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• Friday 9 June 2023 Youth Club on Wednesdays Inspire Youth are holding a FREE Youth Club on Wednesday evenings for all that are interested!
• Monday 5 June 2023 Year 3 Visit Kirkley Hall Zoo
• Monday 5 June 2023 Reading Programme in Year 3 Year three are taking part in a very exciting reading programme again this year and have enjoyed their first session. We read a story about a girl who wanted to be an engineer and, even though she didn’t always succeed the first time, she never gave up. We learned that it is normal to make mistakes and that they can help us to learn.
• Monday 5 June 2023 Year 2 Science Club @ Centre for Life
• Monday 5 June 2023 Dog's Trust Visit
• Monday 5 June 2023 Creation Story in Year 2
• Monday 5 June 2023 Commando Joe's @ Canning Street
• Monday 5 June 2023 Forest School Update - Summer 1
• Monday 5 June 2023 Forest School Update - Spring Term
• Monday 5 June 2023 Attendance Trophy Winners - Friday 26th May 2023
• Monday 5 June 2023 Caught Reading Winner - 26th May 2023
• Monday 5 June 2023 Hot Chocolate with the Head - 26.5.23
• Monday 5 June 2023 Racism Workshop for Parents Come and join us on Wednesday 7th June at 2.30pm for a parent workshop surrounding bullying and racism.
• Friday 26 May 2023 Snap bands
• Friday 26 May 2023 May 2023
• Monday 15 May 2023 Safeguarding Newsletters - Summer 1
• Monday 15 May 2023 Hot Chocolate with the Head - 12.5.23
• Monday 15 May 2023 ESOL Course for Parents
• Wednesday 10 May 2023 Forest School Update - Spring 2
• Wednesday 10 May 2023 Fledglings Fruit Kebabs!
• Wednesday 10 May 2023 Coronation Celebrations Here are some pictures of our fabulous celebrations for King Charles III's coronation on Friday!
• Wednesday 10 May 2023 Attendance Trophy Winners - Friday 5th May 2023
• Wednesday 10 May 2023 Parent Cooking Class - Week 1 - Healthier Pizzas
• Wednesday 10 May 2023 Caught Reading Winner - 5th May 2023
• Wednesday 10 May 2023 Attendance - Hot Chocolate with the Head
• Tuesday 25 April 2023 Free Cooking Class for Parents
• Tuesday 28 March 2023 Easter Raffle
• Friday 24 March 2023 Caught Reading Winner - 24th March 2023
• Wednesday 8 March 2023 Dinosaur Fun in Reception! Reception have LOVED learning all about dinosaurs recently in our theme.
• Wednesday 8 March 2023 STEM Week in Fledglings Class In Fledglings we learned that the world is getting hotter through global warming. We used every coat in the class to cover our friend to show how hot it is for our Earth. We then made our very own Earth toast to see how global warming impacts our planet. We also conducted experiments with ice to see how this can affect the animals around us. We decided we wanted to do something to help! We decided using recycled items in our class to create art would be a good start. We can now proudly display the art instead of it going in to landfill. Finally we took on the challenge of creating our very own wind turbines which are a much better way of producing electricity.
• Wednesday 8 March 2023 Forest School Update - Spring 1
• Wednesday 8 March 2023 Family Puppet Weekend
• Wednesday 8 March 2023 5Red's Busy Half Term
• Wednesday 8 March 2023 Fantastic Physical Skills in The Nest
• Wednesday 8 March 2023 Getting Messy in The Nest Sensory play is very important for the children in the Nest and we engage in lots of activities which stimulate our senses. Our favourite type of sensory play in the Nest is the Messy kind! We spend lots of time playing with gelli baff, foam, gloop, rice, spaghetti, cereal and anything else that we think the children will have fun exploring.
