digging area and a hill slide! We can’t wait to see what they do and make in these new areas.
We kindly ask parents to ensure children do not play in these areas at home time, as the equipment and areas need to be supervised by staff.
Thank you for your cooperation.
This week the children completed our annual egg competition. There were some fantastic ideas and the children had a ‘CRACKING’ time making them. We were very impressed with their creativity and how independent they were.
Check out some of the amazing enteries!
We hope you all have a lovely Easter!
Well… we have decided to make some changes and add even more zones to make more amazing opportunities for the children to play.
One of those amazing zones will be a Mud Kitchen! If you have any of the following we would appreciate any donations that you have:
We are also adding a water area, we are expecting some serious splashing, mixing and getting just that little bit wet!
We think it would be a great idea if you could send a spare change of clothing if you know they like getting wet.
Thank you for your continued support.
Northumbria Police have asked us to share the attached information ahead of the Easter break in relation to a rise in incidents of unsafe behaviour among young people in the local community.
