What a fantastic harvest festival, last week! Well done to Year 3 for showing KS2 what fabulous singers they are! Watch out Year 6 😀 👏🏻👏🏻
Today, Year 2 learnt all about an orchestra. We discussed the different families of instruments and did an instrument sorting activity in teams. Then we did some sustained listening to “Night Ferry” by Anna Clyne and tried to identify which instruments we could hear. Finally we talked about the mood of the piece and drew sound waves to show our ideas. Well done Year 2, Mrs B was so impressed with your learning!
What a lovely lunch year 1 have had today with our parents and carers!
A massive thank you for coming! 
Today Miss Lauder our teaching student taught her first maths lesson.
We were taught how to count in our 2 times table. We had a dance and
sing with Jack Hartman, recognised missing numbers within a sequence
and then applied our knowledge into a fun practical activity of count
and catch! Super job year 1 
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In Year 5, we have been learning about tints, tones and shades. We completed our first Art topic yesterday and focused on mixing paints to create an array of colours. We then moved onto sketching where we studied horizons, distance and the depth of objects. Year 5 created some brilliant final pieces!
This week, year 4 had a great afternoon exploring weaving techniques as part of our Art topic. We looked at weaving with different materials and discussed the properties of these materials too. We discussed the difference between warp and weft, and which materials would work best in our looms.
During yesterday’s forest school, Year 5 were focusing on making ‘natural sound clips.’ We discussed what a soundscape is and took ourselves over to the nature garden to manipulate and record a range of our own clips. We then used maps of the nature garden to help us when listening to others’ work – our aim was to identify where each group had recorded their clips!
Today year 1 went into the nature garden for our English lesson . We
are currently learning all about our own memories and experiences
linked to the story of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge. Today we
went on on gratitude scavenger hunt, we had to find certain things and
give well structured explanations for why we chose these. What a
brilliant lesson year 1! 
Today in RE, Y5 were fortunate enough to have Mr Richardson join our lesson and host a debate all around whether or not God is present in society. Y5 threw themselves into discussing big concepts, making links with stories from the Bible and justifying their own opinions. Miss Topping, Miss Robson and Mr Richardson were blown away by Y5’s contributions to the lesson – well done!
At the weekend Lottie attended North East Cheer’s season 16 awards night where she received a medal and badge for all her hard work last season. Lottie trains two times a week and always trys her very best, we can’t wait to see her in next year’s competitions.