• Wednesday 8 March 2023 Chinese New Year in Nursery
• Tuesday 7 March 2023 Dentist Visit in Year 3
• Tuesday 7 March 2023 Lantern Parade - World Book Day
• Tuesday 7 March 2023 Sports Leaders 2023
• Tuesday 7 March 2023 Non-Uniform Day for Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal
• Tuesday 7 March 2023 Attendance Trophy Winners - Friday 3rd March 2023
• Tuesday 7 March 2023 Caught Reading Winner! March 2023
• Tuesday 7 March 2023 World Book Day 2023
• Tuesday 7 March 2023 World Book Day 2023 What a wonderful time we had yesterday for World Book Day!
• Tuesday 31 January 2023 Important - Strike Action
• Wednesday 25 January 2023 Vision for Education Teaching Assistant Training
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 The School Council Tackle Litter
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Year 2 Anti-Bullying Year 2 really enjoyed our work on anti-bullying. They learned about what bullying is and how it might look. They sensibly took part in role play activities where we considered what it would be like if we were bullied and nobody helped. All of the children agreed that the person being bullied would feel very sad. We then discussed ways we could help someone who was being bullied and demonstrated this through role play. The children came up with great ideas such as:
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Nursery Animal Visit
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Reception Read The Gruffalo
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Forest School - Winter Update Well, Winter certainly let us know that it had arrived! Not only did we have ice and snow but we also had some very, very, cold days with temperatures well below zero! BBBBRRRRRRRRRRR!! It was SO COLD!
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Flyers DT Week - Pneumatic Toys
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Forest School Update - Autumn 2 ‘Too magical to describe!’ is what one child said to his teacher after visiting Forest School this term.
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Year 6 Visit Ouseburn - World War II
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Year 5 Science Club Year 5 really enjoyed visiting The Centre for Life last term for Science club.
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Flyers Visit Tynemouth Aquarium
• Tuesday 24 January 2023 Phunky Foods Club - Easy Peasy Pizza
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Family Link App Here is some information about the Family Link App by Google.
• Wednesday 21 December 2022 Northumbria Police Safeguarding Update December 2022
• Tuesday 20 December 2022 Exciting Football Opportunity
• Tuesday 13 December 2022 Year 2 are Visited by an Owl
• Tuesday 13 December 2022 Year 5's Anti Bullying Mural
• Tuesday 13 December 2022 Year 5's Adopted Sloth!
• Tuesday 13 December 2022 Police Visit - Nursery
• Tuesday 13 December 2022 Reception Owl Visit
• Tuesday 13 December 2022 School Clubs - URGENT Due to the cold weather, we have made the decision to end after school clubs until after the Christmas holidays.
• Monday 12 December 2022 Winter Holiday Activities January 2023
• Thursday 1 December 2022 Canning Street FC Win!
• Wednesday 30 November 2022 Flu Vaccine Drop-in Session
• Friday 18 November 2022 After School Club Feedback
• Friday 18 November 2022 Children in Need 2022
• Thursday 17 November 2022 Brush Up Visit in Year 2 Last week Class 2 Red were lucky enough to have a visit from the ‘Brush Up’ team. The children took part in a carousel of activities about taking care of our teeth.
• Thursday 17 November 2022 Dentist Visit in Year 1 The children enjoyed a visit from dental students who talked to them about which foods are good and bad for our teeth and read them a story all about going to the dentist. We practiced brushing teeth using soft toys and rubber dentures. We dressed up as dentists and practiced checking each other's teeth with a mirror. We also learnt what time of day to brush our teeth and how long for. The children thoroughly enjoyed it.
• Thursday 17 November 2022 Year 4 Update All the children have settled in well to Year 4. We even visited the Forest School recently to help us work together as a team. We found bugs, explored the flowers and created dens! We had a great time.
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Forest School - Autumn 2
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Autumn Days in Year 1
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Marmalade Sandwiches in Year 1 We have started reading Paddington and the children could not wait to try marmalade, so we tried some marmalade on bread this afternoon. They loved it and now understand why Paddington likes it so much.
