Corpus Christi

Representatives from the KS2 choir paid a visit to the residents of Rosewood Care Home this week. They sang a selection of songs from their back catalogue, to rapturous applause. It is wonderful for the children to get out into the community and share their talents. They represented our school brilliantly.

Congratulations to our two winners, who correctly guessed the number of jelly beans in the jar. Thank you to all who entered. All money raised goes towards our Lenten fundraising.

In Year 6 we have been reading and interpreting pie charts! We have used a variety of different pie charts and extracted information from them as well as creating our own questions about a given pie chart. We then had a go at drawing our own pie charts. We asked everyone in the class their […]

Year 5 visited Northern Stage this week to watch a production of The Tempest by the Royal Shakespeare Company. This was an introduction to the play as they will be studying it in the Summer term. It was lovely to see the children so engaged with Shakespeare, and, whilst they didn’t know the story to […]

Once again, we were amazed by how creative our children can be. Children from all age groups decorated boiled eggs at home and brought them in to school. We all enjoyed looking at them. Children paid 50p to enter which will be donated to our Lenten charities. Well done to all of the eggs-traordinary winners!

This week, Years 2 & 5 had the opportunity to show off their musical skills to each other and their families in their end of tuition sharing performance. Year 2 played brilliantly on the glockenspiel, showing how much they’ve learnt about rhythm and notation, playing each piece from memory. Year 5 expertly played the ukulele […]

Year 2 had a wonderful day exploring Beamish Museum. In the pit village, we visited some of the cottages. A lady was kneading some dough to make bread. She told us all about it and other things in the cottage such as the tin bath and the tongs used for toasting bread. There was a […]

Representatives of the KS2 Corpus Christi choir sang at the prestigious glasshouse last week. They sang two songs, Cover Me in Sunshine and Lean on Me, to rapturous applause. Staff and parents who attended were very proud of them all. We hope that this will become a regular event, as the children gained so much […]

It was lovely to see some of our parents enjoy reading a book with their child over breakfast this week. Having this event before school, is such a calming way to start the day, for parents and carers as well as the children. It is often so rushed in the mornings, getting them ready and […]

On Friday, we took part in the Big Lent Walk for CAFOD. It was a lovely day and we enjoyed walking around Saltwell Park. Along the way, we stopped to remind ourselves who we are helping by taking part in this walk. We also thought about the Jubilee Year and how this was like a […]

On World Maths Day Nursery enjoyed playing a roll and colour dice game. They took turns to roll the dice consisting of numerals and representations up to 3. When the dice landed on a numeral or a representation, the children shouted out the number and then found the animal with the corresponding numeral on their […]

Blessed Carlo Acutis is scheduled to be the first millennial saint as he will be canonised in April 2025. Because of his devotion to the Eucharist, his youthfulness and his life in the 21 century, he was chosen to be the patron of Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust.  A relic of Blessed Carlo is visiting […]

In Science this week Year 6 carried out four different mini investigations centred around light phenomenons# 1st- Light dispersal- we investigated how when light is dispersed, the white light beams are separated into colours which make up a beam of light. Like a rainbow. 2nd- Refraction- when light travels from one transparent medium such as […]

On Monday Year 6 planned and carried out a class collective worship to celebrate the end of their unity topic. We gathered to think about why we are happiest when we are united. We celebrated by signing one of our favourite hymns, Gather Together and we sat in a circle to symbolise unity around our […]

Year 3 recently had a wonderful day on World Book Day. The children made Reading Rivers to show what they enjoy reading and some of their favourite texts, and they participated in a workshop with Joanna Nadin the author of ‘The Worst Class in the World’ which the children have loved listening to in class. […]

This term Year 3 have been studying Stone Age Cave paintings in art. The children discovered that prehistoric people used natural materials from mud, flowers and berries to produce paint to decorate their cave walls. The children sketched an animal from prehistoric times in their sketch books and then they enlarged it using charcoal. The […]

The children of Corpus Christi love World Book Day every year, but this year seemed to be bigger and better than ever before. Throughout school, children took part in a variety of online activities including meeting authors, listening to stories and even an illustration masterclass! Every child in school made their own reading river to […]

Last half term, Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed a Gymnastics unit in PE. They started by making a range of shapes with their bodies. Once they had practised the shapes, they created their own sequences. They tried hard to make smooth transitions between movements. Next, they used the shapes that they have learnt to create with […]

This half term, Year 2 have been exploring painting and mixed media. We started by naming the primary and secondary colours and explored what happens when they are mixed. Next, we went on a texture hunt around school and recreated them using a variety of tools. We looked at collages by the artist Romare Beardon […]

