Our fabulous school as viewed by drone!

3rd May 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

Huge thank you to Mrs Goodwin’s dad for coming into school and creating this amazing drone footage. How amazing does the school look? it’s so nice to see all the children loving life.

Please feel free to share to show everyone what a fab place West Boldon is!

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ARC2 explore Africa!

25th April 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

The children in ARC2 have loved their topic all about Africa.

We have learnt all about the country Kenya, linked to our text “Lila and the Secret of the Rain”. We have learnt about compass points and used them to navigate around maps of the Savannah, learnt lots of facts about the “Big 5” African animals and classified animals in different ways. We even made smoothies using fruits that grow in Africa. We explored the features of a lions face, as well as the colour palette needed to help us make amazing paper mache lion masks.

Well done ARC2!

Year 5 visit to Eden Camp

24th April 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Eden Camp today!

A visit to the museum was a fabulous way to introduce our new Dimemsions topic. Everyone experienced what a street looked like during the Blitz and life on a submarine. We also learned more about evacuees, rationing and the great escape.

We bought a mini bus!

22nd April 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

More exciting times at West Boldon Primary… we bought a mini bus!

This will enable us to take children on far more trips and also keep the costs of these down for parents. We are also going to use it to pick up some of our taxied in children and this will reduce congestion on the streets around school.

 

Easter Egg Competition 2024

27th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

We absolutely loved all the entries in this year’s Easter egg competition.

The children enjoyed coming into the hall and Mandy and Christine had fun picking out the winners!

We will be announcing the winners and giving them their prizes in assembly tomorrow.

Holi Festival Artwork in ARC1

26th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

ARC 1 have been learning about the Hindu festival of colour, Holi. We learnt about some of the traditions and then made our own brightly coloured splatter paintings

Enhancing the teaching of RE

20th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

We have been enhancing our RE teaching this half term through the use of stories. Some year groups have been lucky enough to have a very special visitor, Elizabeth, who came to lead a workshop with each class.

Reception have had a storyteller in to tell the story of the Three Trees for RE. This version of the folktale ‘Three Tall Trees’ sensitively introduces EYFS children to the Easter story, whilst also placing it in context with the story of Jesus. Incorporating actions and call and response, pupils were given the opportunity to reflect on the meaning of the Easter story for Christians.

Year 3 have had the opportunity to go through the story of Palm Sunday with the storyteller to look at the entrance into Jerusalem from a disciples perspective. Whereas, Year 5 have discussed the events leading to and after the Last Supper.

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 7 Trip to Live Tales!

16th March 2024Miss K. Wilkinson

We had a brilliant day out on Wednesday and Class 7 were amazing representatives of our school.

We walked to the metro took the metro (some of us had never been on a metro) and then walked to the old fire station in Sunderland. It’s been turned into a space for drama and theatre.

There we took part in some drama and story telling games and activities before settling down to create a new story. The children had so many awesome ideas and we put them all on a magic interactive wall! Hannah our coach, helped us choose ideas and we created two characters, a setting and the first part of our story.

She then asked us to finished the story! We all worked so hard to write our own endings and they were awesome! As a surprise, there was an illustrator working there and she created an image of our characters 🥰

What a brilliant day out!!