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• Friday 11 April 2025 Grow for It! ABC has been striving forward with RWI Phonics, this term. This has helped the children improve their reading and spelling. They are able to recognise many sounds.
• Friday 11 April 2025 Scientific Progress This half-term, Reception Class has been having lots of fun while learning new skills as they investigate a range of scientific phenomena!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Springing Around the Community As our ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ topic continued, we have been looking at different local places we like to visit. We have been looking at our homes, farms, town centres, parks and the beach. We have had an exciting time going to visit these places locally and hopefully now feel confident to visit these places with our parents too!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Still Jet Setting! In class 9, on Shrove Tuesday, we carefully measured and weighed the pancake ingredients using scales. We watched as Lynda fried the pancakes. Abbie and Mrs McConnell skilfully tossed them in the air! Finally, we chose chocolate spread or golden syrup and added fresh fruit toppings. We rolled our pancakes and ate them up! Mmmmm delicious!
• Friday 11 April 2025 The Journey Continues Class 8 have had yet another fantastic half term! We have enjoyed learning about different countries around the world in our topic, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’!
• Friday 11 April 2025 Amazing Adaptions Being a Scientist
• Friday 11 April 2025 Bots, Bonnets, Books & the BBC World Book Day in Class 6
• Friday 11 April 2025 Giving 100% Class 5 have been working really hard this half-term and we can’t wait to share our learning with you all.
• Friday 11 April 2025 Balancing Brilliance This half term, year have 4 have been introduced to gymnastics, focusing on balancing and rolling. The children learned how to perform different types of balances and rolls, developing their coordination, strength, and flexibility. Throughout the lessons, the children demonstrated significant progress in their confidence, balance, and ability to work as part of a team.
• Friday 11 April 2025 Planting, Perimeter and Pyjamas Did you know that we are planting a forest? We, Class 4, have already planted around 100 trees on a part of our school field. We are so excited to be a part of developing an area for learning and enjoyment outdoors. That’s not all - we have been putting our writing skills to good use to bring about further developments for our school grounds. A POND! As a class, we decided to write to Gateshead Council to ask them for funding to create a pond habitat at our school.
• Friday 11 April 2025 Confident Communicators
• Friday 11 April 2025 Tick, Tock - Panic in Pompeii
• Friday 11 April 2025 Dragons, Fire & Castle Capacity We have had a wonderful few weeks as the weather has improved and the children have produced things which they should be so proud of.
• Friday 11 April 2025 A Spring in our Step What a fabulous half term it has been for Year 1. We have loved welcoming the warmer weather, enjoying more time in our beautiful Fairy Garden and discovering lots more about the world.
• Friday 21 February 2025 International Mother Tongue Day We are so happy to be a school with such a wonderfully diverse community, which blends together to form a very special family. We all work together to understand one another and to share our thoughts, ideas and experiences in order to help everyone grow and move forward. The different backgrounds, cultures and knowledge makes our school feel warm, welcoming and so fabulously multicultural. We aim to be a place which proves daily that by showing interest in others and recognising the worth of everyone, we all become better, stronger and happier.
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Golf is coming to Bede! Mrs Lewis has recently completed professional golf training, with a company called 'Little Sticks', and will be rolling out a brand-new golf programme for our key stage 2 children during the upcoming summer term!
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Travelling Around As part of our ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ topic, we have been looking at how we travel around using different methods of transport. We have been learning about cars, buses, trains, airplanes, boats, rockets and motorbikes and now have a much better understanding of how to get from one place to another!
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Jetsetters! We have jetted around the world this half term!
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Travelling Across the World The ARMS children have thoroughly enjoyed their new topic, Around the World in 80 days. We have been researching life in different countries, especially focussing on El Salvador, Hong Kong, China, Romania, Nigeria and Chad, where some of our children’s families come from.
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Around the World in 80 Days What a fantastic half term we have had in Class 8! We have enjoyed our learning in class about our new topic, Around the World in 80 Days!
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Excel-lant Evolution PC Steve
• Thursday 20 February 2025 X-Factors Factor
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Dragons, Robots & Money - Oh My! Great with Geography
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Terrific Tales What an amazing half term we have had in Class One. We have developed in so many ways; gained new skills; discovered new things!
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Around the World We have been ‘Around the World’ during Spring 1, and have been learning about different cultures and traditions. From different clothes worn to traditional food eaten, we have experienced a little taste of the exotic. This topic is particularly important for Reception as so many of our children have links with other countries and we really wanted to acknowledge these links. We kicked things off by putting our names on our World Map, just so that we can see our place in the World.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Doctor, Doctor This half term, we continued the theme of Superheroes; we are looking at real life Superheroes. Before the holidays, we became fire fighters and we have now transformed our home corner/shop into a doctor’s surgery, complete with all of the equipment doctors and nurses need!
• Friday 20 December 2024 Little Steps
• Friday 20 December 2024 Geometry, Geology and... Soup! In Maths, after practising our place value skills, we have applied them to help us solve addition and subtraction problems. We have loved working together, taking turns when playing addition and subtraction games too! We’ve also started learning geometry! We can now describe and sort 2D shapes. We have learnt how many vertices they have and what makes a polygon.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Rollicking Rock Experiments Class 7 have been superhero scientists exploring rocks and soil. They have been discovering where rocks come from, what they are made of and how they are made. We are so interested in rocks that we will be continuing some of our experiments into the new year.
• Friday 20 December 2024 Robots, Romeo & Revolution Publishing and Showcasing

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