Sunnybrow Primary School

Today, our lunch provider Chartwells came in to do some food tasting with each class. After discussing the different food groups, we made and tasted chocolate hummus. It was delicious!

Class 2 attended a multi-skills festival at Parkside. They had great fun!

Class 4 visited Brancepeth Castle as part of their work with the Time Detectives.

Yesterday, class 1 and 3 went on a trip to Bowes Museum!

Class 4 are thoroughly enjoying their history project with Northern Heartlands time detectives, finding out about Sunnybrow and Willington in the past.

Class 2 had a busy week last week! They were exploring materials and their properties in science, creating sculptures in DT and looking at VIPs in PSHE.

Class 1 have been exploring lots of different ways to make the number 7.

On Friday, we had a whole-school celebration for Chinese New Year. We tasted Chinese food, made a whole-school dragon, made lucky purses, paper lanterns and tried Chinese writing. Behaviour was superb and lots of fun was had!

Class 3 have been comparing some of the characters within their class text, Charlotte’s Web.

Cosmos Planetarium came to visit on Monday. Each class went on a different journey into space! It was very interesting!

As part of #UKParliamentWeek class 3 held a debate on ‘the school day should be an hour longer’. They presented their case through speeches and posters, then cast a final vote. It was 12 votes to 4, against extending the school day.

Class 1 have been creating some lovely art work using leaves and berries.

Class 1 have been making a house for Harry the hedgehog!

Class 4 made tasty cheese scones.

Class 3 made sprinkle sponge!

We combined the harvest festival and macmillan coffee morning, inviting parents in to buy some of the delicious things we baked.

In DT, class 3 have been sampling and evaluating some sandwiches as part of their healthy eating topic.