Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

On Tuesday this week it was International Men’s Day, this celebrates men's achievements and contributions while addressing critical issues like male health, gender-based violence, and the importance of positive male role models.

7A discussed different male celebrities and the male role models…

Celebrating International Men’s Day in 7P.

So on Tuesday, 7P celebrated International Men’s Day by looking at a PowerPoint about the special men in their lives and talking about how important they are. 

The PowerPoint named men like dads, stepdads, uncles, male cousins, grandads,…

On Monday we started off our week the way we always do, with our weekend news. It’s always lovely to hear about what our learners have got up to at the weekend. In the afternoon we went to ASDA, where we did our shopping before having a bit to eat in the café.

We had our DofE carousel on…

Beech class have had a fabulous week exploring Old McDonald’s Farm this week!

During our continuous provision we’ve explored tractors in the sand, tractor tracks with paint, giving the animals a bubble bath. We’ve also done lots of animal puzzles, reading and practiced our pencil control. We…

This week the children have worked really hard. We have celebrated international mens days! We have talked about positive male role models in school and positive male role models in our life at home. We had an open class discussion about who is special to us and why. 
In PE we have worked on…

Yesterday 11A visited Queens Park, each group was given a map of the park with the markers to find. We looked at the map and used locations around us to help us navigate where in the park we were, we used things like the pond, buildings and structures to help us understand where we were and where…

Before we can go and take part in our expedition at Bendrigg, we've had to complete some training for our Duke of Edinburgh award.

Our first visitor in the morning was Mrs Fisher, who talked about personal hygiene and we discussed some of the things that we would need to take with us on our…

Chestnut class have had another busy week!

We started the week with Remembrance Day. We explored poppies and painted our own poppy pictures using potatoes. 

On Wednesday we made friendship bracelets! We threaded coloured pasta onto string to match a pattern. We've practiced our turn taking…

9P had a lot of essential learning experiences this week, which included: 

- learning about Remembrance Day and showing our respect by participating in a one-minute silence as a whole school 

- learning about Friendship week and participating in odd socks day as part of this essential…

9P had a fantastic week this week! 
 

We did our usual community visits of attending the library and going swimming. 
We celebrated bonfire night by creating our own bonfire crafts. 
We had two lovely visitors who read with us for their Duke of Edinburgh experience. 
 

We had such a good…

Welcome back after our half term break, we worked so hard in Autumn 1 that we all earned a little time off, but now we are back and ready for Autumn 2!

Our main theme ‘This is me’ is continuing right through for this half term and we will build on our independence skills with dressing and…

This week we started off in quite a different way. We completed our usual morning routine, and then headed outside to listen to Mrs Chaloner play the last post. What a beautiful way to honour those that have served for our country and those who are still in service.  

Miss Hendy spoke with…