Nursery packed their suitcases and headed to St Cuthbert’s Airport. We had fun playing the different roles of cabin crew, pilot, airport security and the passengers. After we checked in with our passports and made our way through security it was time to board ‘St Cuthbert’s Airline’ and head of on our jolly holidays. This week in Nursery we booked our summer holidays at the St Cuthbert’s Travel Agents. We organised our suitcase together to make sure we packed everything we would need. We used the imagination playground outside to build an amazing aeroplane that took us away on our holiday. In Nursery, we have been exploring the season of Summer. We picked flowers and leaves to make suncatchers, painted beautiful flowers and made magical potions using fruit and flowers. Nursery have had such a busy week! On Tuesday we explored Kenton on our walk looking for people who help us. On Wednesday we came to Nursery dressed as a person who helps us in the community. To finish our fabulous week, we celebrated a full cube jar by having a disco with balloons and bubbles. Nursery continued learning about ‘People Who Help Us’. This week we successfully completed our first firefighting mission. We put on our special uniform, drove the fire engine really fast with the siren blaring. We were so brave when we put the fire out in the house and rescued the cat. It was so much fun! This week Nursery have learned about ‘People Who Help Us’. We looked at the different types of jobs that people do to help us. We took part in Firefighter training climbing a ladder, jumping through a ring of fire, put out A fire and even rescued a cat from a tree. We had so much fun! We had a fantastic time celebrating VE Day. We all came to Nursery dressed in red, white and blue. We made flags and observed the one-minute silence. This week we also dressed as Doctors and Nurses and took our teddies to the Teddy Bears’ Hospital we had fun wrapping them in bandages.

Our amazing Eco-Warriors attended the Climate Friendly Conference at the Civic Centre, where they proudly collected our Climate Friendly School Award! They took part in inspiring talks, important climate discussions, STEM activities, and even presented our eco-actions to a full conference hall. A proud moment for our school and our planet!

Year 4 loved their trip to the Discovery Musuem this week! In English, Year 4 have started a new narrative 'A Medal For Leroy' and have started to write a character description for Lieutenant Walter Tull. Year 4 also enjoyed their previous RHE session where we explored the importance of first aid and acted out different scenarios! Year 4 are enjoying their full cube afternoon! They also enjoyed RHE this week, where we looked at first aid and role-played different scenarios!  Last Friday, Year 4 celebrated their First Holy Communion by having a party together in the hall - they had a great time! It's been lovely to see the children supporting one another!  Year 4 loved coming into school in red, white and blue yesterday to celebrate VE Day! The children also enjoyed learning about the history of VE day and completing a range of activities!  Year 4 loved their first session of rugby with Andrew from the Falcons!

Year 5 and Year 1 enjoyed a 'Bible Buddy' session. We will be working together on this project to engage with a variety of Bible stories. We read a story together and then we wrote prayers together. It was lovely to see our Year 5 and Year 1 friends working so well as a team.  Year 5 were brilliant in today's class assembly, sharing our Year 5 journey and how important it is to work as a team! Dr Hickey visited Y5 to give them some engineering advice for the up-and-coming Beamish competition. He gave us important insights into his job and how a balanced crane could be constructed. We loved it! Thank you, Dr Hickey. Y5 enjoyed orienteering this week. They had specific check points to achieve around the school grounds, whilst using a map. Great cross-curricular maths activity and learning to work as a team! Year 5 loved their visit from Robert, who told them all about the Beamish Museum Crane contest they are taking part in across the Summer. Year 5 loved coming into school in red, white and blue to celebrate VE day. They also enjoyed learning and exploring OS map symbols and their meanings. Year 5 have loved been directors this week, experimenting with different video angles in our computing session this week.

Year 2 loved their Local History trip to the Victoria Tunnel, which was followed by a walk to the Quayside to visit the sites and memorials of the Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead Year 2 have had a great time exploring how we might sort and organise data in Computing. Year 2 have been inspired by nature to draw still life using a range of media, including watercolours, charcoals and oil pastels Some pictures of Year 2 enjoying the sun at playtime this week. In Science, Year 2 have planted a variety of seeds to see how plants grow in different conditions. We can't wait to see how they develop! Year 2 have created artwork inspired by local artist Sarah Hill. We have learned about the coal mining heritage of Kenton, which we've reflected in our art