Year 2 have been learning about multiplication and division. We started by looking at equal and unequal groups before learning how to use arrays to organise groups. The children have started using the multiplication sign ‘x’ and have written multiplication sentences. They have also started using the division sign and have made equal groups by […]

We have thoroughly enjoyed reading Speak Up by Nathan Byron and Dapo Adelaide. The story tells the tale of a young bookworm called Rocket who makes it her mission to save her local library. She loves reading and has been inspired by great change-makers of the past such as Rosa Parks. During our learning, we […]

As part of Understanding the World, Nursery have been exploring rain, ice, water, snow and melting. The children had observed the weather becoming colder and having to wear their ‘hats, scarfs, gloves, coats and boots’. Some children even got to play and make snowmen when it snowed before it soon melted. This sparked some curiosity […]

The Corpus Christi Choir were thrilled to have the opportunity to record something for the MOBO Awards this month. We have learned a song. ‘God Gave Me Feet for Dancing’ by The Ezra Collective and recorded our vocals this week. This will be part of a much bigger video recording and shared live at the […]

This week Year 2 have been making amounts of money in different ways, using pounds and pence. Some of the children had a variety of coins on their desks, whereas others used the bank at the back of the class to help them make their amounts. Next week Year 2 will continue to look at […]

This half tern the children in Year 3 have began to learn about La famille – The family. They are learning to identify the names of family members : mere, pere, soeur and frere/ Mother, father, sister and brother. They are also learning the definite articles, le and la which are singular words for ‘the’. […]

We started off with a true or false quiz testing what we already know about Ancient Greece! Greece was a country- False it was split into lots of city states, which often went to war against each other. Slaves could be bought and sold at a market, just like animals- True- Often people captured in […]

On Tuesday and Wednesday we were visited by Sam from the Anne Frank trust. We first thought about what the word equality meant to us and agreed to us it meant that people are treated the same no matter who they are. We also learnt some other key words which would be key for our […]

Catholic Social Teaching tells us how our Catholic faith guides our actions. The children have enjoyed learning about 9 different principles of Catholic Social Teaching and getting to know the different characters that CAFOD have created to represent each one. Although Catholic Social Teaching has been spoken about since 1891, Pope Francis continues to add […]

On Thursday Year 6 visited Safety Works in Newcastle. This is a pop up ‘world’ designed to teach us about safety including road safety, water safety, rail safety and how to stay safe and avoid peer pressure. We all had the chance to experience each aspect and spent time discussing different scenarios and acting out […]

During this half term, Year 5 has started developing their gymnastics skills. We have started the unit by looking at some basic shapes that are used within gymnastics such as the star, straddle, tuck, pike, front support and back support. Next, we started looking at some symmetrical and asymmetrical balances. From this learning, we then […]

In this Sunday’s Gospel, we are asked to consider how we can be a shining light for hope for others. Use the attached file to read the Gospel reading and explore this question as a family.

This week we were delighted to welcome author and illustrator, Adeola Sokunbi, into school to speak with children in Key Stages 1&2. It was inspiring for the children to see themselves represented and they thoroughly enjoyed taking part in her workshop. Adeola spoke about her training at university in computer animation and how she used […]

This week Year 2 welcomed some of their parents into their maths lesson. They were showing off their addition skills adding together 2 two digit numbers and adding 2 one digit numbers. Year 2 were fantastic and their grown ups were super impressed with their maths skills. Well done Year 2!

We had a visit from Richard today who came to tell us about a part of Gateshead and Newcastle’s history. We started by looking at photographs of the Quayside from today and from 100 years ago. The children looked for things that were the same and things that had changed. We noticed a big gap […]

In Science we have finished our topic all about the circulatory system and we were able to show case all of the things we have leant throughout the half term in the style of an explanation text using words, pictures and symbols to do so. We included sections on how the circulatory system works, the […]

In writing this week we have created a poem, to convey the emotions of the first chapter of our visual narrative the arrival. We used word classes to form the basis of each line. We started with a noun, then added a verb then an adverb to describe each of the first 8 images. We […]

In our RE lessons, Reception have been looking at how we are all part of God’s family and how we are all special to God. The children have been practicing a song with some actions that they would like to share with everyone.

In RE this half term Year 6 have been thinking about Vocation and Commitment. We first thought about what the word commitment meant to us and what things comes along with commitment such as sacrifices of time or energy. We thought about what commitment certain jobs required, before focusing our attention on the vocation and […]

In this Sunday’s Gospel, we are asked to consider how we can be generous with our hearts. Use the attached file to read the Gospel reading and explore this question as a family.

