Riverside Primary Academy | Key Stage One

Key Stage One

Key Stage 1 enjoy Outdoor Learning!

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 make fruit salad!

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...

Sports Week – Circus Skills!

During sport week, we were very lucky to have a ringmaster from the circus come into school to teach us some skills. Early Years children watched a fantastic performance and other children in the school got to experience juggling, plate spinning and more. It was...

Sport Week – Cricket sessions

During sports week, we also had some cricket sessions for KS1 and UKS2 classes. These were delivered by a local cricket club at Swalwell. The children enjoyed practising their skills.  ...

Year 1 visit the Methodist Church

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...

Sunflower Pledge!

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 River walk

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...

Pledge a Sunflower

Thank you to all those who have kindly donated and pledged a sunflower in memory of our wonderful Mrs Judge. The children have thoroughly enjoyed planting their seeds and are looking forward to caring for them over the coming weeks. For those who did not...

Measurement in Year 1

Year 1 in Mrs Knott's class have been learning about measurement in their Math lessons. Today we began to investigate and measure the capacity of different containers using non-standard units of measure. Today we worked in teams and used sand as our non standard unit, to see the...