As part of our Rainbow Day celebrations, Class 3 dressed in bright colours, shared stories celebrating differences and made fingerprint rainbows that we will display to support diversity.
Year 3 enjoyed a fabulous afternoon today. Rob from ZooLab came to visit us as part of our rainforests topic to show us different animals that call the rainforest their home. We began by meeting some animals who live on the forest floor, before moving up through the layers all the way up to the emergent layer. Some animals we handled included a millipede, a giant land snail, a snake, and a cockroach.
The children were so brave, some giving the animals a stroke, some holding the animals, and some just having a good look! They listened very intently to what Rob had to say, and asked some really interesting questions. Zoolab really brought our rainforests topic to life!
‘TO GIVE, TO HELP, TO BE KIND AND CREATE HAPPINESS’
A new project has been introduced into the school
To Give, To Help, To Be Kind and Create Happiness.
The Giving Project volunteers made special ‘Tooth Fairy Door Hangers’ for all of the children in Year 1.
The children volunteers enjoyed making these little gifts so that when the children lose a tooth, they can put the door hanger on their bedroom door handle, to help the tooth fairy find their tooth under their pillow.
The gifts were greatly received by the Year 1 children and the teachers and Mrs. Bingham were very proud of the Giving Project volunteer children for being so kind.
Year 4 have been working hard this year on their Times Tables – some even choosing to attend Times Tables Club after school on a Thursday.
Each session starts with a bit of healthy competition – playing each other on TTRS! Then we finish off by getting up and moving, playing times table games or dancing along to BBC Supermovers!
Keep Fit Club had great fun this week as Miss Ingoe brought in a giant parachute!
We worked as a team to lift the parachute in time, creating a mushroom and played games like cat and mouse and shark attack! There was a lot of laughter 😂
We are very proud of our inclusive culture where every child is valued and identity and individuality are celebrated. Our children thrive in an exciting environment and learn to value their own culture and beliefs while respecting those of others. As part of diversity week Mr Wilson held a special assembly; we can’t wait to see all our children wearing rainbow colours on Friday.
Year 1 have had a fun packed day at Northumberland Zoo today. We looked closely at some minibeasts and watched a birds of prey display. We explored the zoo, wandering through ‘Wallaby Walkabout’ and ‘Lemur Woods’. The children saw many animals that they had not encountered before, such as capybaras, lemurs, tapirs, otters, snow leopards and prairie dogs. The children were particularly interested in watching the fruit bats at feeding time!
Last Thursday a group of year 4 and 5 girls represented our school in a football festival held at Castle View Enterprise Academy. We took part in football coaching drills followed by four matches, in which we won 3 games out of 4! The girls all played fantastic, had lots of fun, practised their football skills and behaved brilliantly. They even came up with a team celebration for each goal they scored!
Year 3 worked in groups this week in Commando Joe’s to create the tallest structure they could in the time limit. They had 1 minute to discuss their strategy first, before having 4 minutes to build it. It had to remain free-standing for 10 seconds after the timer ran out. Children showed excellent resilience, teamwork and problem solving! Well done Year 3!
Some of our year 5/6’s recently attended the South Tyneside Quadkids tournament at Monkton stadium. They were truly amazing! We’ve just got the results back and one if our teams has qualified for the regional finals. Well done everyone!
