Corpus Christi

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 […]

This term the children in Reception have been working hard to understand the concepts of the numbers 1-5. They begin finding 1, and they then learn that 2 is 1 and another 1. Number blocks visuals and videos help the children visualise the amounts. It is important that the children have a secure understanding of […]

In Reception class, the children have been learning about the concept of Advent and that Advent is a time of waiting for the celebration of Christ’s birth.  The children have learnt about the first Christmas – the story of Jesus’ birth. They enjoyed listening to the Gospels of Luke and Matthew which tell us the […]

Reception and Year 1 had great fun taking part in a Balance Bike Day. They learned how to move on a balance bike and weave in, out and around obstacles. The children developed their coordination, balance and control, preparing them for a lifetime of confident cycling. Fantastic work Reception and Year 1.

Year 2 have enjoyed showing how animals and humans relate to each other in a food chain and then being able to design their very own food chain. Also, we started to understand the journey that food makes from the farm to the supermarket. This topic has really helped Year 2 understand the life cycle […]

Year 2 have loved their Design and Technology topic this half term. The children have worked hard looking at textiles and being able to sew a running stitch. First, the children practiced their running stitch. Next, year 2 used a template to cut out a stocking design. After that, they joined ttwo pieces of fabric […]

This week, our school hall was filled with music as Year 6 and Year 4 proudly showcased their talents in a special concert for parents. Year 6 impressed everyone with their beautiful violin performances, while Year 4 delighted the audience with their fantastic recorder playing. Both classes demonstrated hard work, confidence, and growing musical skills […]

On Thursday 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 learning such […]

In Year 6 this half term we have produced some lovely writing based on the picture book ‘The Arrival’ by Shaun Tan. We started by exploring some of the striking images in the first chapter and thought about how a metaphor is used in the form of a dark shadow to represent fear and danger […]

On Tuesday 16th December the whole school took part in a Christmas craft day.  In Year 5 the children put their creative caps on and crafted some beautiful Christmas themed decorations.  In the Autumn term in Art we have been thinking about how to show depth, emotion and movement in our work and we tried […]

Year 3 have been learning all about mountains in their Geography topic. They have learnt about the mountainous regions of the UK such as the Pennines and the Lake District and where the highest mountains in England are. The children in Year 3 have also learnt about the things that may change as you climb […]

This term, Year 1 have been learning all about Queen Elizabeth II in their History lessons. We have looked at Queen Elizabeth’s childhood, her teenage years, her coronation and finally who succeed Queen Elizabeth to the throne. The children have been so engaged in their learning and have loved finding out about the Queen. The […]

Christmas Crafts Day in Year 3 Yesterday it was Christmas Crafts Day at Corpus Christi. The children investigated shades and tones to make their calendars for 2026, and they used watercolour paints to paint a Christmas fairy for their Christmas Card. The children then had an extra treat as they were invited to the Shipley […]

Year 1 had so much fun on Christmas craft day! First, we looked at the artwork of Kandinsky and created our very own Kandinsky inspired Christmas tree craft. The children tried so hard with cutting out the circles and layering them on top of each other, just like Kandinsky does in his artwork! We then […]

In the lead up to Christmas, Year 1 visited the Shipley Art Gallery for an afternoon of Christmas crafts. During the session, Year 1 looked around the gallery at different paintings that showed signs of winter. They used their fantastic Science knowledge of seasonal changes to explain what signs of winter they spotted in lots […]

This half term, some of our Key Stage 2 children have been busy training to become Digital Superheroes! Through engaging and creative activities, we have learned how to stay safe online by protecting our digital identities and understanding why personal information should never be shared online. We began by exploring what personal information means. The […]

Recently, Year 3 had fun carrying out an exciting investigation in Science. The children looked at a recipe for baking a simple cake and then we discussed what might happen if we were to change one variable. After taking a vote, the children decided to add more milk to one cake than the other to […]

This term, the children in Year 3 have enjoyed developing their drawing skills in Art lessons. The children focussed on learning and practising the basic rules for shading when drawing, which are shade in one direction, blend tones smoothly and with no gaps. They found out that shading helps to make drawn objects look more […]

Corpus Christi School Council recently carried out some fundraising events in support of the BBC Children in Need charity. The children decided they would ask the school to come dressed up in something yellow, spotty, Pudsey themed or dressed as a superhero on Children in Need day, in exchange for a 50p donation. They also […]

Recently we held a French Culture Day in school to promote a love of French, as this is the modern foreign language children study in KS2 at Corpus Christi. The children came to school wearing something red, white and/or blue and spent the day learning about different aspects of French culture like food, art, landmarks […]

Last Week, Key Stage 2 were lucky enough to be visited by author Sam Sedgman. He came to talk to us all about being an author. He told us all about the process of writing and publishing a book. Starting from initial ideas and brain storming to the editing process. He also told us all […]