P4 have been lucky enough to have coaching from Durham Cricket Club to learn how to play Table Top Cricket. It was great fun and we quickly worked out how good we all were at playing. There was lots of team encouragement. We have been invited to a tournament, where we will play competitively against…
P4 love taking their learning outside. It was a chilly day, but that didn’t stop their learning. The children needed to find 10 natural objects and sort these using any criteria. The children explained how they sorted the objects using good spoken language skills. The children then discovered a letter from Willy Wonka, who wanted…
P4 have started to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in English, to link with their topic. Everyone was amazed as one student brought in a Wonka Bar. The classroom was filled with excitement and nervous tension as the chocolate bar was being opened. Suddenly, a glint of gold was spotted and there it was…a…
The children in P4 are very excited to be learning all about chocolate this term. A sensational start was made to the topic where the children tasted different chocolate and tried to guess which chocolate was which. This was much tricky than they thought. The children started to consider whether they would enjoy chocolate as…
P3 went outside in the OPAL area this afternoon to investigate different habitats and to see if they could find any minibeasts. We used magnifying glasses to try and find even the smallest of insects. P3 found a birds nest and some worms, slugs and…
In P5 and P6 today we have been looking at elements, compounds and mixtures. Pupils have been describing what elements, compounds and mixtures look like and looking at examples.
In memory of Martin Luther King Jr P3 read the story ‘Tusk Tusk’. We discussed what we liked and disliked about the story. Majority of the class liked when the grey peacekeeping elephants came out of the jungle and were friends and disliked when the black and white elephants were fighting. We looked at the…
P3 just want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who bought sweet treats from the bake sale on Friday. We raised over £100 for an Australian bush fire charity. The pupils in P3 are going to have a discussion about which charity they want to support, whether it be a charity to help…
P3 have been working hard this week learning about Australia. We spoke about the bush fires and the pupils wanted to do something to help. We decided a bake sale would be the best way to raise money. During Maths lessons P3 have been making some delicious treats, weighing the ingredients and following…