Shark-tastic Learning at West Boldon!

5th June 2025Miss K. Wilkinson

This week, our Afterschool LEGO League Club for Years 1, 2 & 4 at West Boldon Primary had a FIN-tastic opportunity to dive deep into the world of marine life!

We were thrilled to welcome Jillian Morris, the founder of @Sharks4Kids, for an exciting video call where our young ocean explorers learned all about sharks, their importance to the ecosystem, and how we can help protect our oceans.

The knowledge and inspiration from this session are now being brought to life in our LEGO League Submerged challenge—where our teams are designing builds based on what they’ve learned about ocean conservation.

Thank you, Sharks4Kids, for helping our children become ocean advocates—one LEGO brick at a time!

Year 1/2 get a visit from OpenZone

11th April 2025Miss K. Wilkinson

Last week, our Year 1/2 students had an amazing time with the OpenZone exploring Lego Spike! They worked together to code, debug and build exciting projects, developing their teamwork and problem-solving skills along the way. It was fantastic to see their creativity and resilience in action!

A huge thank you to OpenZone for an inspiring hands-on experience! We can’t wait to apply what we’ve learned back in the classroom!

Year 1/2 visit from OpenZone

20th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

On Tuesday, Year 1/2 had a very special visit from Mrs C from the OpenZone at The Word in South Shields.

She brought with her some amazing robots and the children programmed them to do lots of different things. They used iPads to control the Bluebots, navigating them to different areas of the hall using BeeBot mats, then they programmed some Spheros to make them move, change speed and direction, and even change colour!

They had a fantastic day! Thank you Mrs C!

Class 6 News!

20th October 2023Miss K. Wilkinson

This half term Year 1/2’s Dimensions topic has been all about the media and broadcasting.

This week the children in Class 6 created their very own class news broadcast.

They chose their role as either news presenter (which involved presenting each news report to the camera), camera operator (which required a very steady hand!), or story researcher (which involved going around school to find out what is going on in other classes and writing a script).

Every single child in the class was involved in the finished product in some way. We definitely have some future broadcasters and reporters in the making! Well done Class 6!

Scratch Junior in Year 1

19th April 2023Miss K. Wilkinson

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.

Wordle!

15th March 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

One of Class 3’s weekly challenges is to use the iPads to solve simple ‘Wordle’ problems. We have loved using them alongside our friends.

Safer Internet Day 2022

11th February 2022Miss K. Wilkinson
Safer Internet Day logo

On Tuesday 8th February 2022, children in West Boldon Primary recognised Safer Internet Day.

In their PSHE lessons, they discussed this year’s theme: ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. Here are some thing they have been doing to recognise and learn about this important day.

 

Year 1

Year 1 listened to a story about Digiduck and how to behave kindly online and how to keep ourselves safe. They discussed and sorted out things we should and shouldn’t do online and pretended to be Digiduck and Wise_Owl to help others to know what to do or not do online.

 

 

 

Year 1 children taking part in their SID activity Year 1 children taking part in their SID activity Year 1's SID activity Digiduck and the Magic Castle
 

Year 2

Watch the video below to see Year 2 play Internet Traffic Light game for internet safety day. If they think an app/website is green (right for them) they can step forward twice, if they’re unsure (yellow) and if they think it is not right for then (red) they stand still.

​Children explained why they chose each traffic light for each app/website and how they can be safe online.

 

Year 3

Children in Year 3 thought about their online community, and their online world. They learned that their community refers to the people they know in real life, such as friends and family, and their world refers to the people they don’t know in real life, such as celebrities, footballers and Youtubers.

They wrote down 3 people from their community, and 2 people from their world – thinking for each about how they connect with these people online. They then talked about how we communicate with others in many different ways.

Year 3 children's work for SID Year 3 children's work for SID Year 3 children's work for SID Year 3 children's work for SID
 

Year 4

As part of Safer Internet Day Year 4 looked at how our actions and words can harm others.
We learned about norms and how our community has lots of norms to help us stay happy and healthy.

In small groups we created a norm that would help us stay safe on the internet. We then signed it to pledge that we would stick to it.

 

Year 6

Year 6 read Sita’s story and discussed how they would respond, if they were her, to the different scenarios. They thought about the best ways to keep safe, while also benefit the friendship.

Year 6 's activity for safer internet day Year 6 's activity for safer internet day Year 6 's activity for safer internet day

 

Year One @The Word

14th February 2020R Smith

Year One had a great time when they visited The Word.  We had a great time using the green screen technology and using the touch screen technology to explore publisher packages.