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Year 3 Visit the Gurdwara Year 3 are studying Sikhism in Religious Education this term. With our community and school being so multicultural, it is important for all our children to learn about different religious groups. We walked to the Newcastle Gurdwara where Sikh people go to worship. The children listened to some authentic music and asked lots of questions about the beautiful building. They had lots of fun learning about Sikh people and what they believe. They even got some juice and biscuits to fuel them for the walk back to school!
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Year 5's Trip to NUCastle
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Reception Go To Forest School
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Reception Go To Forest School
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Whickham Thorns Trip
• Saturday 12 November 2022 The Scarecrow's Wedding
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Reception Remembrance Day
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Nursery Celebrate Baby Bear's Birthday Recently, Nursery have been learning all about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We all had great fun celebrating Baby Bear's birthday. We especially enjoyed decorating and eating his birthday cake. It was delicious!
• Saturday 12 November 2022 Bulb Planting
• Wednesday 2 November 2022 Year 6 - Settling In Year 6 have settled back into school life really well after the summer holidays. So far, we’ve enjoyed starting a new book in English called Alex Rider: Stormbreaker and the children are really enjoying it! They have produced some amazing writing which you can see below.
• Wednesday 2 November 2022 Year 2 Make Pinocchio Year 2 have really enjoyed learning about everyday materials in Science. This week we applied our knowledge of materials to help us create our own version of Pinocchio.
• Wednesday 2 November 2022 Flyers - Settling In This week the Flyers have been reading ‘The Pirate Cruncher’ and reading how to use different conjunctions.
• Wednesday 2 November 2022 Fledglings Grow a Dinosaur! We planted some strange seeds and the next day we found that something had made a huge mess outside. We found an egg and predicted that maybe it was from a dinosaur! The next day the egg was gone. Have we really grown a dinosaur
• Friday 14 October 2022 Reception Settling In This term, Reception have been learning how to use our toys and share with our new friends in our classrooms and outside in our garden.
• Friday 14 October 2022 Settling In - The Colour Monster We have all settled really well into Fledglings class and have been learning to share our feelings. We worked together to create our very own feelings potions inspired by our work on the book
• Friday 14 October 2022 Copy of: E Safety Questionnaire - Outcomes Recently, we sent out a questionnaire about E Safety. Thank you for completing it.
• Friday 14 October 2022 E Safety Questionnaire - Outcomes
• Friday 14 October 2022 Year 5 - Eygptians
• Friday 14 October 2022 Year One - Autumn Term Welcome to Year 1!
• Tuesday 11 October 2022 Reception Places You can now apply for a Reception place for your child. Please visit the website below and submit an application before 15th January 2023:
• Monday 10 October 2022 Nursery Read The Three Little Pigs This week we have been listening to the story of the Three Little Pigs. Ibrahim even drew a picture of a pig. We have had great fun acting out the story!
• Friday 7 October 2022 Forest School - Autumn Term Forest School is back and its ‘bigger and better’ than last year!
• Wednesday 5 October 2022 Reception - Pattern Making
• Wednesday 5 October 2022 The Nest Go To Forest School The Nest children loved their first trip to Forest School! We met Mr McDonald in the garden and he showed the children around the digging area, pond and orchard. They enjoyed exploring and finding interesting natural objects like leaves, sticks and even some fruit which had fallen from one of the trees! Mr McDonald also hid some animal toys around the garden and the children went on a hunt to find them. They had a big surprise when they found a real animal… a frog!
• Wednesday 5 October 2022 Year 3 - Settling In Our Year 3 children have had a great start to this year. They have impressed everyone with their great attitude to school and their wonderful behaviour. Keep up the great work everyone.
• Wednesday 5 October 2022 Year 2 - Materials In science, Year 2 are really enjoying learning about everyday materials and their properties. So far we have looked at solids, liquids and gases and sorted different objects based on which category they would fit into.
