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!
This week Year 3 attended the Rugby Tournament organised by Boldon School. All 3 teams played incredibly well, showed great skill and sportsmanship, and we had teams place 4th, 2nd and 1st!
As part of year 5’s PSHE lesson today the children were given Scrabble tiles to make words. The main focus was to see who worked ‘collaboratively’. It was interesting to see who made their own and who worked as a team to make a Scrabble board. We discussed how to improve and work collaboratively and the children began to make group boards by using each other’s alphabet tiles.
The Year One children this term are following a topic theme called “Going Wild”. In art we have had to explore the technique of printing. We found a little out about Andy Warhol, especially his series of work called “endangered species”. We then explored animal patterns and tried sketching out some of our own. We picked our favourite pattern and then transferred it on to styrofoam to make our own printing tile. We finished our work by exploring how to use a brayer and printing ink to create our own printed patterns. The children had a lot of fun and were amazed at their creations.
Our star of the week assembly went on twice as long as usual this week as there has been so much amazing work and sporting events happening. Children received certificates for taking part in a rugby competition (we won!) and also some children received their pen license’s. Well done everyone!
For Arts Week we have been using the text ‘It’s Up to Us’ as a focus, each year group picking a different element of environmental issues to draw attention to with their artwork. Children in Year 3 sketched polar bears.
First, the sketched them out and coloured them, before painting a background using water colours. Finally, they will draw their polar bears again and cut them out to place on the watercolour background. We can’t wait to see the final results!
Class 3 took advantage of the lovely weather this afternoon. We took our art lesson outdoors, where we sketched different animal patterns as part of our ‘Going Wild’ topic.
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