It was a pleasure to welcome Bishop Stephen to our school this week. He enjoyed having a tour and popped in to each class to say hello. Our year 5 and 6 children took the opportunity to pose a number of questions to him which helped them to get to know him better – they […]

This week, we hear a story from Mark’s Gospel. Jesus is asked, ‘Which is the most important of all the commandments?’ Use the attached file to read the Gospel reading and explore this question as a family.

This half term Year 1 have read lots of lovely stories. One of our favourite books has been ‘Beegu.’ We began this story by making a prediction about what happened to Beegu. Year 1 made very creative predictions and used the clues in the text and pictures to make some really good guesses. We then […]

This week we gathered as a school and parish community to give thanks and praise to God for all of his gifts to us. We also acknowledged our responsibility to share what we have with others who have less. We are so grateful for all of the donations of food that have been brought in […]

Year 5 have been working incredibly hard in Computing and visited Saltwell Park this half term to capture photos and videos for their “Video Production” unit. They have been learning how to capture, edit and manipulate video using the free app iMovie. They planned which areas of the park they would like to include in […]

In our Design Technology lessons this half term, we have been creating a mindfulness timer using micro:bits. We explored existing timers and then used the features of these timers to design our own. We then used the micro:bits and coded a programme to work as a timer. This was very tricky as we were using […]

We are very excited to be taking part in the First Lego League programme for the very first time this year. Miss Dickinson applied for funding to enable our Key Stage 2 children to take part in the First Lego League Explore programme through the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) and was successful in […]

The children in Year 3 have recently celebrated the end of their Homes and families topic by planning and holding a class liturgy. The children selected the hymns and readings themselves and their mission was to remember to use good manners at home and school.

Year 2 have been working extremely hard in maths this half term! So far they have read, written, ordered and compared numbers to 100 and used flexible partitioning to split numbers to 100. They have also begun to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. Here they are using their number bonds to 10 to complete […]

On Friday Year 5 and 6 were visited by Northumbria Police to talk about ‘The internet and us’, which aimed to educate us on the dangers that come with using the internet, in particular social media platforms. We first thought about reasons why we use the internet and social media and discussed the age restrictions […]

Year 6 have made a flying start to maths this Year. We have recapped skills from Year 5 such as ordering, comparing, reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000 before applying those skills to numbers to 10,000,000. We then moved on to looking the four operation more closely. We have perfected our formal written methods for […]

This half term Year 1 have transitioned brilliantly from maths in Reception to Maths in Year 1. They have compared,sorted and ordered numbers within 10 as well as counting forwards and backwards within 10. Here they are writing addition numbers sentences, progressing on to finding addition fact families using a tens frame. Amazing work Year […]

Year 5 have been hard at work this half term reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000, rounding to 1,000,000 and comparing and ordering numbers to 1,000,000. They have also began exploring multiple, factors, prime numbers and square numbers. Here they are showing off their knowledge of what square numbers look like.

Black History Workshop Last week Year 6 took part in a workshop, hosted by the Anne Frank Trust, which re-told in narrative form Black History in Britain. The workshop was presented by author Jeffrey Boakye and he constructed a clever narrative to explain the beginnings of the British Empire and an explanation of some abstract […]

In art this half term our topic is titled ‘Make your voice heard!’ We have looked at symbolism in art starting with studying how ancient civilisations such as the Mayans used a range of symbols in their art work. We studied their style of art and created a research page based on their art styles, […]

In Science this half term we have focused on the circulatory system. To begin with we learnt all about the structure and function of the heart. Learning many pieces of key vocabulary such as atrium, ventricle, vessel and valve! We spent lots of time trying to understand how the heart works and what the circulatory […]

Nursery have really enjoyed maths this half term. They have made simple comparisons of amounts, made simple line patterns and explored share using different objects.

Recently KS2 were lucky enough to be involved in a poetry workshop online, hosted by the National Literacy Trust and Royal British Legion. The workshop was focussed on remembrance poetry and the children were able to listen to the work of Nikita Gill. She then supported them through writing the beginnings of their own poems […]

In the Catholic Church, May and October are months traditionally dedicated to Our Lady and the Rosary. Mary, the mother of God, was a loving mother and a model for missionaries. The Rosary is a form of prayer that helps us to reflect on the life of Mary and Jesus. Every Friday in October, our […]

Last weekend our wonderful choir performed for the parish of St Peter’s Church in Low Fell. they sang three numbers amazingly and received rapturous applause. We have such talented singers in our school and we are very proud of them. To watch a clip of them, please use the following links:

This week we welcomed staff from Gateshead Libraries into school to meet with parents and children over breakfast. It was an opportunity to share a story together whilst enjoying a breakfast snack. Parents were also able to look at our new curriculum library, which we are very proud of. Gateshead Libraries staff were able to […]