Year One came together to celebrate Pyjamarama with cosy blankets, hot chocolate and some of our favourite bedtime stories read by Miss Smith
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Class 4are learning about the famous palaeontologist Mary Anning this term in history. Today they recreated one of her famous fossil finds – the ithyosaur. The children estimated how long 5.2metres was and then used a trundle wheel to measure the distance out. They then used the Kapla blocks to build the likeness of the ithyosaur.
As part of our dimensions topic ‘War of The Worlds’ year 5 went on a trip to Eden Camp.
The children learnt how the modern history museum was originally a prisoner of war camp. They explored the the different huts which covered different aspect of the war, starting with the rise of the Nazi Party, Hitler and The Outbreak of War. Other topics include: Rationing, Evacuees, The Blitz, Air Raid, Animals at War and Women at War ect.
The trip allowed the children to deepen their understanding of history and the impact of WWI & WWII. Overall, they had a great day out with a few ice creams and gifts from the gift shop.
In Reception we have been getting ready to celebrate the Kings Coronation. The children have had a wonderful time changing our role play area into a castle, we are so excited 
A few weeks ago Boldon Library asked our eco-committee to create an eco-art project as part of their ‘Earth Day’ event. There would be a competition between some local schools.
Our eco-warriors rose to the challenge, they discussed what they wanted to make, collected the resources we would need and set about making some wonderful creations. And guess what?…WE WON!!
Gail and her colleagues visited our school to present the children with a certificate, trophy and prize! Well done to our fabulously creative eco-committee 👏🏼
How happy do our children look at the ‘star’ of the week assembly? They have worked so hard this week and it was great to hear all the amazing reason. 
Today Class 3 were fossil hunters, just like Mary Anning! The children have been learning about Mary Anning’s life and her discoveries. Today we found our own real fossils in the sand, we looked carefully at them and used adjectives to describe them. The children were amazed to find real fossilised shark teeth and poo!!
Class 3 have been learning about the palaeontologist Mary Anning as part of our topic ‘Jurassic Hunter’. We found out about the 5.2m long fossil that she discovered and estimated how long we thought that would be, then checked the length using a metre ruler and compared our estimates. We had great fun finding out how many of us it would take to make up the length of the fossil!
Year 4 have been making congratulations cards in DT! The cards were to say well done at Annabelle who won our class vote for class leader during our lessons on democracy in our Law and Order topic ! We learnt that a lever is a mechanism to create movement, and then we made a small practise lever. We then designed our own congratulations cards with a moving part. Then, we used our new skills to create a larger lever in our cards to create moving rainbows, stars, moons and planes etc. The children’s cards were really effective and they really enjoyed making them.
