This week, Reception have been exploring the wonders of Autumn through the story Pumpkin Soup . The children were captivated by the tale and inspired to dive deeper into all things pumpkin! We’ve had a fantastic time: Weighing pumpkins and comparing their sizes. Scooping out seeds to discover what’s inside. Using our senses to explore the textures and smells. Our creativity was sparked by the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Inspired by her iconic dot patterns, the children decorated their own pumpkins with spots and dots, creating vibrant, eye-catching designs.

Stem Fest 2025 was amazing! Our pupils were engaged and inspired in equal measure.

Year 6 visited the Laing Art gallery in Newcastle city centre. We were invited to look around the gallery and experience the wide variety of paintings and sculpture displayed there. We were also lucky enough to experience the temporary exhibition of the work of Nerys Johnson, a local artist whose work we have been studying.

We carried  out a class Liturgy entitled ‘Loving’ to mark the end of our first RE topic of the year.   Father, creator of all, you ‘ordered the earth’ to bring forth life and crowned it's goodness by creating family life. Teach us the beauty of human love, show us the value of family life and help us to live in peace with everyone. Amen.

Our Year 5 class have been outstanding ambassadors on recent science adventures! From hands-on exploration at STEMFEST to an inspiring journey through space at the Centre for Life, they’ve shown curiosity, enthusiasm, and brilliant teamwork while diving into the wonders of science and technology.

PICCOLO MUSIC   Children in Year 2 have been enjoying participating in music lesson provided by Piccolo. Piccolo Music sessions focus on learning through play, moving to music, singing, inventing actions and sounds and experimenting with musical instruments. Year 2 children have been focusing on using their own bodies to create music by making a repeating pattern and rhythm.

Year 2 children learnt the importance of being a First Aid responder.  The skills they learnt were: ·        To phone 999 during and emergency. ·        To put the person into recovery position. ·        To check for any injuries. ·        To put a simple plaster on. ·        To put on a bandage. ·        To use a cold compress. ·        To keep the person calm. The children did fantastically, and all made great first aiders!

This week in Nursery we have been feeling the Autumnal vibes! We have been busy with lots of learning all about pumpkins. We have been investigating real pumpkins using our five senses, baking pumpkin mud pies outdoors, creating pumpkin art, and recognising numbers. We fully immersed ourselves in our focus story of this week- Pumpkin Soup- by cooking and tasting our very own pumpkin soup, it was delicious!

As part of our Catholic Social teaching, we focused on taking action to nurture God's creatures by raising awareness about animal protection.  To mark World Animal Day, we read the story Somebody Swallowed Stanley , which helped us understand the dangers plastic pollution poses to sea creatures like turtles. The children shared thoughtful ideas about how we can help, such as always putting litter in the bin and recycling our rubbish to keep our oceans clean. We also explored the poem Dreamer by Brian Moses, which inspired us to think about wild animals and how we can protect them. The children created beautiful drawings of wild animals and discussed ways to care for all creatures in our world.

Reception had a wonderful time exploring Scotswood Nature Garden as part of our learning around the story Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. The children went on an exciting Stick Man hunt around the garden, discovering all sorts of natural treasures along the way. Using sticks and other natural materials, the children created their very own Stick Man characters, showing lots of creativity and imagination. We also played a fun Stick Man game in the forest, which helped us bring the story to life and enjoy the great outdoors.

This week in Nursery we have been busy learning about Autumn. We have had lots of fun doing activities based around our focus story, Stick Man. We went on a stick hunt and created our own stick men, made 2D shapes out of sticks, and we even used our investigation skills to use a range of tools to free stickman from being frozen! In RE we have been discussing our families and enjoyed observing all of our lovely families on our family tree display!

This week Miss Manning, Mrs Barber-Knight and our new panel of school councilors visited Scotswood Nature Garden for our welcome meeting. We explored the area, used map skills, made clay models and wood cookies, climbed trees and learned lots of nature facts! We talked about how we could use the skills we learned to welcome new people into our school.