Dinnington First

On Tuesday, Year 2 visited the @LaingArtGallery to explore sculpture. We had a fantastic time creating our own sculptures using our bodies and clay #opentonewexperiences 👨‍🎨 🖼️

Year 2 are making owls 🦉 from fallen, woodland material in woodland learning, which links to our book we are reading in English - The Owl Who Was Afraid Of the Dark #success

Reception have had a fantastic week learning all about Chinese New Year. The children ate a vegetable stir fry using chopsticks, made Chinese lanterns and did dragon dances around the school with their very own dragon’s head! 🥢🐲

Today year 2 has been making bird feeders in Woodland Learning- using team work and #resilience !

Year 4 had a great time at Beamish! We enjoyed learning about what life was like during the Victorian era. @Beamish_Museum ☀️🎩🍭👨🏻‍🏫

Our theme this half term is Under the Sea and this week some of the activities we have been doing are: counting sea creatures, doing imaginary play with fish, playing a number fishing game and sorting fish in a variety of ways #communityspirit and #resilience.

Today year 2 has been transformed into a shop in Maths and we are choosing the correct change to buy different items 💴 #success #opentonewexperiences

Reception have been learning about rainforests this week and had the best time @SundMuseum! We went on a trail to save Lola the Lemur’s habitat from deforestation, walked to the top of the emergent layer of the rainforest and held some real rainforest objects in our workshop 🦧

The children in Nursery have really enjoyed their first lesson on the apparatus #opentonewthings. We also had a cold but lovely Winter walk and a great explore in our forest area, we spotted snow, puddles, mud, fungi, shoots and very bare trees #communityspirit.

Year 2 have been exploring symmetry this week in Maths and in our flashback Friday lesson today, we are using mirrors to identify more than one line of symmetry 🤔 🔷🟥♠️ #success

Our Year 4s are having a great start to 2025! Here are some photos from this week’s Woodland Learning ❄️🪵🌳😁

What an amazing lesson we are having with the African drumming teacher today in year 2, linking our Africa topic in Geography to music 🎵 🎶 #opentonewexperiences

Reception completed their topic of Dinosaurs this week. They have absolutely loved learning about the features, diets and habitats of different dinosaurs. 🦖

Here is @DinningtonFirst's December Wellbeing newsletter. A happy and peaceful Christmas to you all! #WellBeing #Kindness

Nursery are continuing to look at themselves. They have been practicing drawing and painting a person, remembering to do the body. They are trying so hard with their fine motor skills too, we are very impressed #Resilience #success.

This week Year 2 enjoyed their trip to The Discovery Museum, where they learnt more about The Great Fire of Gateshead 🚨

💪 NEW! This poster highlights RETRIEVAL PRACTICE as a powerful learning strategy to strengthen memory and boost learning. It offers valuable insights on applying RP in the classroom. Special thanks to @olicav for the learning and memory diagram! 👊 REPOST and grab a free HQ copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

This week Year 3 enjoyed an excellent books and brunch with stories related to anti-bullying. 📚☕️

Huge well done to all our families for raising such a phenomenal amount of money for Children's Cancer Research and all the children for taking part. #GreggsChildrensCancerRun #Greggs @GosforthGST

For #MathsWeek , Reception have been comparing numbers using more and less. The children have been using objects and number lines to compare numbers. Some of the children even started to write their own number sentences!