Animal care
In animal care we have been creating dog and cat toys using upcycled materials. This is part of our enterprise project. We would really appreciate any donations of clothing, pillows/cushions or 500ml pop bottles.
Making Italy
Beech children have been learning about the physical geography of Italy – mountains, river and volcanoes – using plasticene. Have you heard of the Appenines, the Alps, the River Po, Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius? We have!!
Birch Dictionary Fun!
Today for our English we started to understand the difference between a Dictionary and a Thesaurus. We started to practise finding words in a dictionary and being able to identify the meaning of the words. We wrote the type of word such as a verb or a adjective. We also wrote the definition of the…
Children in need celebrations in Rowan (Article 28,31)
Today in Rowan we celebrated over thirty years of Children in need by taking part in a eye spy Pudsey and his objects, watched a video clip on BBC website to learn all the facts about why and when Pudsey was created and finished with a tea party in the street with cake and popcorn. …
Children in Need 2022
Hazel class enjoyed Children in Need 2022 We created our own Pudsey bears and joined in with Joe Wicks workout.
Who will help me bake this bread?
Maple class have been looking at the story of The Little Red Hen. We decided to make some bread. We did not think that the animals in the story were very kind as they did not help to make the bread. We all decided to help each other and enjoyed tasting the bread when it…
We are now officially an Eco-School
We have received the fantastic news that all our efforts in being more environmentally friendly at Croft community School have been officially recognised and we received our certification and are now an Eco- school.
9G Lindisfarne Gospels
What an amazing couple of days we have had. First of all the Laing Art Gallery Learning Team visited 9G in school to tell them about the Lindisfarne Gospels. They learned how the artwork tells the stories of Christianity, and how the paints used were derived from natural materials such as copper, oak galls and…
Cubist art in Beech
Beech have been inspired by Picasso’s Weeping Woman as they learn about Cubism. We have made 2 versions, as we learn to revisit and revise. The children preferred the second version!