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  • 23/01/24

    Key Stage 2 Anti-Bullying Ambassadors

    During our School Council elections, one of our candidates stated that they would like to set up a group of Anti-Bullying Ambassadors. It was lovely to see their idea develop when we set up our very own team of Anti-Bullying Ambassadors during Anti-Bullying Week. The children all wrote about why the...
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  • 18/01/24

    Year 5 Freeze Frames

    After listening to the story of ‘Erik and the Sea Dragon’, Year 5 worked in groups to create a freeze-frame so that the rest of the class could guess the scene and how the characters must be feeling from their facial expressions. This supported their understanding of the story and helped...
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  • 16/01/24

    Year 1 Design And Technology

    In Design Technology the children have been learning different techniques to join two pieces of fabric together. In this lesson they experimented with glue, pins and staples. The children will use these techniques over the term to create their own hand puppet.   
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  • 10/01/24

    Investigating how light travels

    Year 6 have been investigating how light travels in science this week. The children were equipped with a length of hosepipe, a torch and some red cellophane and were tasked with making a red light shine out of the hosepipe. After some trial and error, they discovered that light only travels in a str...
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  • 23/12/23

    Upper Key Stage 2 Christmas Party

    On Tuesday afternoon, Year 5 and Year 6 donned their party clothes and had their Christmas party. They did lots of dancing, played some festive party games and had some delicious food. A great time was had by all!  
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  • 23/12/23

    Year 2-6 Theatre Visit

    The visit to Northern Stage to see Cinderella with Y2 to Y6 on Tuesday was a delight! It was a magical show and a great early experience of the theatre for the children. They found it very funny when the characters clambered among them and enjoyed the interactive elements too. The children’s...
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  • 21/12/23

    Open the Book at Christmas

    Last week, children enjoyed listening to the story of the first Christmas told by our ‘Open the Book’ friends. Many of our Year 6 pupils also volunteered to dress up to retell the Nativity Story. Thank you and a very Merry Christmas to our Open The Book Team and we look forward to w...
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  • 20/12/23

    Key Stage 1 Christmas Party

    Today Year 1 and 2 enjoyed their Christmas party. We danced, sang, played games and even had a visit from the Big Man himself!  
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  • 20/12/23

    Key Stage 1 Nativity

    Last week Year 1 and 2 performed ‘It’s A Party’ for their friends and family. Key Stage One children blew the audience away with their fantastic acting and singing. They performed so well and we are incredibly proud of all of them. We hope you all enjoyed the show...
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  • 19/12/23

    Poetry Performance in Year 5

    After considering the author’s use of language in the poem ‘From a Railway Carriage’ by Robert Louis Stevenson, year 5 worked in groups to perform the poem whilst also thinking about feelings, thoughts and actions of characters in the poem.  
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  • 07/12/23

    Reception Visit to Crawcrook Library

    Today, Reception class visited Crawcrook library and joined in with lots of Christmas-themed activities. We met Kyle who works in the library. He read us two fantastic Christmas-themed stories which we all enjoyed. Then we showed our brilliant singing to Kyle by singing some Christmas songs with him...
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  • 06/12/23

    Reception Visit to St John's Church

    This morning, Reception class enjoyed a visit to our village church to find out why it is a special building in our community and to learn more about the first Christmas. Rev. Tom met us at the church and talked to us about why the Bible is a special book, and he read us some of the Christmas story...
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