Friday 13 February 2026 Design Technology Spring 1 This half term the children have completed some wonderful projects in Design and Technology!

Thursday 12 February 2026 Art Week Spring 1 This half term the children enjoyed a week full of exciting art. Early Years explored the work of Mondrian whilst Year 1 children created prints in the style of Paul Klee by mixing and creating their own secondary colours. In Year 2 Natalie Pascoe inspired beautiful seaside landscapes and Year 3 created mixed media art linked to their Stone Age topic. In Year 4 the children developed their drawing skills as they created their own still life pictures in the style of Morandi. We were all blown away by the children's enthusiasm and creativity.

Friday 6 February 2026 Reception's first school trip On Monday 26th January, Reception went on our very first school trip to the Discovery Museum. Our focus was finding out about transport and our local area. We enjoyed looking around the museum and taking part in a Beep, Beep, Here we go workshop, exploring different artefacts. We saw lots of boats which inspired our learning for the rest of the week. Thank you to the parents and grandparents who joined us to make our first trip a success.

Friday 6 February 2026 Piccolo Music Sessions This half term our wonderful early years children have enjoyed 6 weeks of Piccolo sessions with Hattie and Amy. The session are lively and full of fun, with a strong focus on communication and language and expressive arts. During song time, the children have sang along enthusiastically, copying actions, learning new words, and expressing themselves with confidence. They have enjoyed exploring a variety of instruments, taking turns to play, listen, and respond to different sounds and rhythms. Smiles, laughter and enthusiasm have been evident each week as the children have joined in together, showing excitement, creativity, and a real love for music. Check out the Piccolo website to sing some songs at home with your little ones. Piccolo Music | Catchy Songs for Singing, Playing and Learning

Friday 6 February 2026 Early Years Yoga Early Years are have begun their 10-week yoga programme with Julie from Geordie Yoga Kids. Our yoga sessions are full of fun, imagination, and excitement as the children are guided through a story using movement and yoga poses. Through storytelling, communication, and language, the children eagerly join in, copying actions, sharing ideas, and expressing themselves with confidence. Joy fills the room as the children became animals, characters, and adventurers, completely engaged in the story. The children have been super excited throughout the sessions so far, showing great enthusiasm and creativity while developing their listening and communication skills.This page is awaiting content

Tuesday 9 December 2025 Christmas begins in Early Years

Tuesday 25 November 2025 Remembrance Day We started our week with a special Remembrance Day assembly to remember those that have served in the armed forces. We learnt that originally, Remembrance Day commemorated Armistice Day and the end of the First World War, but has subsequently become a memorial day for all those that have lost their lives in any war. We also found out that there are actually four different coloured poppies, red, white, black and purple. We explored what each one represents.

Friday 21 November 2025 Stone Age in Year 3 For History on our Doorstep, Year 3 have been learning about Pre-History. We have kick started our learning this week by learning all about the three different eras of the Stone Age; Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic before we move onto the Bronze and Iron Age in coming weeks.

Tuesday 18 November 2025 Early Years Autumn Fun

Tuesday 18 November 2025 An Awesome Autumn in Year 2 so far... Year 2 Autumn

Monday 17 November 2025 Art Week Autumn 2 We had a fantastic start to this half term with Art and DT week. The children across school enjoyed learning about new artists and appraising their work. Early Years created lovely Kandinsky style art to brighten up their outdoor area and Year 1 learned how to colour mix primary colours to create art work inspired by Jasper Johns. In Year 2 the illustrator Wayne Anderson was the inspiration behind their beautiful Tin Forest sketches and Year 3 built on their colour mixing and learned to create both tertiary colours and tones and applied this to their Piccasso inspired final pieces. Year 4 learned about local artist Norman Cornish and British artist Lowry whilst they focussed on using a foreground, middleground and background in their work.

Thursday 13 November 2025 STEM Week Just before half term our school blasted off into STEM Week, and what an amazing adventure it was! Each year group from EYFS to Year 4 focused on a different planet, discovering fascinating facts and completing all sorts of exciting activities.

Friday 20 June 2025 A Sporty Summer so far at Archibald...

Friday 6 June 2025 Art Week in Year 1 Year 1 have been getting creative during Art week. We have been inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's The Sunflowers as well as creating our own structures in the style of Alexander Calder.

Friday 6 June 2025 Art and DT week in Year 3!

Tuesday 3 June 2025 Year 4 Art Week We have been reading the book 'Katie's Picture Show' by James Mayhew and learnt about an artist called Henri Rousseau and his famous painting called 'Surprised'. We discussed the different moods created in the paintings and also completed an artist study about him. Look at how creative we have been...

Friday 23 May 2025 Rise Forest School sessions This half term, Reception have been taking part in Forest school sessions with Dom from the RISE charity. We loved these sessions. We each did different activities including:

Thursday 22 May 2025 Children's Cancer Run 2025 Thank you for everyone who ran at the Children's Cancer Run 2025. A great day and all for a good cause!

Friday 16 May 2025 The farm comes to Nursery Last Friday, the farm came to visit Nursery. The children met a chicken, a guinea pig and a rabbit. They helped to brush a goat and a sheep. They showed off all of our school values of caring, curious and courageous. The grown ups loved meeting the animals too.