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.
Class 4 have been completing our Computing work using a programme called Scratch Jr.
We followed instructions to learn about the different commands we could input and then had a try at creating our own set of instruction.
Some of the children have brought home some of the instruction cards as they’d love to try it out some more at home.
The programme ScratchJr can be downloaded free from your App Store – it only works on tablets however – not phones or computers.
If any of the children have a go I’d love to see their work.
‘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.
Children so kindly worked on the ‘Giving Project’ at break times, this half term, to make beautiful Easter cards, they made over 150 cards which were delivered to all staff, volunteers and students in our school, each class received one and the residents of the Sycamore Care Home in Boldon. They were all greatly received and the children should be very proud of themselves, it was very kind and thoughtful of them.
With the nicer weather approaching, we have taken part in the Great Big School Clean. Every year group has helped to litter pick around our school. Not only helping to improve the environment but also ensuring that our school grounds are a safe place to play and enjoy the upcoming sunshine!
Today, Years 3 and 4 went on a trip to the Great North Museum (Hancock) in Newcastle to take part in lots of different exciting activities related to animals and their habitats.
First, they completed a workshop called The Wild Escape, where they learned about all of the animals local to our area and the various habitats they live; uplands, lowlands, woodlands, seas and coasts. They had to choose an animal, think about how it had adapted to its environment and then think of how they could use their adaptations to escape!
Then, they were lucky enough to be one of the first school groups to visit MythQuest, which is a new interactive treasure hunt type activity in the museum, where children have to follow the clues, make decisions about what happens in the story, and collect rubbings on the way. All of the children worked so well in their teams and all achieved ‘Hero’ Status!
Finally, they received a lesson on biro art from Jane Lee McCracken which will become part of her online exhibition ‘Where did all the animals go?’
On Wednesday the Year 5 children went on a trip the Hancock Museum. They had great fun walking to the metro in the snow and looking around the museum. The children have been learning about the Egyptians so we’re fascinated by all of the artefacts and the real-life mummy.
As part of World Book Day the Year 5 children were inspired by Michael Morpurgo after watching and learning from him via Zoom. The children then had a go at drawing their own Butterfly Lion. We definitely have some future illustrator’s in our school!
