To introduce our new Science topic, Earth and Space, Beech class have been learning about the shape of the earth, moon and sun and how we know. We looked at Aristotle’s theory, which suggested that the earth is a sphere and then created our own version of planet earth. We have all settled back in…
What a fun day exploring Saltwell park! Beech walked around pets corner, ran through a maze and meandered around the rose garden, before stopping for some lunch. After lunch we enjoyed a ride around the lake on Thomas the Tank Engine, before playing in the park on some pretty exciting climbing equipment! What a lovely…
Beech class visited the outdoor educational to enjoy some amazing stone baked pizzas, baked in our new pizza oven. Mr Harrison and his gang have done an awesome job building it. We were able to add some of our own home-grown basil or parsley, which we all agreed made it even richer and nicer!
The first of our onion crop has been used to make our cheese and onion quiche by the kitchen cook for school dinners. It went down well with the students – just ask them!
Beech class visited Tesco as part of some amazing maths work to calculate quantities needed to make cupcakes. The children walked all the way there on a very hot morning, showing brilliant road safety. Once inside Tesco, they worked as a team to use the shopping list and to use the self checkout at the…
WHOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPP!!!!!! Beech have worked so hard on their reimagined pallet planter which involved painting, composting and potting on some beautiful red, white and blue flowers! What do you all think of it?
Beech’s long term project of creating a bee garden is nearing completion. As you can see our beautiful plants are here and surrounded by some gorgeous bark and logged edging.
Today marked the rebirth of our Outdoor Ed area! Thank you to everyone who supported us on the day and helped to make it such a success: the adults – Joan, Daniel, Kevan, Kay and Kevin, John, John, James and the PTA (who kept us hydrated and fed); the pupils (primary and secondary) for for…
We went to check out Antony Gormley’s sculpture (Angel of the North) in Gateshead. Did you know… One person sees it every second! The wing span is wider than a Boeing 757 jet! It is as tall as 4 double decker busses! Below are some photos our wonderful students took.