Each year group posed a question to Rev. Paul relating to their current topic questions for R.E. Watch the video below to see his answers.
Look out for a special guest appearance from Maisie the dog too!
In PSHCE, Year 1 have been learning about relationships and friendships. After exploring what we think a good friend is and deciding how we think we can be good friends, we wrote our very own recipe for a good friend. It is lovely!
In geography, Year 1 have been exploring the question ‘why can’t penguins live near the equator?’.
We have investigated the features of hot and cold places and designed our own animals that are especially suited to living in either a hot or a cold place.
In Art, Year 1 have been looking at colours, particularly hot and cold colours.
We have created a colour wheel and labeled which colours are ‘hot’ and which are ‘cold’.
We have also made some handprints with paint that show we understand how we can mix primary colours together to make new secondary colours, purple, green and orange!
On Tuesday 10th November we celebrated World Science Day at West Boldon! Every class looked at a famous scientist linked to their topic.
Their experiment was to put Vaseline on one of their fingers and dip one finger with Vaseline and one finger without into cold water and describe the different feelings. We found that the finger without Vaseline felt cold in the water whereas the one with felt warmer and a bit different. We talked about the meaning of insulation, looked at James’ invention, described these feelings in our books and draw pictures of what the experiment looked like. They really enjoyed it.
Year 2 celebrated World Science Day with a tribute to a very famous, Victorian scientist.
Florence, as a child, followed her determination to become a nurse. She trained other nurses to go to the Crimean war and make the hospital clean, and care for wounded soldiers.
Florence worked long hours and would tend to the injured soldiers at night holding her lamp. She became known as The Lady with the Lamp. Florence wrote books on Nursing and is also credited for helping to popularise the pie chart.
Her revolutionary nursing earned her an award from Queen Victoria and her legacy serves to show much of what we now know about clean, organised hospital conditions today and is thanks to her hard work and research.
Florence Nightingale changed nursing forever. She is the real hero of Victorian science!
They created a fossil jar whereby jelly represented the soil and sweets represented the animal remains. Each day this week they will add a new layer of jelly to the jar representing how soil layers occur over time. They talked about how these fossils form and also made a zigzag book!
They quizzed and found out about some famous scientists and inventors. Then they completed a treasure hunt fact finding mission to answer questions about Faraday’s life and inventions. The children worked in pairs to move around the 2 classrooms looking for the answers and then presented it beautifully.
Year 6 looked at Charles Darwin to link to their topic on Evolution. They all created a factfile about him explaining why he is so important in his field.
What wonderful scientists we have at West Boldon!
This next term in Year 1 we are going to be reading ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers.
This was a favourite of ours in Reception and we cannot wait to start doing some fantastic work in our Literacy lessons!
We are going to be looking at writing lists, in particular a list of what might be in our suitcases if we were characters in the story. We are going to create some brilliant pieces of work this term.
Watch a reading of Lost and Found below:
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This week in Maths we were learning to use number lines. By using physical and visual number lines as well as coloured counters we were able to solve our questions. Well done Year 1!
Year 1 have been working on the Learning Challenge question: What can we learn about Christianity by visiting a church? this half term. Due to current restrictions, they have not been able to visit a church properly, however, Reverend Paul very kindly gave them a virtual tour of St Nicholas’ Church!
This week Year 1 wrote their own instructions on how to make jam sandwiches for their tea party!
Year 1/2 have enjoyed gymnastic session with Mr Gilmore this term. We have learnt about rolling and balancing. Even though we find it tricky we persevered and have really noticed how much better we are becoming.
