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Friday 6 March 2026 Year 3 Week 2: World Book Day Celebration – Our Children Become Reading Rappers! 📚🎤 Our school was filled with creativity and excitement as we celebrated World Book Day this week. The children took part in a fun and imaginative activity where they created their own raps about a favourite book or about the joy of reading.
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Friday 6 March 2026 Week 2: World Book Day Celebration – Our Children Become Reading Rappers! 📚🎤 Our school was filled with creativity and excitement as we celebrated World Book Day this week. The children took part in a fun and imaginative activity where they created their own raps about a favourite book or about the joy of reading.
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Thursday 5 March 2026 Dinosaurs in Reception and World Book Day Week 2 of Dinosaurs in Reception involved classifying dinosaurs according to what they ate, noticing the characteristics of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. Children used their knowledge and creativity to identify and explain why a dinosaur was the ‘Odd One Out'. Reasons included, it runs on 4 legs, it eats meat and it is a reptile.
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Friday 27 February 2026 Year 3 Week 1: From Half Term to Hunter-Gatherers It's been a fantastic first week back after the February half-term break, and classrooms have been buzzing with excitement as everyone settled quickly back into their learning routines.
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Friday 27 February 2026 Dinosaurs in Reception Our topic this half term is Fantastic Beasts! This week, we started with dinosaurs. Children created their own dinosaur riddles, thinking carefully about how to describe a dinosaur without revealing its name. They also explored dinosaur silhouettes, identifying key features from outlines.
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Friday 13 February 2026 Year 3 Week 5, 6: STEM WARS Over the past two weeks, our pupils have taken part in an exciting STEM project inspired by a galaxy far, far away…
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Friday 13 February 2026 Reception Rescued Supertato! What a finish to our STEM in Reception! Model building was in full swing, utilising the skills children learnt last week. With a range of DT joins and 3D shapes, children made jet skis, hot air balloons, underwater bikes, aeroplanes, rockets and much more. There were so many creative additions to help rescue Supertato, from special buttons and handlebars, to ladders, nets, slides and secret gates! Thank you to Zoolab and Professor Brainstorm too for bringing Science to life!
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Friday 6 February 2026 STEM in Reception On Monday, Supertato was captured by Evil Pea and taken to a desert island! Reception are tasked with designing and building a vehicle capable of rescuing Supertato and bringing him home.
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Friday 30 January 2026 Year 3 Week 4: Magnet Magic Today in science, our class became magnet investigators as we tested how strong different magnets are. We carried out an exciting experiment to see how far away a magnet could be and still pick up a paper clip.
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Thursday 29 January 2026 Year 4 Hindu Visitor Year 4 were excited to welcome visitor Kirtida Devi Dasi from ISKON Hindu Temple in Newcastle into their classrooms this week. Kirtida talked to the children about Hindu beliefs, performed some music and helped them to do some philosophical thinking. Children learned lots and were able to ask some thoughtful and searching questions.
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Thursday 29 January 2026 Firefighters and Wellbeing Wednesday in Reception
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Tuesday 20 January 2026 Y4 TinkerCAD This week, Y4 have continued to investigate how to use TinkerCAD efficiently and effectively. Using Hogwarts Castle as the inspiration, they created viaducts, turrets and corridors. They used the duplicate button to recreate their detailed designs to incorporate them into other parts of the castle and explored how to create windows and doors in their designs too.
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Friday 16 January 2026 Year 3 Week 2: Times Tables Go Top of the Charts What a rocking day we had celebrating TT Rockstars Stars Day! The school was buzzing with energy as pupils and staff came dressed as rockstars, pop icons, and musical legends – all in the name of mastering our times tables.
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Friday 16 January 2026 Reception's People Who Help Us
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Thursday 15 January 2026 Year 4 - Philosophy for Children Today, 4W took part in an exciting Philosophy session with Anne de A'Echevarria. Anne is an expert in the Keystone pedagogy Philosophy for Children and works with both children and adults across the North.
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Friday 9 January 2026 Year 3 Week 1: Back from Break We were delighted to welcome students back after the Christmas holidays, refreshed and ready to learn. Classrooms have been full of positive energy, and it has been wonderful to see pupils settling quickly back into routines.
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Monday 5 January 2026 Nursery Christmas Nursery enjoyed celebrating Christmas, with their sing a long, a party and a visit to the cinema.
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Tuesday 16 December 2025 Year 4 Maths - Christmas Symmetry Today, Year 4 applied their understanding of symmetry to create beautiful Christmas tree patterns. They painted one side of the tree, then folded the paper to print the design onto the other side, successfully creating a symmetrical pattern with one line of symmetry.
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Friday 12 December 2025 Year 3 Week 6: Patterns of the Amazon: Our Collaborative Creation This week, pupils across the year group have been working together on a stunning collaborative art piece, inspired by the vibrant patterns and powerful messages of Nixiwaka Yawanawá, the Indigenous Amazonian artist and activist. Using bold colours, natural shapes, and repeating tribal patterns, the children combined their individual sections to create one large artwork celebrating the beauty and spirit of the Amazon. The final piece is a breath taking display of teamwork, creativity, and respect for Indigenous culture.
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Sunday 7 December 2025 Year 4 Hexham Community Grocery Visitors This week Year 4 were fortunate to have a visit from Dale and Neil who help to run Hexham Community Grocery.
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Friday 5 December 2025 Year 3 Week 5: Santa Dash Today our school hosted the annual Santa Dash, and it was nothing short of amazing! The Sele was transformed into a winter wonderland as children, staff, and even a few very enthusiastic parents took part in the big festive run.
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Friday 5 December 2025 The Christmas Story in Reception In amongst their second and last week of Nativity rehearsals, Reception learnt about the traditional Christmas story celebrated by Christians.
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Friday 28 November 2025 Year 3 Week 4: Rhythm of the Ramanyana Our school was buzzing with energy this week as pupils took part in an exciting Ramayana dance workshop led by the talented team from West End in Schools.
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Thursday 27 November 2025 Year 4 Tyne Rivers Trust
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Monday 24 November 2025 Year 4 Maths - Commutativity Commutativity is when two numbers can be added or multiplied and the same answer will be found no matter what order they are in. Year 4 found some creative ways to demonstrate this using arrays. Great work Year 4!
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Friday 21 November 2025 Year 3 Week 3: Let’s Talk Rainforests! This week, our budding geographers took their learning to new heights—quite literally—as they used oracy skills and creative materials to build the layers of the rainforest!
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Friday 21 November 2025 Snail and the Whale in Reception
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Friday 14 November 2025 Week 2: Striking a Pose with Hansel and Gretel! This week, our pupils stepped into the world of Michael Morpurgo's Hansel and Gretel through an exciting drama activity: freeze frames. Working in small groups, children recreated key moments from the story, thinking carefully about body language, facial expression, and the emotions of each character.
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Friday 14 November 2025 Room on the Broom Reception loved sharing their classroom for Stay and Play this week! They
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Thursday 13 November 2025 Anti-bullying Week 2025