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We have been so impressed with our new Reception Class. They started school on Monday looking so smart in their school uniforms. They have settled so well into our class routines and have especially enjoyed our morning wake up shake up sessions. They have stayed for their first school dinner, made new friends with Year 1 who are in our …

*SAFETY UPDATE* Thank you to all visitors to school over the past 3 weeks for your positive response to the new measures we have in place at drop off and pick up times. Collection time in particular has been tricky with lots of queues but you have all been very patient and understanding. As we move into tighter restrictions across …

Well done Year 1 on another fantastic week! We have working on in subtraction skills in maths this week and came up with our own first, next and now number stories. We have been looking at The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister too and acted out a retelling of the story. Great work Year 1!  

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Well done Year 1 on your first full week back! You have all settled in so well and have produced some lovely work. We have been focusing on number work to 20 and have loved reading Commotion in the Ocean, learning about weird and wonderful sea creatures, rhyming words and adjectives.

Our first full week back has been a huge success. I am so proud of how the children are working so hard. They really are a credit to the school. This week in maths we have been doing lots of work based on 1,000’s, 1,00’s, 10’s and 1’s. The children have really enjoyed the practical work this week and have …

I am so proud of our new starters who have been visiting their new school for some Stay and Play sessions. Even though some of them have felt a little bit nervous they have settled so well. It has been lovely to see them making new friends and investigating their new indoor and outdoor classrooms with big smiles on their …

We have a magical new reading corner in our classroom and we all enjoyed trying it out today! Mrs Parlett and Mrs Donnelly can’t wait to read magical stories to the whole class.

We have been enjoying the story of The Colour Monster. Today we have enjoyed making some feeling jar collages and feelings wheels. We then spent some time with our friends talking about our feelings using all of the different colour monsters from the story.  

For today’s mindfulness activity, we enjoyed cloud watching. We went outside, felt the air on our faces with our eyes closed and then watched the clouds. We saw mermaids, turtles, dogs, rabbits, love hearts, bears any many other things.          

We are reading the book of poetry, The Lost Words in class. We learned today that language about nature is disappearing because we don’t speak it as much. We wondered what ‘lost words’ we could find in our school grounds. We used a plant identification app and discovered sycamores, willows, an acer, elders, silver birches, brambles, raspberries, hawthornes, rowans and …

This week’s article is article 42, the right to know your rights. Can you think of the different ways we ensure you know your rights in school? Why do you think it is important to know your rights? A reminder of what Article 42 means: Time to think: Rights Respecting Tasks you can carry out at home: Videos to support …

As we are starting our new school year in year 6, what better number to choose than 6. We were all surprised how a simple number could have so much about it. Take a look at what we have recognised about the number 6 so far this week. We will continue to add to it.

Our Word Of the Week is “preposterous.” It was chosen by Freyja from a book she was reading. Since we have selected this word we have already had an array of synonyms and antonyms as well as two sentences from Florence and Emily. We will continue to refer to this word throughout the week.  

Year 5 were all absolutely amazing this week. Happy smiles all round and, despite some nerves, it was so wonderful to see friends back together, being active, being creative, chatting and settling into their new class and school year. A wonderful start to our new sketchbooks as well so we had to share these pictures! And as you can see… …

We have had a lovely time in Year 2 this week and the children have all settled back in remarkably well and I am so proud of each and every one of them. We had lots of fun outside with the ‘getting to know you beachball’ and the children enjoyed telling me all about themselves. We have also enjoyed lots …

Well done Year 3 for a great first week back. Everyone seemed to settle in well after having such a long time away from school. It was lovely to see how happy they were to meet up with their friends again. All the children have adapted well to the change in routine and have tried so hard with the work …

The Pre-booking arrangements for Mass at both Churches are proceeding well and I am most grateful to those who are assisting the process.  Please be patient getting through at these busy times and remember no one is under any obligation to attend Mass at this time. Please Telephone 0191-5812221 between 5-7pm  on the night before the Mass you wish to …

Year 6 have began their new year developing a good mindset, positive attitudes and are exploring ways to avoid negative feelings which may occur as the result of social media. They recognised that sometimes seeing everyone around them doing amazing things could make them feel like they aren’t as happy or that they are not doing as much. Trying to …

Today we talked about diversity in toys in our news assembly. #ToyLikeMe was established in April 2015 after writer and journalist Rebecca Atkinson noticed the lack of positive disability representation in toys. Rebecca worked in children’s television and had always been interested in the way these industries represent disability and difference. She called on some fellow parents, including play consultant, …