Reception Balance Bike Club is up and running and the children...and staff...are having a great time.

Selected children in Year 5 attended a morning session run by NUFC Foundation on disability football, taking part in blind and hearing impaired football as a learning experience. 

Linked to our key text ‘The Enormous Turnip’, RAS have absolutely loved exploring weight this week by using balance scales to compare different vegetables. There was wonderful teamwork and curiosity as the children predicted and tested which vegetables would be heavier. 

In literacy we have been writing some diary entries using connective words and the correct punctuation. On Tuesday night Mrs Czerepok took a trip into space and somehow the aliens now have Y1’s literacy work which has captured the imagination of the literacy group (and the rest of the school). The children have made telescopes to go on an adventure and created a huge story map using pictures, before extending their learning and adding words and small phrases using verbs, nouns and adjectives. 

In last week’s newsletter we told you about Year 2’s visit to National Trust property Seaton Delaval Hall, where children made bugs and creepy crawlies out of clay, had a lovely picnic and enjoyed the park in the woods! But we were delighted to hear praise for the group from Visitor Experience Officer Molly Glover, who said after the trip: “As always, the students were such a pleasure to have on site. The gardeners in the allotments wanted me to especially pass on their praise, as the students who stopped by and helped were really sweet and incredibly polite!” Well done Year 2!

During the summer term, children are covering a range of topics in science across all year groups. Year 1 are learning all about plants, identifying and naming common wild and garden plants as well as looking at their structure. Year 2 are learning about living things and how they are best suited for their habitats, as well as simple food chains. Year 3 are looking at the functions of parts of a plant and what plants need to grow and thrive. Year 4 are looking at the classification of living things and how we use classification keys. Years 5 and 6 are focusing more on the human side of science, with Y5 looking into how humans change as they develop into old age, while Y6 are focusing on the circulatory system and the impacts things such as diet, lifestyle and exercise has on the body.

We would like to remind all pupils and families that toys, squishies, trading items, and other personal playthings should not be brought into school. While we understand that children enjoy sharing their favourite items with friends, these objects can become a distraction during lessons and may lead to disagreements, loss, or damage. School cannot take responsibility for personal belongings that are brought from home. Thank you for your support with this. 

A reminder of start times – we love punctual pupils! For Upper School it is 8.40am and for Lower School 8.50am. Please help us start each day bang on time.

Following our move to WISE Academies, the new main email address for parents is central@wiseacademies.co.uk.