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Our Angel is taking shape ready for the Abbeystead Angel trail next weekend.  Nursery’s Angel with all its beautiful handprint wings will be on display on the way to Abbeystead from Quernmore not far past Jubilee Tower. There will be lots of other Angels on display in Abbeystead…

This morning we had a visit from Sarah, a STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) ambassador. We learnt about electricity and were able to do some exciting experiments - including making a human circuit in which we could test out some materials to find out if they were insulators or…

This morning, we were practising our cutting skills. We are going to be designing and making a decoration so we will need to be masters with our scissors!

Year 4 have been writing their own prayers. Some were about praising God, some were thanking Him and others were saying sorry. We thought about God’s beautiful world and how we should take care of it. We have tied them to the fence so lots of children can read them.

Today we had our grown ups come into our Reception classroom. They came to our Reading Cafe and read us a story. We had so much fun and loved listening to lots of different stories. 

Our display in class is helping us to remember the different stages of the water cycle for when we write our explanation text.

Year 6 have been learning how to make pastry - the final one of the cooking and baking skills they have learned throughout their time at Scotforth.

Year 6 are currently learning about life in Britain during WW2. Today we focussed on what life was like for children who had been evacuated from cities and sent to live in the countryside. Using evidence from actual WW2 evacuees, we each took on the role of an evacuee and shared our experiences…

In DT have been practising the skills that we need to make sandwiches. Today we practised spreading margarine and ate a slice of bread, butter and honey that we made ourselves!  We also used the bridge hold and the fork hold when we were cutting vegetables with sharp knives. We even used the…

We have enjoyed celebrating with Alfie this week as he rings the bell completing his treatment!

We are learning about the water cycle so today we drew a flow chart on a food bag. We are going to put water into them and watch the different stages of the water cycle happen in the bag. 

This half term we have been looking at lots of different toys. Toys that we used to play in the past when we were babies and toys we play with now. The children have made some amazing toys this week, crocodile, butterflies, rockets, castles, people figures and many more.