Choir children had a fantastic morning at The Glasshouse in Gateshead where we participated in The Big Sing. We sang and danced together with children from schools all over the north east. We all had a great time!
Our children enjoyed an inspirational sports visit from Ben Holden, who led each class in an ‘Around the World in Sporty Ways’ workshop. Children got to experience sports such as, Gaelic Football, American Football and Kabaddi. We also enjoyed an inspirational assembly where Ben shared important messages about resilience.
We are all unique and we celebrated this by wearing something that makes us feel good.
To help us celebrate World Music Day, we invited Fanuel into our school. In assembly, we all enjoyed singing songs, playing games and dancing. Year 6 then enjoyed taking part in a drumming workshop.
Our annual Sponsor Event took place a couple of weeks ago and we were delighted to welcome Paralympian Anna Nicholson into our school to guide our children through their sponsored circuit.
Anna Nicholson reached her first Paralympic podium at Paris 2024 with a brilliant bronze medal in the F35 shot put. There are few people who can say they have competed for Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the international stage, graduated with a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, and enjoy a career in the car production industry by the age of 25, but that’s exactly what Anna Nicholson has achieved.
We all had an amazing, albeit very tiring, afternoon and were fascinated to learn more about Anna’s life and career in the inspirational assembly that followed.
Thank you to all of our parents and carers for your very generous sponsors and to all of our wonderful children who worked so hard throughout the afternoon.
On Wednesday 6th May, Year 5 were visited by Ben (Zeus) from Past Productions and we learned all about the Greeks! We found out about some of the differences between Athens and Sparta and how life for men and women was different. We learned about some Greek myths and then prepared and performed a play to tell the story which was great fun! We discovered that the Olympics were called the Athenian Games originally and then we took part in our own mini Olympic games! After lunch, we wrote persuasive letters in role as Greek characters linked to the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. We then used all of the work that we had done to design and make our own Greek plate that showed a traditional Greek theme – the end results were fantastic! Finally, we ended the day with a quiz to show how much we had learned, which was loads!
In Year 5, our DT topic for the first summer half term was to research and make a healthy Bolognese. We found out about the ingredients, from farm to fork and then we looked at how we could alter a traditional recipe to make it healthier. We prepared and added lots of vegetables including onions, peppers, courgettes, carrots, celery and mushrooms into the sauce and mixed it with tomato puree, garlic, chopped tomatoes and passata. Once it had cooked down, we blended it with a hand blender to make the sauce nice and smooth. After pan frying some lean minced beef, we added the sauce and let it simmer for ½ hour. We then boiled some penne pasta and mixed it all together. The final addition was a sprinkling of parmesan (for those who wanted it) before the big taste test. The Everyone loved it and even came back for seconds!
As part of comic relief we encouraged the children to come to school with crazy hair!
