Corpus Christi

This week Year 1 visited Saltwell Park to celebrate a wonderful year shared together. At the park we went to see the animals- we were very lucky and got to see the animals being fed! After that, we went into the play area and had so much fun playing together in the sand, on the […]

This term, Year 2 delivered a fantastic assembly all about protecting our environment, with a special focus on plastic pollution. After reading the inspiring story We Are Water Protectors, the children became passionate about looking after our planet and wanted to help spread awareness about the importance of protecting our environment. They worked hard to […]

Our pupils had an amazing time representing the school at the annual Gateshead School Sports Athletics Festival, taking part in a wide range of track and field events throughout the day. We are incredibly proud to announce that this was our most successful year ever at the athletics festival! Our talented athletes achieved a record-breaking 23 medals across a variety […]

Our Nursery Celebration was a truly special occasion, filled with smiles, laughter, songs and plenty of happy memories.The children delighted parents and carers with a wonderful performance, singing and dancing beautifully with confidence and enthusiasm. They also shared some of their favourite memories from their time in Nursery, reflecting on the friendships they have made, […]

The children have had an amazing morning at our teddy bears picnic. The children were amazed to be joined by a local singer “Lauren Amour”, after a number of children had recently expressed how they would love to be a singer when they grow up 🎤.The children developed their listening and attention skills, participated enthusiastically […]

This week, Year 6 took part in a brilliant Play in a Day workshop with the Konflux Theatre Group. We were incredibly proud of how well the children performed, learning their lines and putting together a wonderful production in such a short space of time. Their confidence, teamwork and enthusiasm shone through from start to […]

Year 6 also enjoyed getting creative in the kitchen as part of their DT project, “Come Dine With Me.” Working in teams, the children planned and prepared either a pasta dish or a delicious dessert. The teachers were blown away by the creativity, presentation and, most importantly, the taste of the finished dishes. We definitely […]

This past half-term, Year 1 have been learning about how to be a good neighbour. At first, we thought about who are neighbours are. Year 1 mentioned their next door neighbours, the person they sit next to in class and the children in our school. We quickly learnt that we have neighbours in different countries, […]

This term in our History lessons, Year 1 have been learning about lots of different rulers. We first learnt about Ramses II, a ruler of Ancient Egypt. Year 1 listened very carefully to the story of Ramses II, and could remember lots about how he is remembered and what he accomplished when he was ruler. […]

A group of children from Year 4 recently represented our school at a cricket competition held at Gateshead Fell Cricket Club. The children played brilliantly throughout the event, demonstrating excellent cricketing skills, teamwork and determination in every match. They were a credit to the school, showing great sportsmanship, respect for their opponents and encouragement towards […]

Year 5 had a fantastic time attending the Celebration of Sport Festival at Gateshead International Stadium. Throughout the day, the children took part in a range of exciting activities, including athletics, multi-sports, and dancing. They showed great enthusiasm, teamwork and determination as they challenged themselves and supported one another. The festival provided a wonderful opportunity […]

During the Summer Term Year 5 have been very busy exploring the theme of Reconciliation and Inter-Relating. The children explored ideas around freedom and responsibility and considered key questions like: How can you enjoy freedom with responsibility and how can rules bring freedom? Children began this journey by understanding the purpose of the Ten Commandments […]

The highlight of our week has definitely been the visit to the Youth Village for the primary festival. This years theme was ‘Behold’ In Isaiah 43:19 God says “Behold, I am doing a new thing”. God is always doing something new, just as Year 6 are getting ready to start anew in their secondary schools. […]

Year 4 pupils proudly led Key Stage 2 and parents in a special celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi. Through prayer, readings and song, the children helped everyone reflect on the importance of the Eucharist and what it means in our faith. A particularly meaningful part of the celebration was the inclusion of pupils […]

Year 6 recently took part in an important summer water safety lesson provided by Northumbria Police, aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of playing in or near open water. During the session, pupils learned about the risks associated with rivers, lakes, and coastal areas, as well as practical advice on how to stay safe […]

Year 6 were delighted to welcome a visitor from Nexus, who delivered an engaging and informative session to support pupils as they prepare for the transition to secondary school. During the visit, children learned how to use public transport responsibly and respectfully, including understanding appropriate behaviour when travelling on buses. Nexus also guided pupils through […]

This week the Year 5 children attended the Emmaus Youth residential. This was a fantastic trip where the children took part in different activities and recalled the story of St Peter, a fisherman who was called by Jesus to an extraordinary mission. The theme of this residential was Living Hope and the Youth Team encouraged […]

This week in school we have been learning about and celebrating a range of other world faiths as part of our commitment to recognising and valuing our rich diversity. As a Catholic school, we believe in showing respect, compassion and understanding towards others. By exploring different believes and traditions we help our children to grow […]

Our school had a great day celebrating Sports Day. We walked down to Saltwell Park and took part in a variety of different games such as a sprint, egg and spoon race, sack race, long jump, vortext howler throw and an obstacle relay. The children had great fun competing in all these activities in groups. […]

