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Lovely collaborative play this morning from some of the Dinos when the heavens opened and we couldn’t get out for play. They’ve been dying to do this jigsaw for weeks and they worked so well together to complete it. #dcpsdinosaur #dcpslifeskills #dcpscore
Year 3 had an awesome time at the Rising Sun learning about the Stone Age. We got take grind flour, make, cook and eat bread as well as den building. The children were so enthusiastic and loved every minute of it #dcpsturtle #dcpslotc #dcpstopic #dcpscore
Well done to our Key Stage 1 superstars! 💪🔭🤝🎖✊🙏🌈💜🥰
Well done to all of you 👌
Especially our grandson Alfie and Granddaughter Emily so proud of you xxx
Perfect Pumpkin hair! 🎃 Our parents are just amazing! Happy half term! 🥰💜🌈
Toyah Farnworth your pumkin is famous 🎃
Ahh r beautiful Amelia 🥰
aw love the pumkin looking lovely xxxxxxxxx
Meet out our Y5 Phunky Food Ambassadors. The children have had a planning meeting this afternoon to discuss how they can promote a healthy lunch throughout the school. #dcpspshe #dcpsdt #dcpspe #dcpscore
Taken before the rain started…and it’s clearly a Friday thing! 😂 I think we got them all looking at some point! 😂 Your children are utterly amazing. 💪🔭🤝🎖✊🙏🌈💜🥰
Natalie Louise
Determination. 💜🌈 When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. #determined 💪
Our resident Dino musicians wowed me this morning with how quickly they were able to pick up playing a brand new tune on the recorders. They can now confidently read music without the names of the notes being shown (something Mrs Candlish can’t do). These children are just amazing 😁
#dcpsdinosaur #dcpsmusic #dcpscore
This morning Y2 were looking at common exception words. We practiced reading the words then played a memory game to see if we could remember what the words were and which one was missing. Naturally we ramped up the challenge by having to spell the missing word correctly without looking at it to win a point. Fantastic learning all round. #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsdragon #dcpsenglish #dcpscore
Today Y2 were all about taking their learning outside (it’s a shame we picked the chilliest day of the term so far to do it but the children showed off their resilience and braved the elements regardless). We started our morning with applying our learning about adding two numbers together using a column method to playing a game. We had to add the scores together to find out who won the game. This afternoon we practiced our spellings by challenging our partner to spell a word using water and paintbrushes. Not only great fun but it really got us thinking about using the spelling patterns we knew to spell a different word. Fantastic learning from all the Dinos. #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsmaths #dcpsenglish #dcpslotc #dcpscore
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Harvest Festival this year. The amount of food donated to the Bay Foodbank was phenomenal and we are overwhelmed with your kindness and generosity. It took several attempts to squeeze all of your donations into the van! Ha-ha! You are all amazing!
We also celebrated Harvest by welcoming Reverend Sue and Reverend Kim into our assembly, ‘A bowlful of Harvest’ and sang some of our favourite Harvest songs ‘Cauliflowers Fluffy’ and ‘Harvest for the World’. #dcpsRE #dcpscollectiveworship #dcpscore
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Well done everyone x
This week the full time nursery have enjoyed listening to the story ‘What’s in the witch’s kitchen’. We used tweezers to free all the spiders from the spider web and practised drawing our own spider webs using anti-clockwise circles. We had lots of fun created our own magic potions using water and flavoured tea as well as a range of Halloween objects and talked about what our potions would do. We also had lots of fun exploring and carving our own pumpkins as well as creating our own pumpkin crafts #dcpscaterpillar #dcpseyfs #dcps30hours #dcpsliteracy #dcpsSTEM
Determination was the name of the day!! Great effort by #dcpslion to climb hills today 💪💜🌈. #dcpscore #dcpspe
Year 1 have been asking and answering questions in English. We even had a visit from the Big Bad Wolf! Watch the video to see how scary he was! #dcpsyear1 #dcpsenglish #dcpsoracy
Lots of fun
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Year 1 Panda class had a lovely time during our PSHE lesson last week. The children listened to the story ‘The Colour Monster’ and we discussed the range of emotions that the monster felt through the story. We then thought of lots of ways to make ourselves feel yellow (happy). #dcpspanda #dcpspshe #dcpslifeskills #mentalhealthawarenessweek
Dino of the week for all the hard work and effort she is putting into her learning. She’s also a very gracious girl. #dcpsdinosaur
Jenna Lilly Araniello
Well done Lilly 💖🌟
Year 5 loved their maths lesson today because they got to write all over the tables!! The children used their addition and subtraction skills to solve multi-step problems. They were amazing and even made the tables look spotless after - like nothing ever happened! Well done year 5! #dcpswhale #dcpsdolphin #dcpsmaths #dcpscore
Exploring the woods to find the most disgusting ingredients possible to put in a potion for Mrs Clark! #explorer 🔭 💜🥰 #dcpscore
Ross Howe Katherine Stevens
Lots of mud and stick leaves 😄
Bike4Health are offering children the opportunity to join a ‘Spooky’ Bike ride this halloween. Look at the link below for details.
