Potential change regarding the reopening of school.

3rd January 2021A Best
Dear parents and carers,
We apologise for the short notice and inconvenience this may cause but it is very necessary that we inform you of some potential change regarding the reopening of school. We have been liaising with staff and the LA across the weekend but in line with union advice there is the possibility that learning will move to an online platform for some pupils from Tuesday.
The school will remain open for the children of key workers and vulnerable children. Could we ask that you contact school at your earliest convenience to inform us if you will require your child to be in school should we need to move to remote learning from Tuesday.
Thank you,
Kind regards
Andrea Willis ,          Beth Foster
Head Teacher,          Chair of Governors

School Open

16th November 2020A Best
We are please to inform you that we are able to open for reception, year 1 and year 2 this morning and are ready to welcome pm nursery and 30 hour children from this afternoon.
Once again we thank you for understanding.

Logging into Google Classroom on an ipad.

10th November 2020A Best

As we continue to support some of our children who are learning remotely, we would like to share a new video in our Remote Learning Support video series. The aim of this video is to support children and parents in logging onto the Google Drive app on an ipad.

As always if there are any questions please contact the school office.

Thank you for your ongoing understanding and commitment.

Mr Best

Computing Lead

2D Shapes and Symmetry

8th November 2020R Dixon

 

We have all been working so hard in Year 2.  We have been learning all about 2D shapes and symmetry.  We have been naming shapes and counting the number of sides and vertices.  Vertices are where 2 sides meet.  We have also been finding lines of symmetry in these shapes and improving our scissor skills too!  Ask your child about which shapes they have been learning.  They might be  able to say: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon and octagon!

 

Year 2 Leavers e-yearbook

16th July 2020F Frazer

Hello year 2, well here we are… The day you would have left Biddick Hall Infant and Nursery School.

Here is your e-yearbook to celebrate your time at our school, there is a video version which includes a soundtrack (Keep watching when the song stops as it starts again after a few seconds). There is also a PDF version for you to download, print and keep forever if you wish. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of the children in year 2 and your families… we wish you the very best of luck for your future, stay safe and have a wonderful summer from all of the staff at Biddick Hall Infants xx

Click on the link below to watch the video and soundtrack (Don’t forget keep watching when the music stops…it starts again after a few seconds)

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Click here to download the book as a PDF to read and Print (No Soundtrack)

Home Learning Week 1

25th March 2020F Frazer

Home learning plans for this week are now available to view via your child’s home learning page. Plans for the week will be uploaded every Wednesday. We hope you enjoy working through the activities, the teachers can’t wait to see your ‘handed in’ work on purple mash.

Have fun!

School Work Packs

19th March 2020Gemma Newton

Your child will receive a work pack today to be completed during the school closure. If your child is absent from school and you are currently self isolating please arrange for someone to collect a pack from the school office ASAP. Thank you.

We’re Going On a Bear Hunt

3rd March 2020E Heaton

Our Talk for Writing text this term has been ”We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” By Micheal Rosen

The nursery children traveled to Boldon lodge for their own bear hunt. We walked through the forest ‘stumble trip stumble trip’ following the bears footprints. We walked through a real snow storm ‘hooo whoo’ and found a bear on the train.

We went back to the lodge and warmed ourselves up with marshmallows around the log burner. We made a bear decoration and were visited by Boldon Bear. We learnt a new song that Boldon Bear taught up ”Teddy bear Teddy bear turn around”

 

 

 

 

 

Beamish

14th January 2020F Frazer

Last Thursday our year 2 classes had a great visit to Beamish. We went there as part of history week where we were learning about changes in transport over time and influential people such as the ‘Wright brothers’ who invented the motorised plane. It flew for the first time on December 17th 1903. Without inventors like the ‘wright brothers’ we wouldn’t be able to travel as far or as fast as we do today.

Beamish houses a variety of different types of transport form the early 1900s and beyond. We has a brilliant time finding out about the ‘Penny Farthing’ bike. We learned that it got its name as the large ‘front wheel’ resembled the size of a 1900s ‘penny’ while smaller back wheel resembled the 1900s ‘farthing’. It was very tall and would have been difficult and uncomfortable to ride.

We rode the tram around the museum, they’re very beautiful inside, though the seats were wooden and rather hard. Children even got the chance to be ‘conductor’ ringing the bell to signal we were ready for the off!

We were fascinated by the large ‘limousine’ style car, the horn was really hard to press and made a funny noise. We could fit lots of people in the back!

Children took a ride on an old bus. The seats went down the sides of the bus rather than one in front of the other like we have today. We even stopped off to visit the horses who pulled carriages, another interesting form of early transport.

We visited the 1900s school and found the teacher very strict! She told us to sit up straight and write on slate boards. We also couldn’t resist picking up a little treat from the sweet shop in the 1900s town. What a great day had by all!

 

Armistice Day 2019

11th November 2019F Frazer

This morning we took a group of representatives form our school to the cenotaph in the West Park to pay our respects to those who have fought and lost their lives in wars of the past and more recent conflicts. The children who came along were brilliant role models for our school. Their behaviour and respectfulness were exemplary.

We were joined by children form other schools, veterans who served our country, the Mayor, members of other uniformed services and of course members of the public. It was a lovely service led by Father Mervyn.

Biddick Hall Infant and Nursery School remembers…

Lest we forget.