2 Blue loved careers day!

27th June 2025L Chisholm

We took part in the whole school careers day.  Lots of businesses and people with interesting careers came and joined us for the day.  We have been learning about civil engineers and their role in building bridges, I’m sure you’ll agree our bridges were much better than any you see on your travels! We looked at the world of advertising through the use of media videos and green screen.  The children enjoyed watching Mrs Chisholm discover her new career, she is obviously wasted as a Teacher and needs to be on the big screen!! We also looked at Halfords and their cars and what they do everyday.  We found today very interesting and we now have lots of fun ideas and goals for our future – watch this space!

Career’s Day in Reception!

26th June 2025K Richardson

For careers day Reception had a visit from a children’s nurse and an occupational therapist. They talked to the children about their day to day jobs and showed them what they did with children and their families. The children asked them some questions and then we chatted about who was inspired to think about a career similar to theirs when they grow up.

 

Glorious Gibside!

24th June 2025C Machin

What a day!
As part of our ‘Out and About’ theme, that we start next week, we headed to Gibside, National Trust.  We had a day of den building, orienteering, walking through the forest and up too many hills to count!!  We even had enough energy to play at ,Strawberry Castle play area.  We loved every second but the den building was a firm favourite. We can’t wait to go back again.

7 Blue visit to Jarrow Hall

24th June 2025N Fada

7 Blue had an amazing time at Jarrow Hall this week.  We took part in 2 workshops to learn all about Anglo Saxon life. We really enjoyed learning about the animals on the farm and spinning wool to make textiles but our favourite part of the day was listening to the story of ‘Beowulf’ sitting around the fire in the Anglo Saxon great Hall.  We ended the day having fun in the park.

 

Year 4 visit to Jarrow Hall

19th June 2025Leah Hockings

This week year 4 were lucky enough to visit Jarrow Hall, which links in with our new theme “Saxon King”.

We completed 3 exciting workshops, learning lots of different things about Anglo Saxon life and what this would have been like. We had a go at making our own wool to create fabric for clothing and had a competition on which group could spin the longest piece.

It was then time to carry out an immersive drama experience, re-enacting what crime and punishment was like during Anglo Saxon times. The children loved taking on their roles as villagers, judges and witness’… They enjoyed handing out the sentences even more!

Finally, after lunch we enjoyed a walk through the farm and Anglo Saxon replica village and were lucky enough to enjoy the story of “Beowulf” by a roaring fire inside a great Saxon hall. We even had time to enjoy the sunshine in the park on site!

We were very impressed with the behaviour and maturity of our year 4 children and the amazing questions they asked throughout the day.

 

 

Author Stuart Reid

18th June 2025C Machin

Today we were lucky enough to have a truly memorable visit from the author Stuart Reid. He read from his books and we helped him to reenact his favourite ( but disgusting !) parts. I think we have all been inspired to follow our passions and write about what makes us happy and makes us laugh!

Magnificent map readers!

16th June 2025L Chisholm

Some of year 2 were lucky enough to be invited to take part in an orienteering session at Marine Park.  They received a map and had to look for different numbered stations around the park.  Each of these stations had a letter, number and a picture.  The children had to collect the data from each station to fill in their quiz sheet at the end.  The children were all amazing and we have had a brilliant afternoon.