• Wednesday 5 October 2022 Nursery - Settling In
• Wednesday 5 October 2022 Settling into The Nest The children have had a wonderful first few weeks in the Nest! They have enjoyed exploring the environment and have engaged in lots of exciting play activities. Our favourite activities are the messy ones! Some of the children have also been getting to know each other and we have seen some lovely friendships starting to grow.
• Monday 3 October 2022 Year 4 - Digestive System
• Tuesday 27 September 2022 Settling in - Year 3 Our Year 3 children have had a great start to this year. They have impressed everyone with their great attitude to school and their wonderful behaviour. Keep up the great work everyone.
• Monday 12 September 2022 Flu Campaign
• Wednesday 6 July 2022 Debating Champions! On 5th July, the Year 5 debating team took part in the annual debating competition between the schools in the West End Schools’ Trust at the Civic Centre. Our motion for debate was:
• Thursday 23 June 2022 Forest School Update - Summer 2
• Friday 27 May 2022 School Uniform
• Friday 27 May 2022 Art Week 2022 Thank you so much to all of the parents and children for their lovely contributions to Art Week 2022. We are so thrilled to have such budding artists! We hope you enjoy the paintings. Have a lovely half term.
• Friday 27 May 2022 Art Week Showcase This week at Canning Street has been Art Week. The children were tasked with painting our most iconic structures: The Seven Bridges of Newcastle.
• Tuesday 24 May 2022 North East Autism Society Workshops for Parents Do you have a child with Autism and would like some support Here is some information below from the North East Autism Society (NEAS). There are workshops or 1:1 support sessions available for both under 7s and over 7s.
• Tuesday 24 May 2022 Forest School Summer Term
• Wednesday 18 May 2022 Celebration Text Messages If your child does some amazing work in the classroom, we may text you to let you know. We think that it is so important that we celebrate successes here at Canning Street and would love to share them with you!
• Monday 16 May 2022 Drop Off Dear Parents
• Wednesday 23 March 2022 Watch the Seasons Change in Forest School It seems only recently we were braving the gales and snow out in Forest School. This week, however, has been beautiful and the children have had a wonderful time! Dens have been built, stories have been told, seeds have been planted and frogspawn has been spotted!
• Wednesday 23 March 2022 A Budding Author at Canning Street.... It is always lovely to see a Canning Street pupil displaying an amazing talent. I am very pleased to show off an epic tale of Ancient Greek drama, written by aspiring author Golden, from year five.
• Tuesday 15 March 2022 There's No Such Thing as a Gruffalo....Or Is There?
• Wednesday 9 March 2022 International Women's Day 2022 Yesterday, we celebrated International Women's Day in Year 6. We were lucky enough to be visited last week by MRs Christine Thompkins, who is currently president of a local branch of Soroptomist International - a global volunteer movement who advocates equality and human rights.
• Monday 7 March 2022 World Book Day 2022 - Photos! Dear Parents,
• Friday 4 March 2022 Read Write Inc. Dear Parents
• Tuesday 1 March 2022 Books Bags for Sale! We have spotted that several children are arriving at school without a book bag. This is a really part of our uniform kit list, as it means we can safely take home books, homework and letters.
• Wednesday 16 February 2022 Get Your Vaccine! Covid vaccines are highly recommended in the fight against the virus. There are several locations around Benwell you can get yours - please see the flyer attached.
• Tuesday 15 February 2022 Exciting Opportunity for Families Please see the flyer below for an exciting opportunity for families in Benwell over half term....
• Tuesday 8 February 2022 Secondary School Places As you may know, Newcastle is currently suffering from a significant lack of secondary school places, resulting in many families not obtaining their preferred choice of school.
• Tuesday 1 February 2022 Autism Support Hub The Autism Support Hub is an invaluable network in Newcastle that supports parents of children under 7 who have been diagnosed with Autism.
• Tuesday 25 January 2022 Staff Departures 25th January 2022
• Monday 24 January 2022 Important Letter From Mrs Herron Dear Parents
• Wednesday 12 January 2022 Covid Update January 2022 Dear Parents,
• Thursday 9 December 2021 Our Special Visitors.... This afternoon Year 2 and Fledglings 1 were lucky enough to be visited by Mr Wilson; a man with several special and very beautiful collection of pets....an Owl family!
