Walking in Rose’s Shoes: Year 6 Diary Writing
This week in Year 6, our writing lessons were inspired by Rose Blanche, a powerful story set in Germany during World War II. The story follows a young German girl, who after following a group of soldiers, makes a shocking discovery: a concentration camp hidden on the outskirts of her town. As we…
🍫 A Sweet Adventure with Roald Dahl
On Monday, our Year 5 pupils were giving the opportunity to visit our local Library for a fantastic session all about Roald Dahl. After a short and pleasant walk, pupils were greeted by Library staff and given a workshop about some of the different books written by the famous author. I was so…
🚀 Four Weeks In: Look How Far We’ve Come!
A big feature of this week has been taking time to reflect on how far the class have come in such a short space of time. They have taken on so much new information and mastered so many new approaches to their learning that it is hard to believe this is only our fourth week together.
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Class 3 painting the town red… with paprika
The Iron Man is causing no end of trouble for the villagers and farmers. We’ve looked at how author’s build up an atmosphere of tension, describing an approaching threat and we’ve had a go at creating our own piece of atmospheric writing. Ask your child what kind of strange creature they created…
Year 2 Bring St Cuthbert’s Story to Life
What a fabulous way to start a new week with a visit to the wonderful Durham Cathedral. We started the day with a guided tour of the Cathedral. A real highlight for everyone was seeing the tomb of St Cuthbert.
After lunch (the part of the day a lot of us were looking forward to!) we became…
Into the Wild: Year 1 at Wharton Park!
Year 1 had a fantastic time on their trip to Wharton Park! The children enjoyed exploring the outdoors and taking part in a range of exciting nature-based activities.
We began with a nature walk, where the children looked closely at their surroundings and enjoyed discovering what they could…
🐛 Bug Hunting and Outdoor Adventures
This week, the children have had a lovely time at Forest School. They have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the outdoors, looking for bugs, making bug houses and digging for treasure.
It has been lovely to see them developing their confidence, independence and teamwork skills while having lots of…
Marvellous matching
This week, we have been finding things which match. We have found matching colours, sizes and shapes. When we arrived at nursery on Thursday, Squawk (our pet parrot) had muddled up all of our wellies. We had to sort them making sure each pair was exactly the same and showed Squawk how to…
