Last day of term – Thursday 17 December! INSET day on Friday 18 December, children not in school.

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Redwood Class UFO Sightings!

17th December 2020

Year 6 wrote some truly out of this world newspaper reports based on UFO landings around Aycliffe Drive School.

Hogwarts comes to Aycliffe

17th December 2020

The children really enjoyed our Harry Potter day where they made potions and took part in Harry Potter crafts. After break they went on to the playground and took part in a game of Quidditch where Gryffindor were the winners. They finished off with watching the movie and choosing sweets off the sweet trolley. The […]

Newspaper Reports

16th December 2020

All the children completed their own newspaper reports, remembering to use the past tense and reported speech as well as appropriate punctuation.

Gingerbread Houses

14th December 2020

The children have been busy decorating their own Gingerbread Houses.  I hope you agree they look amazing.  

HILS Christmas Cards

14th December 2020

I just wanted to say thank you very much, on behalf of my mother Phyllis, for the delightful Xmas card that you made. HILS, the meals service that delivers my mother’s daily meal, gave her your colourful card today. It made her day! She was so pleased to receive the card because she is 95 […]

Mr Twit’s dirty beard.

10th December 2020

In Laurel, we have been working on the Twits, looking at character description. We have used interesting vocabulary to describe Mr Twit inside and out. We have focused on particularly, his dirty beard.