• Wednesday 17 November 2021 Confirmed Covid Cases in School 17.11.21 Please read the letter below from Mrs Herron regarding Covid Cases in school
• Monday 15 November 2021 Canning Street children LOVE Forest School! As you may know, we are taking parts of our learning outdoors this year. Several of our children have spent time developing our garden (which used to resemble a jungle!) into a lovely space where fruit and vegetables are grown. Children have also been learning all about the nature around them, whilst using sticks, twigs, flowers and leaves to make models, crafts and even dens.
• Monday 8 November 2021 We LOVE Teaching at Canning Street! Although we spend a lot of our time working in other parts of the school, the Head Teachers still LOVE to get into class and work with our wonderful pupils. We think it's really important for us to teach, so we remember how much fun it is being a teacher.
• Tuesday 26 October 2021 Confirmed Covid Case 26.10.21 Dear Parent/Carer,
• Thursday 21 October 2021 What's going on in the Forest School? This week in our Forest School session, the children learned through a creative story about goblins. These creatures had created a wonderful village on our school field that was sadly flattened by a kind but terribly clumsy dragon. We asked the children to think about how they could help the goblins.
• Wednesday 20 October 2021 Fun in Farndale Park.... All Canning Street families are invited to a Family Fun Day taking place in Farndale park on Wednesday 27th October from 11am-2pm. Please see the flyer below for further information.
• Tuesday 12 October 2021 Learning to Write... This week, I have spent a little bit of time in Reception and I couldn't be more impressed with the way the children were working. For those of you who don't know our Reception room very well, it is entirely open plan which means the staff can set up lots of fascinating activities for the children to choose from. When I visited this week, the children were all having so much fun on the activity they had chosen - whether it was printing, constructing or playing in the small world area. Everyone was busy and the atmosphere was very calm and purposeful. Even better, the children were so excited to tell me what they were doing - what brilliant imaginations they have!
• Wednesday 6 October 2021 Prizes Awarded for Top Attenders I have a very happy blog entry to add today - we are awarding prizes to our top attenders of last year. We had 8 children who attended schoolevery single day, (Covid absences excluded) which is a fabulous achievement and shows an amazing dedication.
• Monday 4 October 2021 Parents Conduct - Polite Reminder Dear Parents,
• Wednesday 22 September 2021 Progress in the Garden... Hi everyone
• Tuesday 21 September 2021 Confirmed Covid Case 21.9.21 Please read the letter below from Mrs Herron
• Friday 17 September 2021 Confirmed Covid Case in School - 17.9.21 Please see the letter attached below.
• Wednesday 15 September 2021 Flu Immunizations - Important Dear Parents and Carers,
• Monday 13 September 2021 Confirmed Covid Case in School 13.9.21 Please read the attached letter carefully.
• Friday 10 September 2021 Lunch Reminders for Parents
• Thursday 9 September 2021 Fun in the Garden! The sun has been shining today and we have been outside picking raspberries and plums, part of our amazing fruit crop.It’s been a good year!The children have been picking the fruit themselves and taste testing!They enjoyed the plums especially.
• Wednesday 8 September 2021 Outdoor Learning Begins.... This year, partially inspired by Covid and the importance of fresh air, we have decided that outdoor learning will be a key feature of our curriculum offer for all children. We are very fortunate to have a beautiful little garden area with a shed, a covered area, benches and raised beds for growing.
• Tuesday 7 September 2021 Returning to School... Welcome to the first Blog entry from your Headteachers. Over the coming weeks, Mrs Herron, Mr Brown and Miss Wilson will take turns to add their entries and today it is my turn!
• Tuesday 31 August 2021 Back to School - some things to remember... Dear Parents,
• Tuesday 6 July 2021 Welcome to the NEW Canning Street website... Welcome to our new website

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