Year 6 enjoyed a well-deserved treat - a visit to Gibside NT where they took part in a series of activities designed to connect with nature and to improve wellbeing.
What a great way to relax after SATs week! Year six visited the wonderful Gibside estate for a day of health and wellbeing activities organised by the SSP. The sun shone which made it a great day for tree finding, team building, picnic eating, park playing, camp-fire story listening and group singin...
Year 6 enjoyed learning about some of the life-changing inventions that have been around since the Victorian times. We then connected with scientists of the past to create our own inventions to help out with everyday problems in the home. They were certainly very creative with their ideas...
Year 6 took two teams to the SSP Cluster basketball tournament along at Thorp Academy. Both teams showed excellent teamwork and resilience in all games. Some great performances on both teams with Crookhill 1 finishing top of the league to take their place in the final which ended in a comfortable vi...
Year 6 enjoyed a fabulous workshop led by volunteers from the Northumberland Fusiliers Museum who are based at Alnwick Castle. It was so interesting to handle artefacts from World War One and to learn about life in the trenches.
This term the children in the Year 5 and 6 computer club have been improving their physical computing skills by using Crumble kits to put some of their coding skills into action. They’ve coded traffic lights, lighthouses and made and controlled their own robot buggies.
Year 6 joined members of the Ryton community, including local MP Liz Twist, to name the tree stump sculpture that they helped to design and to choose a name for. It was a really special moment for everyone involved and we were delighted to be involved in such a lovely project.
Lots of challenge in this activity – setting ourselves a goal to climb as high as possible on the climbing walls or tower or moving quickly across the bouldering wall to get points for the team!