As part of an art project, year 6 studied British milliners and some weird and wonderful hat designs as well as more practical ones. Pupils then thought of some designs they might like to see of a hat and finally designed prototypes of their own. It was fun to be explorative and creative with unique ideas.
On Tuesday 8th November, Year 5 visited Durham Cathedral. It was a perfect visit for us as it reinforced lots of our learning: Northern Saints in RE; Vikings in History and Architecture in Art.
We had a drama session to look at the tales of Saint Cuthbert and we acted out some of the stories associated with him. Through these stories, we explored what they told us about him as a person.
After that, we had a session which focused on Christians and how they express their beliefs. We found out that Durham Cathedral is still a working church but it has also been a hospital and even a prison!
During our visit we saw some amazing stained glass windows, lots of crosses and we saw the actual resting place of Saint Cuthbert!
We received some lovely feedback from the Education Team at Durham Cathedral…
Hi Mrs Rennie,
 We wanted to thank you for the lovely day we have spent with your Year 5 classes. Not only was their behaviour impeccable, we were incredibly impressed by their engagement and the intelligent questions they asked throughout the visit.
 Thank you for a brilliant day!
 We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
 Best wishes,
 Alys
One of our lunchtime club is yra5/6 games club. The children always have a great time.
On Friday, our boy’s football team competed in the Bart Rippon Cup at Temple Park. There were 15 teams competing in total across the day, so the boys had lots of playing time. Overall we finished 4th place in our group matches, winning one game 4-0, drawing 0-0, and losing two matches 1-0. The games were very close and it is exciting to see our players continue to improve; they represented our school extremely well. Man of the Match was our Goalkeeper, Danial, for the fantastic saves he made throughout the day. Well done everyone!
Everyone enjoyed a spook-tacular disco on Wednesday 2nd November 2022. Costumes were amazing!
Science Council Club have looked at seasonal changes focusing on Autumn and what we are noticing happening in our surroundings. They went on an autumnal hunt and collected some items from the school grounds and are looking for more signs of Autumn when outside school too.
As always they bring enthusiasm to club and lots of smiles.
We celebrated Harvest Festival on Friday 21st October in our school hall. Lots of parents and carers came to support their children. All of the food donations were sent to a local food bank. thank you for your continued support.
This week, our art club began with some fun warm-up drawing exercises. Children enjoyed drawing with continuous line; looking at the subject only and not the paper; drawing with their non-dominant hand; and drawing in specks and shadows.
We then moved on to creating our Autumn Textile design. Children began by arranging their leaf compositions, ensuring the leaves were placed face down with the veins facing away from the fabric. They then used a wax resist technique by rubbing the shapes of leaves through the fabric with a wax crayon and then applied fabric paint to the rubbings. Our results are fantastic!
In multi-cultural, week we were so lucky to find out more about African drumming when Fanuel, from Zimbabwe, came to visit us. We found out that African drums are called djembe drums and are made out of wood and goat skin. We learned that in Africa, there are many rhythms played on the drums for all different occasions and some children tried to play some of these rhythms. Fanuel also taught us some African songs and dances. We all had a fantastic time!
Year 5 had a fantastic time working with clay to sculpt their Viking Warrior Heads. We used lots of different tools to create facial features and different textures in the clay. We love the results!
