Key Stage 2

Congratulations to some of our Y6 children who have progressed to the second round of the Young Mathematicians’ Awards.

NRICH has worked with Explore Learning since 2010 to hold the Young Mathematicians’ Award.  Each year, teams of four primary children from schools across the UK take part in local events then five teams are chosen to come to NRICH headquarters in Cambridge for the final.

At each stage of the competition, teams work on an NRICH task and are judged on two things: how well they use their problem-solving skills to think like mathematicians and how well they work as a team.

The tasks are particularly challenging and are likely to seem quite different to the sorts of maths activities you might do at school in lessons.

Well done- we look forward to hearing of their success!

Y4 pupils had a fantastic day at Bede’s World to complement their history topic. They enjoyed dressing up as monks and Anglo Saxons and even made flour from home grown materials.

Miss Anderson’s class have enjoyed helping Mrs Richardson work in our new outside learning area.

The learning area is an ongoing project to develop the quadrangle in the centre of our building. Along with an open air stage and outdoor classroom the children have been helping to plant in the sensory garden and wildlife areas.

This week our Y6 pupils have been enjoying outdoor education week. With some of our children away to Thurston Outdoor Education Centre in the Lake District the rest of the year group have had great fun orienteering, wall climbing, problem solving, bowling and much much more. Click here to see more. 

House captains from KS2 attended a service of Remembrance at the West Park on Wednesday.

In school, children observed a silence in memory of all those who have served and are still serving our country. We also held special assemblies.

Year 6 pupils had their geography topic brought to life today when Freelance Expedition Leader Steve Berry came and talked to them about his many years climbing some of the largest mountains in the world and his experiences.

The children learnt about how to survive in many different extreme environments and how skilled a climber you must be to succeed in these treks.

The pupils were captivated listening to his stories and were all bursting with questions to ask. A once in a lifetime opportunity to talk to a real life adventurer. Steve, who is from South Shields, has climbed many of the great mountains and he has conquered Mount Everest. This year alone he has been on many trips around the world and he has led exhibitions to climb Kilimanjaro four times.

As Year 6 approach their outdoor education topic next week we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to invite Steve to talk to our children.

We wish him luck and best wishes for his next adventure as he leaves on Friday to climb Ama Dablam!