Year 1 have been practicing their musical skills this week, learning how to hold the beaters for the xylophones correctly and reading musical notation to play the tricky rhythms in 'Crocodile Rock'! They had to make sure they were all playing the right notes in time with the music. Fantastic! Year 1 have been finding out about Pentecost, acting out the events and thinking about how Jesus' disciples felt before and after they were filled with the Holy Spirit! We created some beautiful doves and wrote down words which reminded us how the disciples felt. Every time we come into our classroom, we see the doves and remember how the Holy Spirit fills us with confidence! Year 1 have been learning about the features of our local coastline and looking carefully at King Edward's Bay. We made maps on our tables using different resources,  then viewed them from above to help us to make our own aerial view maps! 🙂 Year 1 worked so hard on making their fantastic, stable lighthouse models!  Year 1 have been amazing designers this week, creating prototypes for a stable lighthouse model! We tested our prototypes and used them to plan how we make the real models next week. Fantastic problem solving! ear 1 really enjoyed celebrating VE day with their friends! We took part in some reflective collective worship and thought about what it feels like to work as part of a team! Well done! Year 1 had a brilliant day, climbing up the stairs inside St Mary's lighthouse, finding out all about the life of a lighthouse keeper, discovering weird and wonderful creatures in the rockpools and creating some fabulous sand art! Well done, everyone!

In Maths, Year 3 made right angle finders then worked outside to find different objects measuring 90 degrees. Just a snapshot of a fantastic visit to Scotswood Garden. The children loved doing the Hape Zome activity using hammers and flowers to make a lovely picture. They planted sunflowers and explored the garden and did den building! Year 3 have been busy in Maths looking at different types of lines and creating a picture using them. Year 3 have been making friendship pledges and have enjoyed exploring how to be a good friend. Year 3 have been working hard whilst investigating the force friction in Science. Year 3 enjoyed a fantastic day at Durham Oriental Museum. They looked at real Egyptian artefacts and got to meet a mummy! Year 3 enjoyed a rugby session lead by Andrew from The Falcons. They practised a range of passing and catching skills.

Reception love joining in with different sports activities.  We have fun playing football in the Butterfly Garden and have  enjoyed practising different events on the field ready for Sports Day next week. Reception have enjoyed learning new facts about minibeasts.  We've painted our favourite minibeasts and have planted some flowers in the Butterfly Garden to attract more minibeasts. We went on a minibeast hunt in the Butterfly Garden and Forest School. We found lots of creepy crawlies before having a story about a spider who liked to play football! Reception have enjoyed being the lifeguards whilst playing with our small world rescue centre.  We also have looked at photos of 'People who help us' and their vehicles from the past and now.  We sorted them into two groups of 'now' and 'then'. Reception have loved telling stories on our fire engine and in our police station in the Butterfly Garden.  On Friday, we enjoyed coming to school dressed as  a person who helps others in their job.  We looked fantastic.  Can you guess who we are? Reception enjoyed going for a walk around Kenton to look at places where 'people who help us work'. We saw postal workers, bus drivers, taxi drivers, paramedics, shop keepers & council workers cutting down trees. On Wednesday, we brought in our own teddies & pretended they had hurt themselves. We took on the role of the doctor and treated our teddy patients to make them feel better. Reception had great fun in their first 'Rugby Minis' coaching session. They played 'Stuck in the Mud', 'What's the Time Mr Wolf', threw the rugby ball and learnt how to place it on a spot to score a try.

The children in Year 5 have been working on an Engineering project called 'Crank It Up' in conjunction with Beamish Museum since Easter. Pupils from our school have designed, built and tested a working crane model and are taking it to the Museum soon. To celebrate their success, Beamish Museum is running a whole weekend of engineering and science activities as well as putting the pupils’ work on display. This is on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th July . You’ll be able to see the cranes on display in the 1950s Welfare Hall. The Museum are offering us discounted entry into the museum; tickets will be £7.50 per head for everyone over 5. Under 5s are free. These are only valid for one day on the weekend specified and are not Beamish Unlimited Passes. To access this offer, please visit the website: https://beamish.digitickets.co.uk/category/41303 If you already have Beamish Unlimited Passes then these are valid for this event. Good luck Year 5!

Reception children enjoyed playing games and completing activities with their parents in the Maths workshop.  We loved it when our parents came in to the Reception class and played Phonic games with us.

We had a fantastic well-being workshop for the children and parents in Year 3, thinking about how a growth mindset can set us up for success at school and also when coping with difficult situations in our personal lives. We discovered the power of 'yet' and how, with a growth mindset, we can achieve fantastic things! Well done, everyone and thank you to the parents and carers for your support.

Well done to all children and families. Keep up the great work! We have achieved a FFT national school attendance award for the top 25% of FFT primary schools!