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As seen in our last post, October 17 was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. During the pandemic child poverty has increased by 15% globally, with almost 1.2 million children worldwide living below the poverty line – 4 million of these children live in the UK. Our donations to the East Durham Trust Food Bank are much appreciated …

October 17 was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, so right now is a great time to explore Article 27. During the pandemic child poverty has increased by 15% globally, with almost 1.2 million children worldwide living below the poverty line – 4 million of these children live in the UK. Leading up to this important day in …

Reception have been looking carefully at the changes outside. On letter l day we went outside to collect some leaves. We used these leaves in class to do some transient art work. Back outside we looked more carefully at the trees. We looked at the patterns on the bark and did some tree rubbings we also tried to do some …

We have been so lucky to receive a signed copy of Jeanne Willis’ story, Mayfly day. Although this book is aimed at a younger audience, we have been captivated by the life the Mayfly and how Jeanne uses such rich language and imagery to take us on a journey of life of that little Mayfly. To find out more about …

We have really enjoyed celebrating our successes in year 6. It is nice to see what each child is proud of. They choose their own work to go onto the wall. This week we have had a few new entries to our #WeAreWonderful wall. First we had Reece who was really proud of his non-chronological report about Mayflies. Then we …

It’s Friday! Today in Maths is fun, Year 2 have been practising and consolidating their number bonds. We had lots of fun trying lots of different activities.  

We had great fun today using lots of manipulatives sequencing and then representing our numbers to 20.

We have been learning all about Shabbat this week. We have learnt about how Jewish people celebrate Shabbat and enjoyed tasting some of the special challah bread. We have also wrote our own Shabbat blessings.  

This week’s star reader in Year 2 is Freddie. Well done Freddie, you have tried super hard this week in our guided reading in phonics and have done so much reading at home. Keep up the hard work. we are so proud of you!  

Year 6 have enjoyed a morning revising their short multiplication method by using a dice to roll their own calculations. They found this was a good way of finding out which multiplication facts they are confident with and which ones they need to keep practising.  

Today Year 3 have been drawing feathers with charcoal. We have already used charcoal to give soft and strong lines and using a lighter charcoal or rubber to give light and dark tones. We chose to draw feathers as we have been reading about The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, so thought it would be nice to look …

Saturday 10th October was World Mental Health Day  Use some time this week to focus on your own mental health and wellbeing. Wellbeing should be a priority for adults as well as children especially with the uncertainty of the world at the moment. This week’s activities are designed to promote discussion and reflection around what contributes to positive mental health and …

This week in art we have been learning about pointillism and have looked at the work of Georges Seurat. We had a go at creating our very own fruit pictures using the pointillism technique. I think Seurat himself would be very impressed!

This week has been such a busy week in Reception Class. We have been introduced to the letter sounds c, k, u, b, and f.  We have looked at mixing colours on coffee filters, collecting conkers, making and flying kites, investigating boxes and bubbles and visiting the allotment to see what flowers and vegetables we could find underground. We are …

We had a fun maths lesson today all about 2d shapes. We played bingo, dominoes, made shapes with the peg boards, had a feely bag and lots of other activities too. We had lots of fun whilst consolidating our 2d shapes.  

Year 6 are enjoying learning about Frida Kahlo and have worked well using different mediums to recreate some of her famous self portraits. We will soon be moving onto exploring portraits in more detail and eventually  we should be able to recreate a full portrait of Frida as well as ourselves once we have practised working on our proportions. We …

Connor is our reader of the week this week. You have tried so hard this week with your reading and it has been lovely to hear that you are developing a love of reading and books again. Well done Connor! We are so proud of you.  

Year 6 have been working really hard to make progress on reading plus, reading carefully, using the re-read button to check their answers when carrying out comprehensions, learning new vocabulary in the vocabulary section and have recently started producing short pieces of writing linked to texts they have read. Our word count is unstoppable and the combos keep rising. Well …