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Wednesday 11 June 2025 Year 4 - Art - Modigliani Clay Heads Year 4 have been creating clay heads inspired by Modigliani. They observed Modigliani's unique method of extending the features of the face before moulding clay into the shape of a head. They used tools to carve hair and facial features into the clay. Great work Year 4!
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Friday 6 June 2025 Reception Visit Hayes Travel As part of their work on 'Going on an Adventure', Reception thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Hayes Travel! They learnt about different currencies and how to book a holiday using a calendar. They loved looking through brochures talking about countries. Highlights included spotting the Glacier Express in Switzerland, river streets in Venice and of course, Disney Land!
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Friday 23 May 2025 This week in Year 2... In Design and Technology, children designed and created their own traditional tale finger puppets by selecting characters, sketching designs, and using a variety of coloured felt to bring them to life. They then evaluated their puppets by discussing what worked well and what they would improve next time.
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Thursday 22 May 2025 Looking at the local area in Reception This week, Reception focussed on Hexham and the landscape of where they live. They walked to the top of the Sele, noticing what was around them. They talked about all the trees and wildlife they could see and how they couldn't see sky scrapers and lots of cars. Children noticed different types of houses, the stream, the hills, Egger, the Abbey and how many things they could spot closer to school.
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Friday 16 May 2025 Our Wonderful World in Reception Zooming in from Space, Reception focussed on Earth this week. They talked about what makes our world wonderful to them, writing simple sentences beginning with 'I like'. Their favourite things included picnics, friends, trees and animals!
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Thursday 15 May 2025 Summer Term in Year 2 Over the last two weeks, children have been continuing to build their knowledge of traditional tales. They have, very excitedly, planned their own traditional tale including a front cover and blurb. We look forward to sharing our stories with peers and parents.
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Wednesday 14 May 2025 Year 4 - Maths (Length) This week, Year 4 have started learning about length. We began practically, by measuring different parts of the Sele field. After that, we measured our standing long jumps and shot put throws. Once back in the classroom, we began to investigate converting between centimetres and metres. Great work Year 4!
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Thursday 8 May 2025 Year One Balloon Fun! Balloons are always a hit with our Year Ones! This week in PE lessons, we've been playing keepy-uppy with our hands and then a short pool noodle!
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Wednesday 7 May 2025 Year 4 Rivers demonstration This week we have been outside to look at the features of rivers. For this we created a model of a landscape and poured water onto it to show how the water moved and if it made any features we could identify.
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Friday 2 May 2025 Seedlings in Reception Reception enjoyed planting their cucumber, tomato, carrot and pea seedlings out into bigger pots. They raked the planter to remove the weeds, washed pots, filled them with compost and carefully transferred tiny seedlings. They gave everything a good water for the weekend!
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Friday 11 April 2025 Year One Egg Drop What an awesome end to the term for Year One as we had our first egg drop! Inspired by Old Bear's parachute down from the attic in the series by Jane Hissey, Year One designed and made parachutes and vehicles to get an egg down safely from the treehouse!
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Wednesday 9 April 2025 Year 3 - Visit to the Sill Year 3 Visit to The Sill – A Day of Discovery!
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Wednesday 9 April 2025 Year 4 History Year 4 completed their wonderful Roman shields this week. Before taking them home, we learnt about the popular Roman tactic of using the shields collectively to create a ‘tortoise’ shell level of protection. The children really got into the characters of Roman soldiers while attempting the ‘tortoise’ on the Sele.
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Friday 4 April 2025 New Life in Reception After 21 days of patient waiting, the chicks finally hatched on Thursday! After a few hours in the incubator, they moved to their new home under the heat lamp.
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Wednesday 2 April 2025 Year 4 - Roman Shields Year 4 having been researching the Roman invasion of Britain in History. Here are our shields, which have a papier-mâché boss in the centre and will be painted in the traditional Roman fashion. Next week, we plan to investigate Roman army tactics using our shields.
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Wednesday 2 April 2025 Y3 Visit from Discovery Museum Exciting Visit from the Discovery Museum – “Steam to Green”
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Friday 28 March 2025 Year Three rugby stars win the Gold! On a weekend where Newcastle United will proudly show off their recent Carabao Cup victory, our Y3 Tag Rugby team made sure they weren't the only side in the North East with silverware. Taking part in the Sporting Journeys KS2 Tag Rugby festival, the young Sele team went unbeaten and finished as the competitions 'most outstanding team.'
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Friday 28 March 2025 Y2 Geography - Local Area Walk This week, Year 2 took their Geography lesson into the real world with an exciting fieldwork experience in Hexham. Using the mapping skills they’ve been practising in class, the children followed a route they created with Digi maps. They visited local landmarks such as the Hexham Abbey, the Queen’s Hall, the Monument and the Bandstand.
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Thursday 27 March 2025 Year 4 - Design Technology This week, Year 4 have been creating packaging for some Fairtrade brownies. Initially we researched different types of packaging, identifying luxury and budget brands. We then planned and created our packaging ready to contain our brownies which we will bake next week. Great work Year 4!
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Thursday 27 March 2025 Fruit and Vegetables in Reception To support our work on growing, Reception visited the Fruit and Vegetable stall in the Marketplace on Monday and bought different fruit and vegetables! They looked at the seeds inside fruit and .
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Friday 21 March 2025 Year One Footballers Win The Cup! This afternoon, seven of our Year One children took part in a football festival at Queen Elizabeth High School, arranged by Sporting Journeys. The festival was for Year One and Two children from schools across Tynedale, with Corbridge, Beaufront and Broomhaugh joining Sele at the event.
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Thursday 20 March 2025 Flying Kites in Reception This week Reception loved writing about themselves as babies and discussing how they had changed. Great excitement and giggles ensued when they discovered baby photos in their Literacy books. Children wrote short sentences such as, I had a cot, I drank milk.
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Wednesday 19 March 2025 Y2 Roald Dahl Fun Over the last two weeks, children have enjoyed listening and responding to some of Roald Dahl’s classic and ‘hilarious’ stories. Last week, children spent time exploring, planning and creating wonderful potions just like George from George’s Marvellous Medicine. This week, children reported live from Mr and Mrs Twit’s garden after ‘Four sticky boys’ became stuck to the ‘Dead Tree’. Classes created freeze frames to highlight the major event!
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Wednesday 19 March 2025 Year 4 Science Year 4 received an exciting request from Steve Backshall of Deadly 60 fame. He has asked them to join his team of researchers. Firstly, the looked a wide range of animals and their x-rays, then they looked into vertebrates and invertebrates. They are going to produce movies about an animal of their choice.
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Wednesday 19 March 2025 Year 4 Dance This week Year 4 began an exciting new Dance topic- James Bond! We have started with freeze framing and will be building up to a dance in groups over the next few weeks. The children were all and engaged and had lots of fun.
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Wednesday 19 March 2025 School Games Gymnastics This week, eight of our Year Four gymnasts took part in the School Games gymnastics competition in Haltwhistle.
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Friday 14 March 2025 KS2 BEE Netball This morning, 18 of our KS2 children took part in a netball skills festival hosted by Northumberland School Games and Hexham Middle School.
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Wednesday 12 March 2025 Writing in Year One This half term, Year One have been using the Old Bear stories as a stimulus for writing. We've learned lots about the characters and enjoyed listening to their adventures.
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Tuesday 11 March 2025 Year 3 - Maths Outdoors ?? Year 3 Maths in the Garden! ?????
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Tuesday 11 March 2025 Year 3 History Year 3 History – Exploring the Stone Age