A massive well done to some children from Year 6 who took part in a Football Tournament at the academy of sport. Our team were amazing in the group stages working brilliantly together to score 24 goals while only conceding 4. We moved onto the semi-final where we were narrowly beat. Although the children were […]

The children celebrated World Bee day 2026, we began by reading a story about bees and then watched and discussed a video about how bees make honey. The children were fascinated that there was a Queen bee found in each honey bee colony. Lots of our children said they had tasted honey before and shared […]

Nursery thoroughly enjoyed a visit from our local librarian called Joanne. She told the children all about her role at Gateshead library, she even told them how their grown ups could sign up to the library for free and borrow some books regularly. This sounded very excited and something the children were really excited about. […]

This half term in Nursery, the children have been building on their previous pattern experiences and developing greater independence in their patterning skills. Through a range of engaging songs, rhymes and hands-on activities, the children had many opportunities to explore and practise creating patterns independently. These experiences helped the children to consolidate repeated rhythms and […]

During the Summer term the children have had a fantastic time exploring the medium of Sculpture in Art! Our work started with an in depth look at some of the sculpture pieces done by the renowned artist Cai Gio-Qian. We explored some of the pieces and thought about the meaning behind them and what our […]

In the Spring term Year 5 learnt about Henry Brown, a key figure in the underground railroad movement. Year 5 discovered that the underground railroad was not a real railway. It was a secret system of hidden routes and safe houses that were used by enslaved people in the 1800’s in the US to escape […]

In Year 1 we have been exploring the continents and oceans of the world. First, Year 1 learnt about some of the different countries on Earth. To help identify some countries we used a globe and spotted countries like Australia, United States of America, France and India. We then had a chance to explore the […]

Year 1 had so much fun at Saltwell park for their Science lesson all about wild flowers. The children were tasked with finding different wild flowers as we walked around the park. These included daisies, dandelions and forget-me-nots. The children were so enthusiastic and engaged in their lesson and were able to apply their classroom […]

Some children from Year 5 and 6 attended a countdown cricket festival on Monday. They worked extremely hard as a team focusing on their batting, bowling and fielding skills. The children had a fantastic day playing cricket while looking for other players from different schools demonstrating some key values such as friendship, determination, excellence and […]

We are incredibly proud of some of our girls from year 4 and 5 for their fantastic achievement in finishing third at today’s girl football tournament. Competing with determination, teamwork and resilience the girls demonstrated great skill and always showed respect towards other teams. Their hard work and dedication was evident in every match and […]

Our Year 2 classroom was filled with excitement as we welcomed a very special guest, our Parish Priest Fr Chris, to talk to us about Palm Sunday. To help the children understand the significance of this special day that starts Holy Week, Fr Chris and Miss Dickinson led an interactive session exploring the story of […]

The children in Reception have thoroughly enjoyed our topic on ‘Growing’. They have enjoyed listening to stories such as; Jack and the Beanstalk, Jasper’s Beanstalk, The Extraordinary Gardener and The Tiny Seed. They planted seeds with care and knew how to look after them. They checked on them each day for signs of growth and […]

As part of our learning about growing, Reception class visited Whitehouse Farm. The children enjoyed hand feeding a range of animals and especially enjoyed feeding the baby lamb’s some milk. They looked so cute in their woolly jumpers! The children also had the opportunity to handle small animals such as; rabbits, mice, a giant African […]

This half term in Nursery has been largely centred around New Life and showing care and concern for living things. We have talked about what we were like as babies and what helped us grow into the people we are today. We then likened this to animals and explored how farmers look after their animals. […]

Our Mini Vinnies would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who supported their recent Coffee Morning! The children decided, as a group, that they wanted to support our local food co-op based at our church. Their mission was to ensure that every child whose family relies on our local food bank receives […]

On Wednesday 25th March, year 4 took part in the Gateshead schools dance festival at the Glasshouse. After weeks of rehearsal with their fantastic dance instructor, Helen, year 4 showcased their brilliant dancing and performed their ‘Fiesta’ dance for the whole audience at the Gateshead schools dance festival. The performance was a mash up of […]

One of the books we have read in Year 1 this term has been ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin. This story is a non-fiction book, all about Floella’s life. We listened to how Floella moved from the tropical island of Trinidad all the way to London, England. To start with, we made predictions about […]

Year 1 have been learning all about the recent past in their History topic. Over the past few weeks we have learnt about the type of toys that grandparents and great-grandparents might have played with when they were little. Year 1 found out that in the past, toys were often made from wood or metal. […]

This term in Year 1, we have been learning about numbers up to 50. In particular, we have been learning about the tens and ones in a number and how to partition numbers into parts. We used a part-whole model and some base 10 to help us identify the tens and ones in a number. […]

The children in Reception have been busy learning about Lunar New Year. They enjoyed listening to the traditions that happen each year. They enjoyed creating beautiful lanterns, practicing writing Chinese numbers and even tasted some traditional Chinese foods. They enjoyed watching the Lunar New Year celebrations and were keen to learn a dragon dance themselves. […]

