Author: Mr Wheatley

Years 5 and 6 are really enjoying the opportunity to learn the basics of Golf with Craig who is a PGA registered coach from Close House.

Year 3 visited Dilston Physic Garden today to end our Science unit learning about plants. We thoroughly enjoyed exploring the garden, completing the scavenger hunt and making our very own ointments in the Herbology House. Thankfully the weather was on our side, so it was a joy to sit and have our lunch in the “sitooterie”, before playing croquet on the meadow alongside a few games of giant chess

Year 5 enjoyed making pictures for our Partner School, Ecole Internationale Differdange, in Luxembourg.

Ecole Internationale Differdange is opening up some of their unsued buildings to provide a School for refugees from Ukraine. Year 5 have created pictures to decorate the walls in these classrooms to provide a positive and inspiring environment for the Ukrainian children.

We made pictures of our hands waving hello. Our hands can be kind, gentle, hard working and a support for others. We also included some inspirational quotes.

We are looking forward to hearing what our friends in Luxembourg think about them!

Thank you so much to all of the children that made egg-cellent entries for our Easter Egg Competition.

Please can we thank Morrisons, Tesco’s and Sainsbury’s for donating Easter Egg prizes.

Below are some of our prize winners.

Reception and Nursery took part in a sponsored ‘Welly Walk’ around Heddon Village to raise money for our outdoor area. We used some of the money we raised to buy a balance see saw! The children absolutely loved trying to balance on it either on their own or with a friend.

Thank you everyone for your continued support!

In Design Technology Year 6 have been investigating complex electrical systems. They have been working in teams to design a security alarm system for the British Museum to protect their priceless Egyptian artefacts. This has involved using series and parallel circuits, push to break and push to make switches, buzzers and bulbs as well as cutting and stripping their own wires and working out how to join the components together. Finally each team had to produce a working mock up of their system.

While this was challenging it was also great fun!

Year 6 enjoyed working together to investigate the everyday lives of the Ancient Egyptians.

They carried out lots of research and produced information posters covering the main aspects of life as an Egyptian in the time of the Pharaohs.

We have been practising a range of food preparation skills in our Design and Technology lessons. Working in pairs, we have practised peeling, grating and cutting. We discussed how the bridge and claw cutting techniques can help us when working in a safe way. We are looking forward to putting our hard work to good use in the summer term, when we will be designing and creating our healthy sandwich!

We are very pleased to let you know that your generous donations at both the Mothers Day and Easter Services mean that £369.78 has been raised to help the people of Ukraine.

Thank you!