Heddon On The Wall St Andrew's C of E Primary School
Where every child matters.
Today The Owls have been practising their maths skills by baking ‘balance cakes’. They had to put an egg on one side of the scales and balance it with flour, sugar, then butter. They then had to crack the egg, mix it altogether and share it into cupcake cases …. delicious! Well done everyone!
We had a great time consolidating our knowledge of adding 1s, 10s and 100s by playing a dice game. The stakes were high as the first to reach 999 on the place value flipchart won 3 house points!
The children in the Reception class love being active!
Here we are climbing, jumping, manoeuvring and balancing along the obstacle course we designed all by ourselves!
Year 6 parents and children don’t miss this great opportunity to visit the High School, meet Mr. McElwee (the Headteacher), look around and find out about what the School can offer.
As part of our Plants topic in Science, Year 2 have been monitoring their broad beans that are growing hydroponically – a few have tiny shoots already!
We’ve been thinking about the best growing conditions for our cress seeds too.
We absolutely loved our first session with Mr Reay! We got the opportunity to perform solo, watch videos of ukulele performances and- amazingly- we can already play 2 songs. We are already excited for next week.
In Art this half term we are learning to use Oil Pastels and have started by experimenting with different techniques. We have learned to blend colours to white, and black and also heavy blending by mixing 2 colours together. Lots of us said that our favourite technique was called ‘Sgraffito’ because we scratched patterns into the colours.
Year 6 have been working hard to build electrical circuits in our science lessons. We have used some familiar components such as bulbs and switches, before drawing our circuits using recognised symbols. Across the half term, we will plan and carry out scientific experiments to answer key questions such as, “How can I make bulbs brighter and buzzers louder?”
We were careful to make sure we worked with the electrical equipment in a safe and sensible manner.
The children in The Owls’ Class have been thinking about how important The Queen was to so many people and all that she did. What an amazing woman! We worked as a team to make a beautiful collage to help us remember her.
Well done to all of The Owls in Reception Class. What a lovely first fortnight we have had in school getting to know each other, playing and learning together!
