Year 5 had a great day when they visited Jarrow Hall to find out about what life was like in Britain during the Anglo Saxon era. First, they visited the farm where they learned about the different animals that were kept on an Anglo Saxon farm. After that, they went into the Anglo Saxon Hall… Continue Reading
Year 1 have been learning about Barak Obama who was the first African-American President of the United States of America. He was the 44th President. They learnt that he was born in Hawaii and lived in Jakarta in Indonesia. When Barak was a child he was called Barry and he loved to play basketball. Barak… Continue Reading
As part of their World War One topic, Year 6 have been finding out about what happened to the Bradford Brothers, who came from County Durham, during World War One. The children enjoyed using a range of primary sources (including the 1891 census, photographs, maps, newspaper cuttings and war reports) to discover about their life… Continue Reading
Last week in year 3 we discovered some Stone Age artefacts in our forest school. We conducted an archaeological dig and recovered several interesting objects. We examined them carefully in order to understand their purpose. Continue Reading
Dear parents, Thank you to all who have signed up to Seesaw – it means you should now have a journal for your child and if you send work in I can add comments and points for learning if necessary. If you haven’t signed up, don’t worry – please see the e-mail sent last… Continue Reading
Year One had a great visit to the Castle keep this week. First they had a very interesting tour of the castle. The children learnt all about the different parts of the castle and listened to some historical stories. They even pretended to be an invading Scottish army! In the afternoon the children… Continue Reading
Year 5 had a great time at Jarrow Hall and found out all about life in Anglo Saxon Britain. They visited the farm and learned about the animals, before sitting around the warming fire and listening to the story of Beowulf. In the afternoon, the children got the chance to try their hand a weaving… Continue Reading
Design and Technology – Year 2 The Great Fire of London – Part 1 In Year 2 today, children started to build a replica of a street from London in the 1666’s. Children used cardboard boxes as the base and then added stones, small pebbles and split-pins to try and reproduce a cobbled street. Children… Continue Reading
The Great Fire of London Year 2 drew and coloured the front cover for their topic book for the Great Fire of London today. Children looked at historical paintings as a reference and then focused on scale, foreground, middleground and background to try and create a sense of depth to their picture. Children tried to… Continue Reading
Last week, twenty children from Year 6 travelled to Belgium as part of their topic work on the World Wars. Led by the ‘Explore4all’ company, the children visited a whole host of places including: both commonwealth and German cemeteries; the Passchendaele Museum and the In Flander’s Field Museum; authentic and original German trenches and Lockangar… Continue Reading
