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  • 18/12/23

    Christmas Reading Buddies!

    Year 2 had a special visit from their Year 4 reading buddies on Friday. The children enjoyed reading Christmas stories and relaxing in their comfy pyjamas. 
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  • 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!  
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  • 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!
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  • 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.
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  • 22/11/23

    Fire Safety

    Year 4 enjoyed a workshop about fire safety in the home and have learnt the steps to take in an emergency. They even got to test the fire alarm!
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  • 08/11/23

    Ancient Greek Democracy

    Did you know the ancient Greeks invented democracy? Year 4 have learned about how the Greeks would vote and how they could exile a leader they didn’t trust! We created our own vote in the classroom and wrote on shards of pottery, just like the ancient Greeks!
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  • 08/11/23

    Living Things and Their Habitats

    Year 4 visited Shibdon Pond to continue their inquiry into living things and their habitats. They sketched pond plants to see if they could identify and classify the type of plant they had found. 
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  • 07/11/23

    Ancient Greek pottery

    Our art project this half term was to create red figure and black figure pottery like the ancient Greeks! We researched the different pictures and patterns that would usually be seen on Ancient Greek vases and included picture of Greek myths and geometric patterns in our own designs. We sculpted the...
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  • 07/11/23

    Black History Month

    For Black History Month in Year 4 we researched the life and legacy of NASA’s Katherine Johnson. We created timelines to show the key events in her life and what she had to overcome to become such an influential figure today.
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  • 07/11/23

    Ball Skills

    Year 4 have developed their ball skills this half term, practising with tennis balls, basket balls, footballs and rugby balls. They are becoming experts and controlling and moving around with their ball!
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  • 07/11/23

    Identifying and Classifying Creepy Creatures

    Year 4 put their identifying and classifying skills to the test as part of our Spooky Science week. They have been learning about living things and their habitats this half term and have enjoyed identifying some creepy crawling and spooky animals and choosing their own categories to classify them. T...
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  • 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.
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