This year Hadrian’s Wall is celebrating its 1900th anniversary. Years 1 to 6 took part in online workshops delivered by Tyne and Wear Museums as part of their ‘Virtual Hadrian’s Wall Day’.
We are working on a very exciting project in school. We have all been learning about Hadrian’s Wall and every child has made their own ‘fact brick’. We look forward to sharing the finished project with you soon!
Here are some pictures of our bricks. Can you guess what we are building?
The children from reception to year 6 love lunchtime club. Have a look at our photos and see what we have been up to this half term.
We had a fantastic time when Richard, That History Bloke came to visit to help us learn all about George Stephenson. We took part in a True or False game and compared photos to help find out about George growing up. Then, we looked at his inventions, including the Geordie Lamp and The Rocket locomotive. We even made our own candles that miners used to use and created clay models of The Rocket.
In Science this week, Y2L have been looking at microhabitats. We decided to go on a mini-beast hunt around the school, looking for different microhabitats where living things may be surviving. It was fantastic observing all of the mini-beasts and thinking about why they were suited to their environment.
This month we were very excited to be able to celebrate our Reader’s of the month on World Book Day! The children have been chosen because of their fantastic achievements in Reading at school and at home.
Well done everyone, we are so proud of you!
Y1A- Emilia Carr
Y1S- Oliver Lee
Y1B- Leo Bonhomme
Y2P- Charlie Snailham
Y2L- Daniel Hall
Y2M- Lucas Taylor
Y3S- Charlotte Henderson
Y3W- Lilly Storey
Y3D- Mya Fennel
Y4E- Amelie Iddon
Y4C- Maizie Wann
Y4B- Abbey Nichols
Y5F- Zofia Bean
Y5W- Miley Twigg
Y5L- Alfie Pitt
Y6F- Caitlin Young
Y6A- Ellie May Jopling
Y6D- Tommy Lewis
Meet our ‘Readers of the Month’ for January. The children have been chosen for their amazing efforts with reading in school. Reading is such an important part of our curriculum and we know the children love reading, sharing books and celebrating their achievements. We are so proud of you all!
1A Hunter Telfer
1S Leon Mills
1B Belle Russell
2P Liam Woodrow
2L Ben Chisolm
2M Adam Ivanov
3S Jacob Vacher
3W Charlie Heslop
3D Derek Flynn
4E Jaycob Hudson
4C Remmi Spiller
4B Max Cockburn
5F James McCourt
5W Maratha Finnegan
5L Maxwell Marley
6F Maizie Railton
6A Molly Brown
6D Lily Davies
Congratulations, we hope you enjoy reading your new books at home.
Take a look at the Books for Topics site for their December “Books We Love This Month”. This month’s recommendations are full of wonderful books linked to Christmas.
Link to Books for Topics Website
Here are our ‘Words of the Week’ for KS1 and KS2 this week.
Key Stage 1 words are Grasshopper
Key Stage 2 words are Shinobi
Year 2 had a brilliant time at Beamish as part of their coalmining topic in History. They learned about life as a coalminer and how living conditions were very different then, they were shocked to find out you had to go outside to the toilet and grandparents slept in a cupboard in the living room!
They took a ‘shift’ down in the coal mine to experience how it would’ve been for many children to work in the cold, dark and damp conditions.
Finally, the children went back in time and took part in a Victorian school lesson. They had to stand when speaking to the teacher and call her ma’am. Everyone had an amazing time.
Here are our ‘Words of the Week’ for KS1 and KS2 this week.
Key Stage 1 words are Grasshopper
Key Stage 2 words are Shinobi
