2 Blue had a Pirates life!

17th March 2025L Chisholm

We went on our class trip to Hartlepool Marina where we visited the HMS Trincomalee, a Royal Navy vessel which is more than 200 yrs old! We looked at different artefacts that would be used on voyages and explored the ship from the gun deck to the captains quarters.  We looked around the Hartlepool navy museum and found out lots of interesting facts such as: Each sailor had a number on their hammock and when they died their number was up and they were wrapped in their hammock.  They were even sewn into the hammock with the last stitch going through their nose! This was done in case any of the sneaky sailors pretended they were dead to escape the life at sea.  Despite the weather being terrible the children had a great time!

Book in a Box Competition

17th March 2025C Machin

Wow! Wow! Wow! I am blown away with the amazing  ‘Book in a Box’ entries. They are just out of this world. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would have such an amazing response to our challenge! Yet again you have all shown us what incredibly talented people you all are. I have tried to capture them all but apologies if I’ve missed anyone. I’m glad I’m not judging! Winners to be announced soon.

Book Day in 2 Red

17th March 2025L Phillips

Another great Book Day in Hebburn Lakes!

2 Red loved spending the week looking at fractured fairytales and created their own very imaginative versions of Cinderella.

We then ended the week with a whole range of fairytale-themed activities such as a character hunt around the school, a decorated door competition, reading in the Hansel and Gretel Hobbit Hut, performing like fairytale characters in the Magical Forest performance area, challenges of building houses of sticks and bridges of paper, and many, many more fun activities!

2 Blue and the 2025 Book Week

17th March 2025L Chisholm

For our book week this year we have chosen Cinderella as our feature book.  We wrote a fractured fairytale about Cinderella where we changed an important part of the story, she may have lost her purse instead of a glass slipper or she may have gone swimming instead of to the ball.  The children had lots of fun coming up with their own version.  We the invited our parents in to read with us which we thought was amazing.  We ended book week with a day of dressing up and all things fairytale.  We created bridges, castles and beanstalks in the hall, read stories in the witches cottage, performed our own stories in the performance area, went on scavenger hunts to find letters to make words and hunting down 46 different fairytale creature around the school.  We have had an amazing week and can’t wait to see what next years theme is!

Perfect Porridge!

14th March 2025N Sikka

Year One we have been using algorithms in LMTW to follow instructions for making porridge. This also linked well with our twisted tale ‘Goldilocks and the Three Fairies’ as part of book wee in English. Today we enjoyed making and eating porridge with various toppings. Most of the children enjoyed eating it but there were a few who weren’t quite sure about it.

Book Week Parent Reading Workshop

13th March 2025C Machin

As part of book all classes have taken part in parent workshops where the parents came and read a story with their children. It was so lovely, and both the children and the parents had a really nice time.  Here are some pictures from year 3.

Story time with our families!

13th March 2025N Sikka

1 Red welcomed their parent/carers into school today as part of ‘World Book Week’. The children and their families enjoyed listening to and telling stories to each other. It was wonderful to see all the children fully emersed in books and being able to talk to each other about the stories they read or heard. We definitely have some book worms amongst our class.