20/12/23
A magical afternoon with a magician!
The whole school had a fun filled afternoon with Flash the magician!
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- 18/12/23
Party time for Year 5 and 6!
Year 5 and 6 had a great time dancing the afternoon away and they enjoyed a delicious buffet afterwards! Thank you for all of the food contributions!Read Full Story - 15/12/23
KS2 Polar Express
KS2 have had a festive afternoon watching The Polar Express while eating biscuits and drinking hot chocolate! To make sure they were comfy they all came to school in their Pjs!Read Full Story - 15/12/23
Workshop with the European Space Agency!
This morning, alongside 3000 other primary school pupils, Year 5 took part in an online workshop with Sara Pastor who works with for the European Space Agency. There was the opportunity to ask her some questions about the Habitation pods that they are designing to send people to the Moon in. This wa...Read Full Story - 15/12/23
When Sasha got swept up the chimney!
KS2 have worked extremely hard to present our Christmas play this year! Thank you to all of the adults who came to watch it this week. A huge well done to all the classes, especially Year 6 who led the show with all of the speaking parts!Read Full Story - 27/11/23
Author Vashti Hardy visits Blaydon West!
KS2 were lucky enough to have a visit from the celebrated children’s author Vashti Hardy as part of the Northern Children’s Book Festival.Read Full Story - 24/11/23
Anglo-Saxon workshop with the Durham Oriental Museum
This afternoon Year 5 took part in an online workshop all about the Anglo – Saxons with the Durham Oriental Museum. They had a great afternoon taking on the role of archeologists by looking at a range of different artefacts and deciding what they thought they were and used for.Read Full Story - 20/11/23
Visit from The Flood Risk Management team
This afternoon Year 5 had a visit from a member of The Flood Risk management team. We had fun playing BINGO to learn about animals found in and around the River Tyne. We then found out about flooding and what causes it as well as who is effected by flooding.Read Full Story - 17/11/23
Gymnastics with Grassroots
This week a Year 5 learnt how to do a centipede balance- they even managed it with up to 4 people!Read Full Story - 10/11/23
Year 5 Gymnastics
This week Year 5 began gymnastics with the Grassroots coach. They began working on some basics skills including forward rolls, teddy bear rolls and pencil rolls. They then moved onto some more complicated partner balances which included the ‘bunk bed’ and the ‘frog”Read Full Story - 10/11/23
Why did the Anglo-Saxons invade England and how do we know where they settled?
Year 5 have begun their new history topic of The Anglo- Saxons. They have looked into reasons why The Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain and sorted these into push and pull factors. They then looked at a map which showed them where Anglo-Saxon cemeteries have been located in East Anglia and used it to...Read Full Story - 07/11/23
Spooky STEM Witches Potions
As part of our Monster Mash Up morning, KS2 investigated how different ingredients changed the witches potions as they observed what happened in their different recipes.Read Full Story