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  • 25/11/22

    Northern Children’s Book Festival Cressida Cowell Author Visit

    As part of the Northern Children’s Book Festival, Years 4-6 had the opportunity to meet Cressida Cowell, who explained how she takes her initial idea and develops it to make a gripping story! The children now have lots of ideas for their own books and characters…
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  • 18/11/22

    Taking on the role of Historians

    This afternoon we took on the role of Historians by looking at different sources of evidence. We had to decide which pieces of evidence best suited the given statements about religion in Anglo-Saxon times.
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  • 18/11/22

    Children in Need 2022

    We have been answering the following question today relating to Children in Need: What is Children in Need doing to support people in our local area and how can I help? We found lots of projects in the North East which have been funded by Children in Need. We were amazed by the amount of money Ch...
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  • 16/11/22

    NUFC Multi-skills

    This week we have continued to develop our multi-skills with the NUFC coach- focussing on our throwing and catching skills trying to score as many points as possible.
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  • 16/11/22

    Statistics in Year 5: line graphs

    This morning we have been working on interpreting and understanding line graphs. We needed to understand different statements in order to create appropriate line graphs. We also had to use the information in the line graphs to explain whether we agreed or disagreed with different statements.
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  • 15/11/22

    Road Safety

    This week all the children at Blaydon West have been learning about how to be safe near roads and what to do to help them safely cross the road.
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  • 14/11/22

    Reading buddy time

    Year 1 and 5 have enjoyed another session with their reading buddies this afternoon.  
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  • 11/11/22

    Remembrance Day

    This morning we took part in a very special online Remembrance assembly.
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  • 10/11/22

    Monster Mash Up Morning

    Which liquid makes the most effective lava lamp? For our enquiry during Science week, the Key Stage 2 children investigated whether acids or alkalis would create the best lava lamps. They used litmus paper to test what type of liquid they had for their lava lamp and what ph level it was. Then the...
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  • 08/11/22

    Place name evidence from the Anglo-Saxons

    We have begun our new topic of the Anglo-Saxons and last week we investigated why they invaded Britain and how we know where they settled by looking at maps to show burial sites. We also looked for Anglo-Saxon place name evidence on maps of our area. For example, the Anglo- Saxon word burn means...
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  • 07/11/22

    Monster Mash-Up Morning – The Adventures of Meg and Mog

    As part of our Monster Mash-Up morning, children from KS2 visited the Year 6 classroom to take part in an identifying and classifying investigation: How can we sort sweet from savoury using only our sense of smell? The children were read a brand new version of ‘Meg and Mog’ in which t...
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  • 01/11/22

    Fire Safety Assembly

    All of our children have enjoyed learning all about fire safety with some of the fire brigade today. They have learned how to keep themselves safe during bonfire night and how to carefully handle sparklers.
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