www.bike4health.org/product-category/rides-experiences/
Andrew Grogan you should do this with Jack x
In DT today Elephants found out all about Charles Macintosh and the development of waterproof fabric. We applied this knowledge by thinking about how we could make paper waterproof. We used wax crayons, oil pastels, plastic sheets and cling film to cover our paper, the tricky part was folding the paper into a boat! We were really impressed by how well the oil pastels worked! #dcpselephant #dcpsdt #dcpsstem #dcpscore
This afternoon our Y2 gymnasts tackled jumping from apparatus. We mastered straight, star and tuck jumps, making sure we landed on two feet and took off from either one foot or two feet. We were very brave on the higher apparatus. #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsdragon #dcpscore #dcpspe
We are really proud of our girls football teams. They demonstrated great determination in their first match. One were unlucky to be beaten in extra time 3-2 while the other team fought hard for a 0-0 draw. #dcpspe #dcpscore 🌈💜#determined 💪
Well done girls xx
Well done 👍
So proud, well done x
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Well done girls xx
Well done x
Awww Aprils dying to do football do they do it in year 3????
Well done girls x
Well done girls x
Well done girls 👏
Elephants enjoyed their workshop with Worry Wizards this afternoon. We learnt about what we can do to help make our worries smaller and the importance of wellbeing. #dcpselephant #dcpslifeskills #dcpscore #dcpslotc
Year 4 Giraffes have had a great afternoon taking part in a Worry workshop with Big Foot. We learnt all about worries, it is okay to have worries as long as we know how to help ourselves shrink these and we know how to cope with them. We talked about our well being and how we can make sure that our well-being is top of our priorities. #dcpsgiraffe #dcpscore #dcpslifeskills
Year 3 really enjoyed the Worry Wizard workshop today. We learnt about the importance of wellbeing and what to do if we ever feel worried #dcpsturtle #dcpslifeskills #dcpscore #dcpslotc
Here are some of our year 3 children learning about speech and practising how to use inverted commas correctly#dcpsturtle #dcpsenglish #dcpscore
Year 3 had a fantastic STEM week last week learning about light and dark #dcpscore #dcpsturtle #dcpsstem
Over the last few weeks the nursery children have been exploring the changes that occur in autumn by going on a leaf hunt and exploring our autumn tuff trays. They have made their own leaf pictures as well as created a their own autumn wreaths and scarecrows to keep the birds from eating the seeds we are planting next week (but don’t worry we will be making our own bird feeders too).
We have begun learning about harvest and why we celebrate this festival by listening to the story of the very helpful hedgehog. We have loved learning our new harvest songs and exploring a range of fruits and vegetables that the farmers have picked especially for us! #dcpscaterpillar #dcpseyfs #dcps30hours #dcpsstem #dcpsre
In PE, Reception loved playing some of our fun agility games to develop their speed and coordination. Cups and cones, sharks in the water and the new game ‘toilet’ were firm favourites this week. They are becoming so confident moving in different ways and at different speeds as well as working in teams. #dcpsEYFS #dcpsladybird #dcpsbutterfly #dcpsPE
Reception had another fantastic trip to the woods on Wednesday. We collected and observed different types of leaves and even made our own leaf wands (or leaf kebabs as Mrs Clark referred to them as!) We also discovered ‘giant dinosaur footprints’ and showed no fear climbing trees. #dcpsEYFS #dcpsladybird #dcpsbutterfly #dcpsLOTC
Year 4 continued with their British Inventors DT unit today, learning all about reinforced concrete. We were amazed to learned that it’s inventor was W.B Wilkinson who was a plasterer from Newcastle! We had great fun trying out various structures to see how reinforcing them made them stronger. We then put our knowledge to the test by trying build structures from newspaper and tape that would hold a dictionary, some were more successful than others. #dcpselephant #dcpsdt #dcpscore
Typical Friday afternoon! Took four photos and I still couldn’t get them all looking! 😂 Your kids are just fantastic! 💪🔭🤝🎖✊🙏🌈💜🥰
Well done 👏 xx Simon Hall
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Year 5 have been learning about Roman Numerals in their Maths lessons. They had to make given numbers using lolly sticks, then answer questions about numbers and dates. #dcpsdolphin #dcpswhale #dcpsmaths #dcpscore
Year 5 enjoyed their Maths outdoors earlier in the week. Their focus was place value and timetables. They had to answer lots of questions; run around lots if their number was the answer to the question and they managed to win lots of dojos too! #dcpsdolphin #dcpswhale #dcpslotc #dcpsmaths #dcpscore