This half term the children have been working hard in their phonics sessions to revise the phase 2 digraphs and learn the phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs. Each day the children have a phonics session where they revise their sounds and sound – talk – blend to help them read and write words. They then […]

This half term the children have been working hard deepening their understanding of numbers 0-7. In Reception class, the children get a daily maths session and a daily mastering number session. These two formal lessons help children to secure the foundational skills for maths that are required at this age. As well as these formal […]

This term, Year 3 have enjoyed exploring Dance in their PE lessons. Firstly, they completed a unit called Machines which we linked to our English text, The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. The children enjoyed exploring making movements like a machine with their bodies. They had fun working alongside a partner to make spinning movements […]

Moving from our learning of the Polar Regions we began exploring the warmer jungle and rainforest areas. The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring our jungle role play area where they dressed up as elephants, snakes and tigers to name a few 🐍🦁🐅🦒Some children enjoyed getting creative by turning themselves into jungle rangers by designing their very […]

This half term in Nursery we have been exploring hot and cold places. We began looking at cold places and the polar regions. The children were fascinated to learn that some areas of our world were covered in snow and ice for almost the whole year. The children took part in an experiment demonstrating how […]

Year 1 have been learning all about the UK in their Geography unit: Where are we? At first, we learnt all about our local area and used aerial view maps to locate familiar places such as our school, church, shops and parks. Then, we started to broaden our understanding of the United Kingdom and found […]

In PE, Year 1 have been learning gymnastics. We have been learning about balancing and making shapes with our bodies. Some of the shapes have been: straddle, tuck, arch and star. Year 1 have worked hard on mastering the shapes and then moved on to making their own sequences. We thought about our starting pose, […]

In our Art lessons this term we have been learning about primary and secondary colours. First, we learnt that the three primary colours are red, yellow and blue. Then, we found out that if we mix these primary colours together, we can make secondary colours: green, orange and purple. We had so much fun colour […]

This term the children in Year 3 have been studying Stone Age art. They are reading a book called Stone Age Boy in class in their English lessons, and they have learnt that the Stone Age people drew pictures of animals on their cave walls. The children have observed photos of animals that would have […]

This term, the children in Year 3 have began to learn how to play the recorder. They have been learning how to recognise and play different notes on the instrument, and to read simple pieces of music. Since beginning their lessons in January, the children have even learnt to play some simple tunes called Djembe […]

This half term in Year 5 the children have been continuing to learn about fractions, building upon what they already covered in the Autumn term. Children have learnt how to multiply fractions, find fractions of an amount, multiply by mixed numbers and how to use fractions as operators. The children got stuck in and really […]

In Art, Year 5 have been spending this half term thinking about mixed media and how to develop portraits in this technique. The children began by constructing self-portraits that were made up of words they thought best described themselves. It was great to see the children using ambitious vocabulary. The children continued to experiment with […]

In Art, Year 2 have been learning about primary and secondary colours, colour mixing and creating textures using different tools. We have been creating a collage of colour and the children have been very excited experimenting with different materials. Our Year 2 children have a much better understanding of colour, texture and composition in Art.

Year 2 have worked extremely hard this half term. We have started looking at multiplication and division. We have been learning our 2, 5 and 10 times table. We have sang songs, played games, used counters, started using times tables rockstars and loads more exciting different ways to learn our times tables. Our favourite has […]

Year 2 have been designing and creating their very own model habitats. The first step was to choose a specific habitat. We chose Antarctica, Ocean, Rainforest and Desert. Next, we researched the specific features of the habitat including the types of plants and animals that live there, the climate and the geography. We gathered materials […]

This half term in Year 6 the children have worked really hard to understand the concepts behind algebra. Although this is the first time the children had encountered a lot of these concepts they have really worked hard to understand them. Over the course of a few weeks they have formed expressions, used substitution, written […]

This half term in Year 6 we have been studying all about the heart and the circulatory system. As part of this learning we carried out an investigation which explored the restriction of blood flow through different sized arteries. We used different sized holes in the bottom of paper cups to represent different levels of […]

Yesterday was Safer Internet Day and so today, our Digital Superheroes presented their very first Safer Internet Day assembly to our Key Stage 2 children. Our Head Digital Superheroes, created the presentation themselves, organised the other Digital Superheroes brilliantly and led the whole assembly… and what an incredible job they did! All of our Digital […]

This Sunday, some of our Mini Vinnies kindly gave up their weekends to serve teas and coffees at the end of our Sunday Mass at Corpus Christi Church.  They raised money to help them prepare for their Lenten Coffee Morning, next month, where they are hoping to provide our Food Co-op with enough Easter Eggs […]

In Year 4 we have been learning, in our RE lessons, about our parish community and the special people that have ministries. We have been learning about all of the special jobs that help to keep our parish community going and the special place that it is. We found out that different people in our […]

The children in Key Stage 2 really enjoy their French lessons, and they are becoming confident in phonics, vocabulary and grammar. Year 3 are working on the Rouge curriculum, Year 4 – Jaune, and Year 5 and 6 have moved onto Bleu this year. The children are working on the Rachel Hawkes scheme primarily in […]