Year 4 visit to Durham Cathedral

15th July 2025Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 4 had an amazing trip to Durham Cathedral!

As part of our topic, “Why do people visit Durham Cathedral today?”, we explored the history, art, and faith that make this place so special.

From stunning stained glass windows to peaceful prayer spaces, we discovered how the cathedral is not just a building – it’s a place of worship, learning, and community.

The children asked brilliant questions and showed great curiosity throughout.

A huge thank you to the cathedral staff and volunteers for helping the children with their project.

Retelling the story of the birth of Jesus

12th December 2023Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 4 had a visit from a storyteller that helped them create story beads to retell the birth story. They went through the story together adding a bead for every stage.

The stages were as follows:

  • A blue bead for the world that God created.
  • A heart bead to show that God loved everything he had created.
  • A metal bead to represent money and the greed that people developed.
  • A white and gold bead for the angel that told Mary of her baby to be born.
  • Another blue bead for Mary as she is depicted in blue.
  • A wooden bead for Joseph who was a carpenter.
  • A green bead to remind us of the Shepherds green hills and fields and that Jesus would be a shepherd of people.
  • A star bead to remind us of the star that lead the way.
  • A gold bead to remind us of the first gift brought by the Magi.
  • A purple bead for Frankincense, the second gift, used whilst you worship.
  • An amber bead for Myrrh, the third gift, which was used to heal and prepare the dead.
  • A white bead for the pure and perfect baby.
  • Lastly, a ring to close the bead string symbolising peace and love for without love everything falls apart.

KS1 and 2 visit to St. Nicholas Church

19th December 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

Children from KS1 and KS2 took a wintry Christmas walk to St Nicholas’ Church this morning. Once there, the children sung some of their favourite Christmas songs in this beautiful environment and talked with Rev. Paul about how Christians celebrate Christmas.

Rev. Paul was very impressed with some of the questions relating to the church itself.

All of the children were so impeccably behaved and are a real credit to our school!

Thank you Rev Paul.

KS2 visit to St Nicholas’ Church

14th December 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

KS2 (Year 3-6) enjoyed a wonderful walk to St Nicholas Church this morning.

Once there, each year group sang a Christmas carol they had been practising over the last few weeks. Rev. Paul also told the children all about Advent and chose a lucky Year 3 child to come and light the candles on the Advent wreath.

Rev. Paul was really impressed with the children’s knowledge of Advent already and after that the children asked him such insightful questions about the church.

At the end of the service Rev. Paul blessed us all with a lovely Christmas prayer.

All of the children were beautifully behaved and represented our school incredibly! Well done KS2!

KS2 children listening to Rev. Paul

KS2 children listening to Rev. Paul
KS2 children listening to Rev. Paul Year 4 children singing
KS2 children listening to Rev. Paul
A child helping Rev. Paul light the candles A child helping Rev. Paul light the candles A child helping Rev. Paul light the candles
Year 4 children singing
KS2 children listening to Rev. Paul
KS2 children listening to Rev. Paul
KS2 children asking Rev. Paul questions KS2 children saying a prayer at the end of the service
KS2 children asking Rev. Paul questions

Rev. Paul’s Christmas Q&A

21st December 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

Each year group posed a question to Rev. Paul relating to their current topic questions for R.E. Watch the video below to see his answers.

Look out for a special guest appearance from Maisie the dog too!

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Fun with instructions

13th March 2020R Smith

In Literacy this week, Class 9 have been learning about instruction writing and how important it is to write clear and precise instructions. We have been learning about Lent in RE so decided to write instructions for making (microwave) pancakes.  In small groups, we drafted the method step by step. We then tried to follow our instructions exactly as we had written them. The children quickly realised that they had not written clear and precise instructions which led to hilarious results. Some groups forgot to open the pancakes, some groups didn’t turn the microwave on, and some left their toppings in the bag or jar.

The children went back and improved their instructions so they could actually make their pancakes successfully and more importantly eat them.

Visit to St Nicholas’ Church

6th January 2020R Smith

Thursday 5th December KS2 visited St Nicholas Church in Boldon. The children were told about the history of the church; the architecture of the church, showing us how we knew it had been extended, the meaning of the stained glass windows and about the history of St Nicholas himself. The priest then used two of our pupils to explain the meaning of Christingle – Jesus the light of the world. He explained how the christingle is made up and what each part represents;

  • An orange, representing the world
  • A candle pushed into the centre of the orange, then lit, representing Jesus Christ as the light of the world
  • A red ribbon wrapped around the orange representing the blood of christ
  • Dried fruits and/or sweets skewered on cocktail sticks pushed into the orange, representing the fruits of the earth and the four seasons.

To finish the children sang Christmas songs!

Learning about Buddhism

3rd December 2019R Smith
As part of our RE topic this term, the children have been learning about different religions (Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism) the beliefs and values.
We invited in visitors from the Dhammakaya Meditation Centre of Newcastle- Hebburn. Our visitors introduced themselves and checked how much the children already knew about Buddhism. They then discussed Buddhist Culture: How to bow (Short Video), Buddha’s story (Short Video), Buddha teaching: Meditation and a Monk’s life. The children had lots of valuable questions and learnt a lot from the workshop.

Bible come Alive!

15th November 2019R Smith

Year 4 had a great morning learning all about  The Bible Comes Alive. The children learnt about Jesus’ life and the story of Jesus. This was through different viewpoints from several important people. The children had a great time singing songs and even got to test their knowledge with a quiz!