This week, Key stage 1 visited the fantastic railway museum, Locomotion, in Shildon! Children found out about the famous George Stephenson and the amazing contribution he made to the history of the railway! They enjoyed a workshop and looking at the trains to see how they had...
Today, we celebrated world book day in school and dressed up as our favourite book or story characters, or in comfy clothes, for a day of reading and book related activities! We started the day with an assembly by Mrs Knott to talk about Reading and...
While KS1 are lucky enough to have the chicks with them, we have been weighing and measuring their height every day! The chicks have grown at a very rapid rate and our tallest chick is now 17cm! The heaviest chick is 100g or 21 cubes (Year...
We were so excited when we arrived at school this morning to see another beautiful butterfly had emerged! We took it outside and put it onto the same plant as we had put the first butterfly and to our surprise the first butterfly was still there! We...
Year 1 were very excited today as this afternoon after lunch, Mrs Knott noticed that one of the chrysalises had hatched! We watched the butterfly climb out of his chrysalis and stretch their new wings! We were all amazed! It was beautiful! We then set the butterfly...
Key Stage 1 had a lovely time last week in the sunshine with Mr H! Mr H brought some tents with him and the children enjoyed helping pitch the tents, before enjoying some calming time inside, sheltering from the sun. Mr H built a map of the...
Key Stage 1 have been designing a delicious and tasty fruit salad in their DT lessons. The children tasted a variety of fruits and then decided which of those they would like to include in their own fruit salad. The children used knives and chopping boards to...
This morning, Year 1 went on a local walk to the Methodist church and had a lovely time listening to stories from the Bible. They enjoyed role playing the story of the Good Samaritan and learned about the 12 disciples and how they were asked to...
More children in Key Stage 1 (Mrs Knott and Mrs Ritchie and Mrs Sumner's Class) have been planting beautiful sunflowers today in the memory of Mrs Judge who absolutely adored gardening, nature and the outdoors. If anyone who has not yet donated and would like to...
Key Stage 1 enjoyed a lovely sunny walk along the river this week to look at our local area. We had planned our route in our ICT lessons using digi maps and then we wrote the directions for the route we would take including the street...