On Thursday we came to school in our Christmas jumpers and outfits. Our kitchen team made us a delicious Christmas lunch which we all enjoyed. Thank you to the kitchen team!
Nursery and Reception welcomed parents and family into school for an afternoon of singing and Christmas crafts. We sang some festive favourites and then made Christmas tree decorations and wreaths. It was a lovely afternoon getting into the festive spirit.
The KS1 children delighted the audience with their performance of 'A Miracle in Town'. Everyone played their part beautifully with great acting, narration and singing. We were all very proud of them. A lovely start to the festive season.
This term in design and technology, Year 5 have been learning about bridges and have really enjoyed designing and building a class bridge. They have learnt how to measure and saw wood accurately and use a glue gun to join their wood together. They are very proud of their final bridge...
Last week, children from KS1 and KS2 were treated to a hilarious Christmas-themed theatre visit from the wonderful Dip 'N' Dab. The production followed two decorators who found themselves in the midst of a school Christmas production where their silly and playful nature landed themselves in...
Nursery and Reception were visited today by Animal Stories who told us the story of The Nativity with the addition of a few different animal characters. We met animals such as a tree frog, a giant land snail, a lizard, a hedgehog, a tortoise and an owl.
We had the chance to interact with the anim...
Reception visited Crawcrook library today. We met Kyle, who read us Christmas themed stories and set us the challenge of completing a Christmas jumper trail. We designed and made our own Christmas jumpers and finally we took "Elfie Selfies" and sang some Christmas songs. We all had a great...
Today, Reception class visited St. John's Church in our village. We wanted to find out why the church is an important place in our community and why it is special to lots of people.
We met Rev. Tom and he told us about the church and Christians who worship there. Cath was also there...
This week, Year 3 had a great visit to the Hancock Museum in Newcastle, where we explored exhibits linked to our history topic on Ancient Egypt and our science unit on animals, including humans. In the Egyptian gallery, we saw real mummies, ancient artefacts, and fascinating hieroglyphs, which helpe...
This week, Year 3 have been hard at work, applying their skills in design and technology to create beautiful and tasty seasonal fruit and vegetable tarts. As part of their unit on food design, the children have explored the importance of using fresh ingredients and considered the nutritional benefit...
This week, the nursery children enjoyed taking part in a 'Welly Walk' in our local area. On our walk we explored the noises we could hear when we were walking over the crunchy leaves and the frosty grass. We found lots of mole hills and even some squashy mud to sink in too. The children all...
In Geography this week, Year 5 have used laptops to research about the 10 longest rivers in the world. They worked really hard and found out some great facts.