Happy St George's Day! Love from Reception

We have had such a fantastic day celebrating St George's Day! Everyone looked super dressed in red and white. We walked into class this morning to find dragon footprints leading to our pirate cave and the treasure chest! It was a bit scary, but the we heard the story about brave St George and how he killed the last dragon (phew!).

We thought the story was so good that many of us chose to re-tell it in different ways and have dragons in our role play.

One child chose to paint a flag with George's red cross on.

Adam drew a picture of a dragon breathing fire and wrote the word dragon by sounding it out himself!

Mia made the story characters using play dough- the green dragon, the king (who later got a crown made), red George and the princess with yellow hair.

Some children chose to make Happy St George's day cards

We all made shields with the lovely Miss Carpenter and decorated them in glitter. We can't wait for them to be dry tomorrow so we can play with them!

We all loved eating our lunch outside accompanied by patriotic music!

And finally, we loved playing outside this afternoon. Children helped draw and colour in a shield for George and a dragon. Shay said this was a good dragon and that dragons can actually be quite helpful, you know! They can light bonfires and cook your burgers so they are ready straight away without you having to wait!! (What's not to love?!)

Polling Day - Thursday 7th May 2015

Our school will be used as a polling station on Thursday 7th May 2015. We will however, as in previous year, remain open as usual to all children.

Outdoor Learning

Because the weather has been so lovely Year 5 have took their learning outside this week. 

On Tuesday, we went outside to practice our long multiplication method. We thought of some sums we wanted to work out and then using chalk we worked it out on the yard. This was fun, active learning. It was nice to get outside to do our learning.

 We even had two visitors from Year 1 showing off their fantastic times table skills. Frazer and Jack could count in 5's all the way to 100! Fantastic!

Helping Hands

Year 5 have had the responsibility of helping out with Year 1 over this year. We have been helping them to set up for ICT lessons and Mathletics. Over the Spring term we also helped out in Year 1 when the children were completing their Easter cards.

Recently Year 1 have been sharing their favourite books with the children in Year 5.  The children had a great afternoon sharing their favourite parts of the story and having Year 5 read their favourite books to them.

Year 5 Spelling Bee!

Some of the children in Year 5 attended the Gateshead Schools Spelling Bee at the Dryden Centre. We were competing against lots of other schools in Gateshead to win the 2015 Spelling Bee trophy. Unfortunately we didn't win, but we worked so hard together as a team to complete the challenges we were set. We really had a great morning participating in the different spelling activities. 
Miss Henry is super proud of all who attended and we were given a special message from Mrs Howe too, saying how fabulous we were and how proud she was.