Year 5 plotted the distances of the planets using the correct scale. They had to use both their Maths and Science skills to work out how far away their planet was from the sun. #dcpscore #dcpsstem #dcpsmaths #dcpslotc #dcpsdolphin
Some great stuff from Y4 this week around developing our own ‘Mental Health Tool Kit’. Taking to someone, mediation, exercise and fresh air are some of the suggestions from your children that help keep their mind healthy. 💜 #dcpspshe
Mrs Hammill’s hardworking helpers! #straighttobadge 🙏💜🥰 #dcpsdolphin
Zara Livermore xx
Trudi Gilhespie
My niece is a teacher there mrs Lynsey Clark lush photo xxx
Handwriting and presentation immaculate across all subjects. #straighttobadge 💪💜🥰 # dcpscore #DCPStiger
Charlene Harvey ❤
What a fantastic stay and play session we had in nursery yesterday, we were so busy we only took a couple of photos! Thank you to all who came, it was lovely to have you in school and great to have the opportunity to share the children’s hard work with you. #dcpscaterpillar #dcpspshe
Today the Dragons set their butterflies free. We have had them in our classroom for two weeks and have loved watching them grow from tiny caterpillars, into their chrysalis and then seeing them emerge into beautiful butterflies 🦋. #dcpsdragon #dcpsstem #dcpslifeskills #dcpscore
Elephants started their DT week and we are learning all about British Inventors. The start we found out all about the invention of the telephone. We have fun looking at different types of telephone and we’re stunned that you actually use a dial to enter someone’s number, rather than just a touch screen. We also acted out the first type of communication device by being speakers and copper wire. We also investigated string telephones. Next we found out about the World Wide Web and were amazed at what websites used to look like, no lovely pictures and easy to use menus! #dcpselephant #dcpsdt #dcpscore
Elephants loved their STEM week and are now experts in classification keys and using them to sort and identify species. We finished the week by thinking about environmental dangers living things might face, including endangered species. We talked about what we could to help the environment and came up with some fantastic ideas. #dcpselephant #dcpsstem #dcpscore
This half term Year 4 have been learning a spy style dance for their dance unit. They have been amazing at working together to develop a routine, thinking about formation, freeze frames and follow the leader. #dcpselephant #dcpspe #dcpscore
Elephants have absolutely loved their ukulele sessions this half term. They have worked hard to learn chords and use them to play different songs. We are currently learning a much loved classic, keep an eye out for our performance! #dcpselephant #dcpsmusic #dcpscore
Elephants have been working on their tenses this week. We worked hard to sort verbs into the past and present tense, we then applied our knowledge to play a game and see if we could beat our friend to the finish! #dcpselephant #dcpsenglish #dcpscore
Year 4 Giraffes most recent Musical performance! Can you name the tune? #dcpsgiraffe #dcpsmusic #dcpscore
The Dinos are loving art week this week and are now pattern experts. Yesterday they explored regular and irregular patterns before putting what they learned into practice today to create lots of different patterns to fill in a hand. Their imaginations were in overdrive and I was particularly impressed with how much care and time they took over perfecting their work.
#dcpsdinosaur #dcpscore #dcpsart
Year 4 Giraffes have thoroughly enjoyed their music lessons with Mr Brown this week, we have been learning new chords and have started to use these to play different tunes, stay tuned for our most recent musical performance! #dcpsgiraffe #dcpsmusic #dcpscore
After a lot of hard work and determination, we have a new member of the 45 club! #dcpsyear4 #dcpsgiraffe #dcpselephant #dcpsmaths #dcpscore
Year 4 Giraffes have been busy today thinking about our tenses. We were able to apply our knowledge of past and present tense to play a game, we had to try and beat our partners while changing the tense of verbs from past to present tense! #dcpsgiraffe #dcpsenglish #dcpscore
Today was time for our butterflies to be released. We have loved watching them grow from tiny caterpillars, encase themselves in chrysalis and then seeing them emerge as butterflies. One was very keen to explore the great outdoors and flew straight out, the others needed a little coaxing and encouragement. #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsstem #dcpslifeskills #dcpscore
Girls Football Fun Day!
Please see below a link advertising a free girl’s football fun day for girls aged 5-9 years of age that will take place at John Spence Community High School on Tuesday 26th October 10-3pm.
