Before half term, 20 children from Year 5 attended a cricket competition at Castle View Academy. The children played well and developed their batting, bowling and fielding skills over the course of the day. All involved had a great time.
Year 6 have been creating their own ‘Scribblebots’ this week in science. They used a series circuit of a battery and motor which makes the bot move and make some lovely patterns!
Year 2 have had a Cricket taster session by a visiting coach from Durham County Cricket Club.
He left a flyer about our fun session and information about booking future sessions for families should they wish to further their cricket interest. Good time had by all!
Today Class 4 had Durham All Stars Cricket club work with them for a short taster session. The coach was super impressed with all of their cricket skills.
This week, work has begun on developing our ‘Secret Garden’.
Reception have made a fantastic bug hotel, they made clay minibeasts and went on a bug hunt!
Lots of fun had by all!
The reception children received a very special delivery this week.
We are hatching some duckling eggs, we get to care for them for two weeks before rehoming them with a very responsible owner in our local community.
Happy Hatching!
During the last school closure, 5 children were chosen to be lockdown leaders.
Their task was to keep the children, still at school, fit and active despite the limitations of lockdown. They decided the best way to do this was to organise a series of competitions.
They decided to organise a timed run, an obstacle course and a football skills course for the whole school to complete.
All three events were a great success and the lockdown leaders were awarded £20 worth of gift vouchers each by South Tyneside Sport Network last week. Well done lockdown leaders!
Class 4 have loved their Design Technology project this term – to make their own wheeled vehicle.
From investigating other wheeled vehicles, leaning the names of the parts, making a prototype and designing to making, painting and finally racing them!
Over the last few weeks Year 4 have been creating Egyptian Death Masks! Today was the papier-mache stage.
Lots of mess, laughter, squeals of sloppiness and more laughter later and we have 22 masks drying and ready to paint after half term!
Class 9 took part in the cream cracker challenge this week. We tried to eat 3 crackers in one minute. We had many children very confident that they’d succeed but of course they found it impossible.
The methods ranged from eating little bits, eating more than one, shoving as much as possible in and breaking them but none succeeded.
We then looked at the science involved – saliva, enzymes and their role in the digestive system.
