What a fabulous afternoon Class 4 had on Friday!
Following Thursday’s planning and pattern making lesson, the children used their self designed tiles to explore block printing.
The children were amazed at the effects and were really interested in playing with colour and overlaying just like the artist Andy Warhol who we have talked about.
Take a look at their amazing creations!
Year 1 had a wonderful afternoon crafting and toasting marshmallows in The Secret Garden.
These children have helped staff to develop this wonderful space over the past two years and now they can enjoy it for years to come at our school.
Class 4 took a trip down to the Secret Garden today to release our butterflies.
The children have been observing the changes from tiny caterpillar to chrysalis and then to butterfly over the past few weeks.
Class 3 were enlisted to rescue some endangered koala bears stuck up the trees, as part of our Steve Backshall inspired Commando Joe mission. We have been learning about the term ‘endangered’ so knew we needed to think carefully about how best to solve this problem.
As always they worked well as a team, demonstrating great communication skills, resilience and perseverance.
Year 1 had fun at Kirkley Hall Zoological Gardens this week. They had a tour of the zoo looking at all of the different animals, watch the meerkats at feeding time, got to touch a bearded dragon and a cockroach!
We kicked off our second annual Diversity Week this week at West Boldon, celebrating our differences and what makes us all unique and special.
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This year, children (with the help of their parents) took part in a competition. Each year group had a different project brief to fulfil and winners were chosen today as part of our special Diversity Day Celebration Assembly.
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Year Group |
Project Brief |
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Reception |
Draw an LQBTQ+ family. |
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Year 1 |
Design a West Boldon Pride Flag. |
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Year 2 |
Create a diversity and inclusion mascot for our school. |
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Year 3 |
Create a poster that promotes equality. |
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Year 4 |
Research the history of the Rainbow Pride Flag and present this how you like. |
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Year 5 |
Write an LGBTQ+ poem. |
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Year 6 |
Write a diary entry in the role of a professional footballer who has just come ‘out’. |
Here are some of the AMAZING projects we received as part of this, plus you can scroll down to see our incredible WINNERS!
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During Diversity Week, children also took part in a variety of PRIDE related activities in school. Year 3 learned all about the Rainbow Flag and the Progress Flag before collaging their own using mosaic squares and tissue paper, and Year 2 did some fantastic, bright, bold and beautiful colouring.
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We ended Diversity Week today by coming to school in bright and colourful clothes. Here are some of our children dressed in their brightest, boldest colours to celebrate our uniqueness and individuality!
There was a shocking discovery made in the allotment this week. Our caretaker, Brian found a spacecraft that had crash landed!
He asked if the Year 1 children could help him investigate what had happened and if there were any clues.
They became investigators and wrote a police report with facts and predictions about who may have been flying the craft. They will find out next week when they are introduced to our new literacy text.
Watch Brian’s message to the children here:
Spanish Club tonight for some of the Year 1 children.
The children learnt how to say “hello” ask someone what their name was and to give the reply “my name is…”. The children also learnt where Spain is and where some other Spanish speaking countries are across the world.
They did a great job and made some fabulous Spanish flags.
Year 1’s Commando Joe mission this week was to rescue some endangered animals. The children had to work as a team and communicate with each other, each taking on a important role. Amazing teamwork Class 3!
Class 3 have been making equal groups as part of our division unit in Mathematics. Some great independent number work from our young children!
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