Please follow the information on the link to sign up if your child is interested.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_aVjRkfEbnPI4-ldof4tvRKct_vBRI7yrS3eV-X7MllEA3Q/viewform?usp=s...
Miss Whalen
Free Girls Football Fun Day - John Spence CHS
docs.google.com
Newcastle United Foundation Girls Football Fun Day aimed at girls aged 5-9 years old (Tuesday 26th October 10-3pm) Please complete the following registration form to participate in our Girls only Fun Day at John Spence Community High School In the event that my daughter is injured while attending a....Brilliant afternoon biking for Y6!! #dcpspe #dcpscore #DCPStiger
Ross Howe
Faye Grant Reay our Harry x
Tony Hasnip
Fantastic xx
It was World Mental Health Day on Sunday 10th October. All week your children have been looking at what Mental Health is and what we can do to look after ourselves to keep our mind healthy. Reception have been looking at learning how to manage strong feelings and where we can go for help. 💜 #dcpspshe
The Dinos love using the Kaligo app to practice their letter and number formations. We will be joining our writing using a cursive style in no time. Great enthusiasm.
#dcpsdinosaur #dcpsenglish #dcpscore
Year 5 had a visit from some of the Newcastle Eagles basketball players yesterday. They discussed the importance of health and fitness with us, played exercise games and worked in the classrooms with us. The effort and excitement from the children was amazing! #dcpswhale #dcpspe #dcpsdolphin #dcpscore
This week in nursery we have been exploring Autumn and harvest festival.
While exploring autumn we talked about the change in weather, what happens to some trees, made clay hedgehogs and explored various autumnal vegetables.
With Alexander ( the puppet) we talked about how the harvest festival is all about helping others. We helped him to think of ways to be a better friend and we all agreed having kind hands in Nursery is important! We have spent the week helping our friends and talking about how to help others in our lives. What a kind group of children we have in Nursery #dcpscaterpillar #dcpsre #dcpspshe #dcpslifeskills #dcpsmaths #dcpsstem
It’s Badge City here at Denbigh! A couple of straight to badges and one has even pulled the double! Two badges given at once! Your children continue to inspire us every single day. 💪🔭🤝🎖✊🙏🌈🥰💜
Donna Palmer
Abbie Johnsen there she is
Wow! Two badges, thats my boy ❤
Today the Dinos talked about ways we can make ourselves feel good when we feel one of the unpleasant emotions such as angry, sad or lonely. The general consensus is that a hug is our number one choice followed by doing an activity with someone else. I guess the Dinos just love being around others ❤️ #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsworldmentalhealth #dcpscore #dcpslifeskills
Yesterday afternoon Year 4 discussed mental health as part of World Mental Health Day. We talked about good and not so good feelings, why we might feel this way and what we could do to help each each other and ourselves. We then used our ideas to create a self care toolkit, including talking to our friends, exercising and relaxing. #dcpsElephants #dcpslifeskills #dcpscore
The Whales had an amazing STEM lesson outside, using their knowledge of the solar system to plot how far away the planets are from the sun. The children had to show the distance relative to the size of a toilet roll square! They all enjoyed it and showed amazing teamwork skills! Well done Whales #dcpswhale #dcpsstem #dcpslotc #dcpscore
Discord. Some of our parents have kindly alerted us to this online chat facility that children are accessing through things like Roblox. Please take the time to make yourself of the potential dangers to children. #dcpspshe #dcpscore #dcpscomputing
James Fordham
Please meet our Year 1 School Counsellors.
#dcpspolarbear #dcpspanda #dcpscore
Toyah Farnworth
Ahh our gorgeous girl 💕. Well done to both 👏😀
PT.2. We have had a busy, fun filled few weeks here in Reception so we thought we would show you what we have been getting up to! Rhyming words, pattern, growing and emotions to name but a few our topics! #dcpsladybird #dcosbutterfly #dcpsEYFS #dcpscore
We have had a busy, fun filled few weeks here in Reception so we thought we would show you what we have been getting up to! Rhyming words, pattern, growing and emotions to name but a few our topics! #dcpsladybird #dcosbutterfly #dcpsEYFS #dcpscore
In PE this week, we focused on agility during our warm up games. Starting and stopping quickly and changing direction during our Cups and Cones game. We then looked at how animals move and were given a specific animal to create a dance representation of them. The children were fabulous at demonstrating their movements and even showed their friends in front of the class. #dcpsladybird #dcpsbutterfly #dcpsEYFS #dcpspe
Boom… straight to badge! He looks pretty pleased with himself and so he should be! We’re proud of you and so is Miss Stephenson judging by the amount of stickers she’s plastered all over you! 💜